Pushing National Healthcare with Senator Kennedy’s Corpse
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum Dicendum Est — In a Pig’s Ear.
In the biggest display of maudlin excess since — well, since “Jacko” died, but probably going back to the death of Elvis — the hive started shrieking that the health disaster bill should be renamed “Kennedy Care” and passed immediately in honor of a liar, a cad, a murderer, and a drunk who benefited handsomely for half a century because his brother had been president.
In the latest thoroughly typical demonstration of squashy sentiment and opportunism the Democrats and their trough-grubbing sycophants jumped right at the chance not to let an emotional “crisis” go to waste before Ted Kennedy’s body was cold on a gurney.
Gary Bauer notes: “From CBS to ABC, from CNN to MSNBC the message was the same: Conservatives and dissenting “Blue Dog” Democrats need to get out of the way and allow Big Government liberals, inspired by Kennedy’s heroic 15-month struggle, to give us government-run healthcare. Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the charge, saying, ‘Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration.’”
Balderdash. A useless, vicious, amoral man is dead at seventy-seven after a lifetime of excesses — and I don’t see how it can be described as “a heroic fifteen month struggle;” What’s heroic about having cancer, other than that he didn’t die of cirrohsis of the liver as many of us supposed he would eventually? Did he give up drinking, or something?
Are there “cowardly” struggles against cancer? We all know how Kennedy would have fared under what he was trying to foist on the rest of us and never intended for the elite to settle for. He would have gotten a handsome offer to go to sleep quietly under a doctor-induced overdose of morphine.
We have the best quality health care in the world; what we don’t have is the taxpayers paying all of the costs. We hear constant howls of how high our mortality rate is; if you add the number ten cause of death to our stats it makes a difference. That “disease?” Auto accidents. The same estimates do not filter out the high number of homicides among those who toil not, neither do they spin. This is another cost of life on the Welfare Plantation. Take murder and vehicular trauma out and we not only have the best health care in the world but our costs are lower.
What’s wrong with health “care” is government intervention since the Nineteen Forties, which got around government-imposed wage controls leading to the notion of “benefits” such as paying part of the doctors bills in lieu of forbidden raises.
The inchoate Socialized medicine propositions are disastrous from every angle, full of lost freedoms, exorbitant costs, and vast expansions of government, and they won’t lower the accident rate or keep gangs of assorted persuasions from killing each other, either.
The not even vaguely tragic death of Edward Kennedy has nothing to do with the merits of the case, not that I have ever been able to see any. If the fourteen per cent. of hard-core Liberals want to set up a monument to their “Liberal Lion” they may do anything they please with my blessing — so long as it does not involve passing legislation or spending taxpayer or fresh-printed Bernanke dollars for the purpose. Perhaps a vulgar display at Chappaquidick memorializing Mary Jo Kopechne’s swimming lesson. His favorite liquor provider might well contribute, mourning the passing of such a good customer.
I can’t put this better than Mr. Bauer did: “Nationalized healthcare, socialized medicine, or KennedyCare – whatever they want to call it – is a bad idea, and its defects have not been cured by the senator’s passing. No one who was against another Big Government power grab when Ted Kennedy was alive should now toss their principles out of the window and cave in just because he has passed away. In fact, the Left and their media shills should be ashamed of themselves for exploiting his death in such a crass and cynically partisan way.” Bravo, Mr. Bauer.
Over 70% of us don’t want anything to do with the government grabbing 16% of the economy when it can’t run a revenue-neutral postal service. We are already spending ruinous amounts to cover the health costs of millions of illegal “immigrants” and many more millions on welfare. Medicare is so far in the hole it will never be pulled out…unless the “Kennedy Care” bill passes and Medicare is gutted completely to the detriment of a large proportion of the citizenry that actually pays taxes. We don’t want to fund abortion, and we are firmly against the notion that oldsters must go in for mandatory — mandatory!!! — counseling every five years on the benefits of doctor-assisted suicide.
We are attempting to tell our representatives in Congress how we feel, but they are using every trick to defeat us. (See companion article.) We found out that Chet Edwards held a town hall meeting here, today. Gee, tough if you didn’t read the Bryan Daily Eagle in time to go.
The Dems are rightfully hoist by their own petard; Kennedy’s death is one less ultra-left-wing vote, and he cannot be replaced physically quickly due to legislation the Left forced through the Massachusetts legislature a while back when they wanted to prevent a Republican governor from replacing a senator. A special election must be called, and the estimate I saw indicates that Harry Reid will have to struggle along with only 59 votes for a while, poor fellow. This is pertinent because the legislation needed to be thrust through on greased wheels and parliamentary tricks before we the people found out the details or what this abomination would cost.
Too late, Statists. We know.
Every time figures come out they are worse than the previous estimates. When even the White House can’t come up with more sanguine estimates than that Obama is going to add nine trillion to the national debt, up two trillion from their guess just weeks ago, who knows exactly how bad the tab would be? They’re supposed to be on his side! Such estimates are always far less than actual costs. Over twenty per cent. up already, and just wait until 2024.
The CBO says that a scant five years from now “Kennedy Care” or “Cirrhosis Care” or the “Obama Abortion” or whatever one wants to call it would raise the deficit by five billion dollars, which isn’t exactly snack money. The next year the costs would increase the deficit by forty billion. Why the difference? Because the giveaways aren’t slated to start until 2013.
Fifteen years from now the experts suppose that we will have scattered around over six-tenths of a trillion dollars, and the cream of the jest is that doesn’t even include the costs of the “Public Option” which will replace Medicare and Medicaid. Those are bad programs which waste staggering sums, but the PO will add a new use for a vulgarism ladies are not allowed to utter, indicating that one is upset.
To be trite, if you think health insurance is expensive now, wait until it is “free.” It won’t be free for you or for me. We’ll be paying for what we don’t want and don’t use and paying for untold millions who have no claim on tax dollars even by the lax definition of those who somehow found a “right” to healthcare under that tattered “living, breathing document” the rest of us thought was a straight-forward contract known as the Constitution.
Is there nothing nice I can say about Edward Kennedy?
Ted Kennedy’s record speaks for itself: Being expelled TWICE from Harvard for cheating, using family influence to keep him out of a war zone and halve a voluntary Army enlistment, cited four times for reckless driving while in law school, injured while driving drunk in 1964 (details sealed for twenty years), the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969, when Teddy got off with a suspended two month sentence for “leaving the scene of an accident,” with no penalty for leaving a conscious young woman trapped in the car, and a great many shennanigans involving liquor and scantily clad young females in public places. A charming episode more recently involving his nephew and cries of “Rape!”
Kennedy’s public career was as “distinguished” as his Army one, where he never rose above private during the two years of his four-year hitch Papa Joe, the bootlegger and fervent Nazi supporter, couldn’t get him out of. Infesting the Senate for 47 years Kennedy did little, but what he did was disastrous: he was responsible for one of the most deleterious of all policy changes, the deliberate flooding of the US with immigrants from third world countries, changing the face of America forever for his own ends. He worked constantly for amnesty for illegal “immigrants,” another way to skew the no-longer-existent “melting pot” and increase votes for leftwing policies. The man who brought us the Balkanization of the USA strove endlessly to ruin the level of medical care available here, as well.
A friend writes, “Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of ‘what’s right.’ What a pompous ass! He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than ‘great American.’ ‘A blonde in every pond’ is his motto. Let’s not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero – how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is.”
Part of what set me off so that I broke an ancient shibboleth is that our local rag ran three sentences as a side bar using the new adoring sobriquet of “the liberal lion,” without quotes or capitalization, showing how much in lockstep they are, and that they couldn’t think of anything nice to say about Ted Kennedy, either.
Above the fold the story is that local representative Chet Edwards having a town hall. Oops…was. Surprise…if you don’t take the paper (and most don’t, any more)…you didn’t know about it until too late. The details were released conveniently at a time and in such a way that few knew to attend, although the Sheriff’s Department was laid on to be there. The other banner is “DEBT NEWS DIRE, 17 T deficit feared by ’19.” Below the fold two bold headlines, “Layoffs part of Bryan budget plan,” and “Swine Flu could follow path of 1957 outbreak.” (A “pandemic that was briefly harsh but rarely fatal!” exclamation point mine.)
What ails America as revealed in those headlines is due to Ted Kennedy, fellow legislators from Massachusetts, and collectivists everywhere.
I’m half Irish, and I regard Kennedy as a disgrace to my ancient heritage. It’s enough to make me think “No Irish need apply” may not have been such a bad idea.
“Nil nisi bonum?” If I had chosen to do that this would have been a very short article.
Unrepentently yours,
Linda Brady Traynham
September 1, 2009
Linda Brady Traynham
Linda Brady Traynham is a former editor and analytical project report writer and is now a Whiskey & Gunpowder field correspondent on a ranch in the Republic of Texas. She studied Counseling at Boston University and got her Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii.
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Hi, n9lhm! Whatcha up to, guy? I could have said, “Mr. Kennedy no doubt thought the tragic death of Miss Kopechne could have been avoided had abortion been ‘legal, safe, and rare,’” but there is no point in traducing the poor young woman further after all these years. That’s what we all thought at the time, and still do…a better moral to teach our daughters is that morals count. Don’t go around having affairs with politicians of any ilk.
Can’t we just leave this behind us?! I already have. I’m off pounding the deficits and speculating on when everything will unravel.
Linda
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Gary: I seem to be out of the ‘net! AOL is still doing the “loading error” thing that won’t let me reply or forward, and all afternoon g-mail has been caroling that there is a “temporary server error” and won’t open! D’you suppose something I said upset the alphabet soup guys?! Will be back when my window to the world opens again. Linda
Wonderful article.
I love your style. We need these things said and read before it is too late.
I am an australian …… hanging off the bottom down under ……. i am a long way from any real world …. like most of us.
I appreciate real information where ever i see it
Thank you for your thoughts on Kennedy……. makes sense.
Great article! You and I have similar thinking. While it could be said that Ms. Kopeckney was no saint, well, heck, in the first place she was a Democrat, I’d bet other options were open to her for a ride. That being the case, guess who’ll be the one greeting ‘ol Tubby Ted at the gates of Hell!
At least Kennedy’s death got the MSN off their fawning over Micheal Jackson, geez! I just hope this doesn’t last as long.
Dear Joe Blowe:
Thanks for the great compliments.
I hope you and other readers know what it means to get feedback from you. Writing for W&G is already more fun than a bottle-fed goat doeling but a letter like yours adds a real glow to my day. If you’ve never been around a baby goat girl who thinks you’re her “Maaaah!” it is a rare treat and constant entertainment.
Gary’s got a big back log I hope he’ll find room for soon. I’m a mixed blessing, since I write at least one article a day!
Thanks again, and I’ll keep saying what I think even when I have to break my most firm private rule of “If you can’t say something nice don’t say ANYTHING.”
Linda
Dear Greg:
Thank you very much for writing! As I just told Joe, comments add a real sparkle to the enormous pleasure I take from researching and writing. My darling Charles says–only half joking–that he’s looking forward to the day when the Internet is shut down because he’ll get his lady’s full attention back. Believe me when I say I’m not complaining, but MDC is right…I frequently spend a dozen hours a day researching. The WRITING part is easy! I’d rather write than have fish and chips and a Foster’s.
Have you time to tell me what part of Aus-try-lyuh you’re from? Are you on a cattle station, or in Mel’bun, or…breathless hope…working in an opal mine?!
If you ask Gary for my e-mail address he’ll give it to you, or if you search the archives you’ll find it.
Life is so funny…if my father hadn’t collapsed over his desk with TB he had planned on emigrating to Australia or New Zealand after he finished 20 years in the Navy. He always said Australia and New Zealand were the most beautiful places he ever saw. That’s how we ended up in Texas raising cows, and after a life spent following my Army husband around, I returned to the ranch and take just as much pleasure as Daddy did in the animals and the “work” we do. That’s why I hope you, too, live somewhere the air blows clean, with good, honest livestock. Oops! The guys are calling to tell me they managed to get the rear end back in one of the trucks!
Write and tell all?
Linda
Dear Windrider:
Thank you, too, for a great letter! I’m feeling very indulged, right now, with so many to answer.
Yes, I imagine poor, pretty, little Mary Jo was dazzled by the Kennedy name and the Kennedy money and slushy, sentimental “ideals,” and she didn’t have any more chance than most ladies my age would have had at hers of resisting Paul Newman. She was in “Camelot” and thought she had a chance to be a princess. It seems pretty obvious that she was pregnant, and I have always felt that she chose that evening to discuss becoming a starry-eyed bride.
I think the Kennedy adulation is going to die down fairly quickly, particularly since public response to “pass health ‘care’ for Teddy” has bombed so. I’ll make you the same offer I do all my readers…if you want to discuss what’s going on, ask Gary for my address. I have just been reminded that it is “the very best part of the whole long day,” the time when I stop being an analyst and go sit on the terrace with my darling Charles, a glass of wine, and assorted goofy animals, watching the cows come up for their treats.
Thanks again,
Linda
Well said Linda, I agree with you wholeheartedly, too many bleeding hearts, will ruin the USA.
hi Linda, if ever someone needed to be ripped a new one, even posthumously, it was that drunken, despicable, murderous sack of animated socialist lard we are finally rid of. that the country has been gripped in funereal frenzy since his long overdue demise is downright embarrassing to those of us who haven’t been sucked into the whirlpool of malodorous spin being generated by the controlled media. your every article is a delight but this one was especially tasty. regards, james
Ted Kennedy was an elitist that got away with manslaughter or murder . The same kind of elitist as Bush going to the front of the national guard list and then not showing up for duty. Or Dick Cheney with his constant Vietnam deferments and Limbaugh with a pimple on derriere that kept him safe at home. I have no problem with your bashing of the left , but please don’t forget the repukes are as much to blame for our current malaise as the Dems except for Ron Paul who is really a Libertarian.
Look at how Bush’s grand pappy helped the NAZI’s as well http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....ndworldwar
What a fantastic letter about the passing of Ted Kennedy. It was so well written I am almost embarrassed to even make a comment. It is a pleasure to read something from someone who knows what they want to say and say it…perfectly. I have often wondered how much better our world would have been if Mary Jo had lived and Kennedy had died in a heroic attempt to save her life. Congratulations on living in the Republic of Texas. I spent four Air Force years “defending Texas” from a possible air attack from the South. As it turns out, the threat was/is a ground instead of an air one.
Again, kudos to your literary skills. Now that I know where to read what you say, I’ll be back.
DS
Dear Doug:
Thank you for expressing yourself well and politely.
I agree with you that ALL should be held accountable for their behavior and that no one should be allowed to weasel out of obligations and duties because of money changing hands or family influence. Equal treatment before the law is supposed to mean just that.
In ordinary cases I try not to speak ill of others, but the push to sanctify Ted Kennedy as a means to pass disastrous legislation the current ruling powers want could not be ignored. Emotional blackmail is as reprehensible as any other sort.
My personal belief is that the ONLY legitimate purposes of government are to protect a nation’s borders and to protect the citizens from overt physical harm by others. I think a great place to have put the period was after “Congress shall pass no laws.” Please comment further if you are so inclined.
Linda Traynham
Dear wterns:
Thank you. I appreciate your thought and that you took time to send it to me. Kindness and charity are the rightful pursuit of those who are interested in them–and I, personally, have as kind a heart one-on-one as exists, I think. I have donated in various ways as generously as I could all my life.
For so long as it is legal we will continue to give all the excess the ranch produces to those in need. The difference is, we choose those who deserve assistance, they are happy, we get to see their joy, and their lives become better in other ways as they share the bounty. To cut a long tale very short, an elderly black woman now gets up eagerly every morning because she “has” to go take care of her six chickens and gather the eggs they lay! Before that she was depressed and worried about being old and poor in everything except family, that being a very great blessing. Others in their clan were given three dozen fat roosters a couple of months ago because THAT is still legal. I don’t have any facts about how they got the feathers off and the insides off, but we have heard what it means to them to know there is food for many meals in their freezers.
Churches and individuals did a wonderful job of taking care of their neighbors. Then the government got into the business and we were overrun with far more immigrants–legal and illegal–for political charity to work well. Government is very wasteful and calls the gifts of OUR labor “entitlements.” We never see those who benefit from our hard work, they aren’t grateful, and many of us resent it.
Still, in our neighborhoods and among our acquaintance I hope we can overcome our resentment and continue to play the good Samaritan. That is, do the easy, obvious kindness and go about our business. The Samaritan didn’t take that man on to raise or send his children to college, so to speak. He picked him up out of the ditch, bandaged his wounds, and got him a place to recover for a couple of days.
Remember when we–or the church ladies–took meals to families when there had been a birth or a death? The way everyone in the neighborhood took unofficial turns seeing that old Miss Minnie was looked in on daily and taken a plate of tasty “leftovers?” Sometimes they really were part of the ham someone cooked yesterday, but just as frequently the cake or casserole had been made just for her.
Let’s keep trying, in our own ways, to make a difference where we are, not as a matter of politics but just out of human kindness.
Thanks again,
Linda
Actually, I do want to pay for abortions-mandatory for drug users, welfare moms, and women who lost custody of a prior child. Then, mandatory sterilization. At least socialization could bring some sense to reproduction in the name of saving costs.
Karen! What a fierce little thing you are!
Ummm. MY problem is that I don’t believe much in mandatory anything, but you really tempt me with that one. As I told wterns in a reply the cyber demons appear to have eaten–thanks, wtern, and please write again–I feel that the only true functions of government are defending a nation’s borders and protecting the citizens from thugs of all ilk…and it is demonstrable that women who have lost custody of a prior child generally, although not always (there are abuses when the husband is rich and very well connected) have been abusive or neglectful of their children. Okay, I’ll agree that has merit although the chances that anyone will enact such a law are nil. I don’t think welfare child bearers should be sterilized primarily because I do not think there should be any welfare. With the drug users, I think it depends upon what they were using and what else they were doing. I don’t endanger my mind or my freedom by using drugs, but I have never thought that marijuana should be illegal. I abhor those who produce “crack” babies who will never be normal, poor little mites.
The problem, though, Karen, is that when we want to mandate OUR ideas of proper behavior and punishment we aren’t any better than the other side. Or “sides.”
I am not an anarchist, after all. Such a messy belief system. Of course I think that I am right about absolutely everything (don’t we all?!) but I am always willing to listen, just in case. True, I think the world would be a much better place if I were named Empress of the universe, but my idea of the few perfectly sensible laws needed to ensure order and punish murderers and thieves so thoroughly the crime rate would drop very rapidly would be someone else’s idea of a very cold, cruel world. Chuckle…can you imagine being able to agree with Nancy Pelosi on anything more complicated than what our blood types are, and then only if we all had lab reports in our hands?
I admire your character for writing as you did. You are thinking about how to solve a problem and you were willing to take whatever responses you get. Keep doing it, and you may well make a big difference in this world.
Linda Traynham
Since you are already the Empress of the known Universe, the world is already a better place, though it could be considerably better if more people (subjects) would actually LISTEN to what you say. Ah, but what else can we expect from those who have no concept of what it means to walk the Glory Road? Understanding? Nay! A sense of adventure? Nay again.
Lacking a willingness to look beyond their immediate boundaries, they will never know the joys of tilting at windmills or residing in the Royal Palace as the Consort of their beautiful Barsoomian Princess. There are wrongs to be righted, dragons to be slain and a magnificent Glory Road stretching in front of them that beckons all to strap on their sword. The few that answer that call will revel in the free will service of the Empress of the Known Universes.
Write on, Empress! Write on!
Oscar
Dear “O-scar:”
I don’t know who you think you’re fooling, Richard Marmo, but it didn’t deceive the hawk-eyed Super Editor who would know your style anywhere!
Ah, what a wonderful letter. I shall continue to write and hope to earn a similar encomium from someone who isn’t a frequent houseguest at the Rafter TS.
Soft chuckles…ah, would that it were so, dear friend, and we of the Texas Ring could walk the Glory Road together instead of slogging through the sticky swamps of statist slime and left wing larceny. Shall we cast Roy in the role of my faithful troll?! Hugs to you and Nelda
Okay, I think THIS the real thing, and I am awed and gratified. I’ll reproduce it rather than say “See Comment #…”
“What a fantastic letter about the passing of Ted Kennedy. It was so well written I am almost embarrassed to even make a comment. It is a pleasure to read something from someone who knows what they want to say and say it…perfectly. I have often wondered how much better our world would have been if Mary Jo had lived and Kennedy had died in a heroic attempt to save her life. Congratulations on living in the Republic of Texas. I spent four Air Force years “defending Texas” from a possible air attack from the South. As it turns out, the threat was/is a ground instead of an air one.
Again, kudos to your literary skills. Now that I know where to read what you say, I’ll be back.
DS”
Dear DS:
Thank you VERY much for…words fail me. That doesn’t happen very frequently, but your letter is like a present that is so marvelous every attempt to write a thank you note ends up sounding insincere.
Please DO become a regular in the bar, and if it isn’t too much to ask would you tell us (that is, those of us here in my little corner of the joint where I wipe up drink rings and pass out peanuts, not a “royal us”) what you’re doing now and why you aren’t living in the Republic? Were you at Del Rio? Abilene? Amarillo?
I loved your comment on “what if Mary Jo had been saved heroically and Teddy had died?” I never thought of that! It would, indeed, have been far better for the world and for the Kennedy family and even for Teddy. What a wasted life he had…
I obviously have to quit, DS, or I will ramble on at enormous length. Again, my very deep thanks. Honest, Gary, I didn’t write this and neither did Charles!
Linda
Dear James:
Again, I’m going to reproduce your great letter: “hi Linda, if ever someone needed to be ripped a new one, even posthumously, it was that drunken, despicable, murderous sack of animated socialist lard we are finally rid of. that the country has been gripped in funereal frenzy since his long overdue demise is downright embarrassing to those of us who haven’t been sucked into the whirlpool of malodorous spin being generated by the controlled media. your every article is a delight but this one was especially tasty. regards, james”
Rolling chuckles…Gary, I didn’t write THIS one either!
Much more mail like this and maybe we can carve out a little corner for those of us who love to play with words and ideas somewhere dim and dusky in the Whiskey Bar. Whoo-wee, you’d fit right in, James, having quite a way with words yourself! Y’all come on in, set raht down, an’ tell us ’bout yourself.
I think it would be fun if we could put together “A Shot Across the Bows,” just to keep the theme going, and that’s a mighty nice load of flaming pitch you lobbed out of your catapult!
Thanks for writing, and I’ll hope to hear from you again.
Cordially, Linda
Darn! That’s the problem with having a recognizable style! And I agree that the Glory Road is far superior to the sticky statist slime swamps (hereafter known as 4S) and left wing larceny (now condensed to LWL). Roy as your faithful troll! Hilarious laughter and coninuous rolling chuckles….why not! He’s a perfect fit for the role and we have to have someone to tote that parallel universe backpack!!
Hugs back to one and all. The Glory Road lives!!!!
Dang, you left this out…
Ted Kennedy’s Soviet Gambit
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/.....inson.html
Richard, you adorable nut…how many of our readers do you suppose are Robert Heinlein fans? I hope most of them! Hugs, Linda
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Whoa, hope you don’t write about me. I thought the opening paragraph was harsh, little did I know that was just the warmup.. I must say you were very clear in your sentiments and I definiatley did not misunderstand your points and feelings. Don’t know if to say well done or not. I never much cared for Senator Kennedy and always felt he road the coattials of his brothers and I never got past the Chappaquidick deal and dealings, so what ever he did after that I never paid much attention too. I just have never understood why the people of Massachusetts would keep him in office all these years.
He may be the poster boy for term limits.
renaming the turkey “kennedycare?” …….well, maybe, but lets be a little more inclusive. let’s call it the “kennedy-kopechne memorial healthcare act of 2009″ … a little long, but doesn’t it have a nice ring to it?
pax
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