Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:17:51 PM
Writer Locutisprime on the Borg Perspective blog is worried about the Democrats turning Ted Kennedy into a liberal martyr and using his death to pass healthcare reform with a government option or a co-op-tional illusion (see).
Locutisprime writes:
"Now that he has died, watch for the two week wake and the revisiting of the Kennedy legacy as not seen in decades. Yes, they will attempt to make this into the end of Camelot, but more importantly, they will attempt to wrap their fallen hero in a blanket of modern day martyrdom. And what better tribute to the lion of the senate, than to push through the Obama health care reform bill, which will now become the Kennedy health care bill.
On the one hand, Obama's health care bill was all but dead as of yesterday, but that was yesterday. Now with Kennedy dead, the liberal left will see this as their chance to guilt trip America into buying this pig of a piece of legislation through the martyrdom of Ted Kennedy. And if we are not careful, those who remain in the senate will pass the bill along and attempt to claim that they have accomplished something for the American people and for the Kennedy legacy. I say no thank you. You can leave me out of it. And you can leave my kids out of it too. "
Let's be clear about this: on the issue of health care reform Kennedy was Barack Obama naked to the bone, unequivocally calling for a radical revolution to gut the present system and replace it with TOTALITARIAN MEDICINE: a tyrannical, oppressive, universal government run single payer system of inhumane, heartless, unconscionable rationing, long queuing lines for surgical procedures and socialist death panels for the elderly.
As for the Left turning Kennedy's demise into a glorious "martyrdom" for health care reform, his death was unrelated to his quest. He died from brain cancer, a degenerative disease, and didn't martyr or sacrifice his life for anything, let alone health care reform.
Moreover, Kennedy's death cannot be blamed on our health care system. As much as the Left would like to they can't use Kennedy's death (like they did Chris Reeve's on stem cell research) to shame our system by claiming that it somehow failed him. If it weren't for the current system, and the quality treatment he received, Kennedy would have died much sooner-shortly after his first attack-not living to see Barack Obama make it to the presidency. The 465 days that were added to Kennedy's long life are a tribute to American medicine, the best and most innovative in the world.