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Marked in Pgh on Monday, August 31, 2009 7:04:58 PM
Sen. Ted's death was delayed by private health care, without any government option. What a selfless, exemplary action by Old Ted. I'm being facetious, of course. The irony of Kennedy using these means of extending his life has turned Old Teddy into a saint suffering for a truth. We need to embrace (in a purely figurative way) this tubby, scurrilous degenerate and raise him to the level of sainthood as St. Ted, patron saint of private medical and the right to privacy between a patient and his or her own doctor (and by extension, his or her insurance company) under Roe.
Or could the last son of Camelot be a typical lying liberal, expecting to be the exception to the oppressive rules he demands the rest of us have to live and die by? Judging by the actions of the Kennedy clan, it's in his flabby genes (and jeans) to lie. He also needs a better lagacy than being nothing more than a spoiled child gone to seed.
If he was not a Senator or a Kennedy and had been hauled in front of a NICE review board, like the ones they have in Great Britain for their government option, the old war horse would have been told he had lived enough and it was time for the glue factory. True, in his younger days he was fit enough to swim a channel and avoid responsibility for the death of someone else. All that would be relative, but only to a point, according to Rahm's brother, Dr. Zeke. But Ted would simply not be worth rationing government funds on to be kept alive.
So he was right to take advantage of the smorgasbord of private insurance available exclusively for the privileged members of the U.S. Senate and House. Perhaps he saw the light, after a lifetime of trying to socialize medicine, and pursued his own options. What a guy. Was he inspiring, or aspring, to make himself an example of choice for the individual against liberally applied oppression? If only he had the same compassion for the lowly serfs and plebes he supposedly represents in Congress. Or was he simply a selfish a**? That would be up to him, his private health plan and his doctors; a situation he would have denied the rest of us in his best of all possible worlds.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it is just that we raise him to sainthood because he had the best of intentions, though the worst of all actions throughout his career. Well, when you're a progressively self-serving and insolated Stalinist statist, your holiness is only more acutely heightened by what you say than what you do. Satisfying that low threshold of intensions absolving him of actual responsibility and action; Old Teddy is now ready to be canonized by extending his own exulted life, but not ours. This results from his efforts to protect his right of privacy for his own convenience as set forth by Roe. It it's good enough for Chappaquiddick Ted, it's good enough for us.
I'm still facetious and only want him to be canonized by having his childish bombast stuffed in a cannon and shot to Hell to keep him company.