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AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE DEBATE

Introducing Your New Health Care Legislation, Now With Kennedy Cachet!

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Democrats have gone from 0-60 in their mastery of the important political skill of “subtly exploiting a Kennedy death.” Yesterday, you’ll recall, America’s most unsuccessful technically successful senator Harry Reid announced that, uhh yeah, we’re all acutely aware that Ted Kennedy’s death is going to help our chances of doing what we want with health care. Like many things in politics, this was not okay for him to say despite it being completely true! Anyway, now this new plan, naming the health care bill after Kennedy… to honor him… NOW THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE. MORE »