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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Who says God doesn't want universal health care?
Posted by Jill | 5:14 AM
Leave it to Ted Kennedy, that feisty old codger, to be the one person in America who beats brain cancer:
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain cancer is in remission and he is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day recess to spearhead healthcare reform, according to Democratic colleagues.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he spoke with Kennedy’s wife, Vicki, in the past few days and was told the 77-year-old lawmaker is “doing fine.”

Reid said Kennedy’s cancer is in remission and added that while the lawmaker is going through another regiment of treatment, the procedure “is not unusual.”

“This is something we expected,” he said.

Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has been mostly absent from the chamber for the past year, recovering in Florida and Massachusetts.

He is expected to lead a markup of highly anticipated health reform legislation in his first month back - one of the biggest bills of the year and a signature domestic initiative for President Obama.

Brain cancer? In REMISSION? This just never, ever happens. But with Ted Kennedy it has.

Note to all the Christofascist zombies in the Republican Party who think that health care for everyone is somehow anti-Christian: If God didn't want universal health care, he wouldn't have put Ted Kennedy's brain cancer into remission. Of course remission isn't cure, but we rarely hear remission used in the context of brain cancers.

So there.

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Blogger Distributorcap said...
all the best wishes and thoughts to the kennedy family

Anonymous Anonymous said...
What a disastrous day for those who are hoping for health care reform. Popular mythology notwithstanding, there's no one in Congress who has done more to block health care reform than the corrupt old drunk. If people would take off their rose-colored glasses and examine his record objectively, they'd find overwhelming evidence of corruption.

NO CURRENTLY SERVING MEMBER OF CONGRESS HAS TAKEN MORE MONEY FROM THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY THAN KENNEDY!!!

He's a crook, big-time crook.