Looks like Ted Kennedy was against it before he was for it. Either that, or he was simply a hypocritical partisan hack.

Likely both, tho....

OK, maybe not "universal", but healthcare reform, anyhoo...

1971! thats just under FORTY F'N years ago!

why are fringers on both sides so against changing your mind after gaining new knowledge and growing up?

is that why some of you are against evolution because its a flip flop?

stupid!

nixon was right though back then.

and partisan hacks just hate on each other for no reason..

more stupid.

"newswithviews.com".... no doubt.

Like you don't slant shit your direction, Cork! HAha!

I figure ol Teddy opposed it because it was a Repub POTUS...Dem's couldn't swipe credit for it...

#8 american1st

i agree with you...

so why are you for republicans playing the same game?

are both democrat assfucks and republican asshats going to play the same game until america Really is destroyed... not some imaginary obama destruction, but real destruction due to massive political gridlock?

Kliff, I don't see mandating everyone buy insurance as addressing the real problem, which is the cost of medical services. Lower the costs, and more people could afford insurance. Tort reform, group plans and buying across state lines would lower the cost of insurance, yet they're NOT in the bills. I see the current bills more as a power grab than reform.

" I don't see mandating everyone buy insurance as addressing the real problem"

yes i understand...

but no bill is going to have what each party wants... its called compromise..

the bill should have some of what the dems want and what the repubs want...

and if the bill isnt' that way, then its up to the respective party to work toward that...

blocking it out right is silly.

=Like you don't slant shit your direction, Cork! HAha!

I try to slant shit away from me, mostly.

But if I had a news site and I wanted anyone to think it might be the least bit objective, I don't think I'd name it that.

Nothing wrong with having a view. Even if it's wrong...hhehe!

Kliff, I don't believe the Dems allowed any imput by the Reps because of their supermajority. Why would they? They tried cramming the healthcare thing down the throat of America before we could object, really. They needed slowed don, not stopped, and they're far from stopped.

With the loss of their supermajority, they might now allow some different views in.

back later...

I figure ol Teddy opposed it because it was a Repub POTUS...Dem's couldn't swipe credit for it...

#8 | Posted by American1st

Controlling both houses of Congress, the 1972 Presidential election coming up, and Richard Nixon's failing to end the Vietnam War as promised not working out so well .... Doubtful

There were literally hundreds of hours of Congressional hearings and meetings, most of them on cspan, where Repubs debated, put forth amendments, had those amendments voted on, some passed..... but they had no input?

Hilarious. They think if they keep repeating that, someone is going to believe them.

No, the Repub plan, and it was it must have seemed like a good idea to them at the time... for them if not the country, was to just say No and obstruct and not offer anything that wasn't laughed out of the CBO, in and effort to bring down the Pres.

We'll it didn't work, and if they don't want to be known as the GOTP, Grand Old Tea Party, they better show America that they can say Yes.

It's hard to imagine a better Senator for the right than Ted Kennedy. A bloviating, fat drunk who would have spent a big chunk of his life in prison had he run off the bridge anywhere else, a lightning rod for conservatives, and who--frankly--never got anything done.

And there are a lot more, just like him. Will the libbies ever wake up and realize that sending Reid and Byrd back to the Senate, time after time after time, is throwing away your primary vote? Hopefully not.

Massachusetts Senator Teddy Kennedy said just before his death one of the greatest mistakes he ever made was not supporting Nixon on health care.

So Kennedy admitted that partisanship kept him from supporting something that would do an enormous amount of good for the country.

There's a lesson there for today's Republicans.

Every idea Nixon ever had was stupid. That Kennedy realizes--after the fact--that he should have gone along, is only more evidence.

Ted Kennedy died for our healthcare sins.

#22...Bwahahahahah!! Funny Flag!

"Ted Kennedy died for our healthcare sins.
#22 | Posted by mysterytoy at 2010-01-30 03:52 PM"

#22...Bwahahahahah!! Funny Flag!
#23 | Posted by American1st at 2010-01-30 04:43 PM

Seriously?

Every idea Nixon ever had was stupid. That Kennedy realizes--after the fact--that he should have gone along, is only more evidence.
#21 | Posted by rightisright at 2010-01-30 12:12 PM

You see this post? This is funny. It's cleverly written, hits multiple targets and accurately calls out those who can't separate from partisanship.

Yes, I thought it was funny.(The obvious comparison to a theoretical savior, not the fact that he died. Although I'm not losing any sleep over that, either.) You got a problem with that?

Yes, I thought it was funny.(The obvious comparison to a theoretical savior, not the fact that he died. Although I'm not losing any sleep over that, either.) You got a problem with that?
#26 | Posted by American1st at 2010-01-31 09:05 AM

No, but as a "savior" Tedward makes no sense. If you compared him with those Frangelico monks I could see it.

Yeah, that maybe true, but when I read Mysterytoy's post, I had a mental image of a crane hoisting the fat fuck up onto a cross, only to have it crumble beneath his weight when slack came in the cable...

"Yeah, that maybe true, but when I read Mysterytoy's post, I had a mental image of a crane hoisting the fat fuck up onto a cross, only to have it crumble beneath his weight when slack came in the cable...
#28 | Posted by American1st at 2010-01-31 10:47 PM"

with a sign which reads "King Nothing"
#29 | Posted by American1st at 2010-01-31 10:49 PM

That's the way I feel about Dick Cheney - his gay daughter wasn't even welcome to marriage because of political fear. Such a weak-minded soulless anti-American Christian bigot. I'm certain he has Palestinian organs keeping up his Frankensteinesque visage.