Oh, no: Here comes “Open Borders For Teddy”
First, KennedyCare.
Next up: ShamnesTeddy.
Morton Kondracke is leading the charge:
Along with a health care reform bill, it would be a fitting tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) if Congress could act on his other great unfinished cause: immigration reform.
For all his liberal Democratic passion, Kennedy understood — as few of his colleagues seem to nowadays — the importance of working on a bipartisan basis to get legislation passed.
He worked with President George W. Bush to pass No Child Left Behind education reform and a Medicare prescription drug law, though he ultimately opposed the final bill as insufficiently generous.
Kennedy’s death undoubtedly will elicit calls to get health care reform legislation passed in his memory, but reforming the immigration system was also one of his major goals yet unreached…
…Obama campaigned in 2008 promising that comprehensive immigration reform would be on his first-year agenda, but during a trip to Mexico this month, he said it had to be put off until 2009, an election year.
The administration is certain to call for swift action on health care reform as a tribute to Kennedy. But it also should accelerate work on immigration reform in his name.
The mad rush to capitalize on Kennedy’s death is yet the latest manifestation of Rahm Emanuel’s decree to never allow a crisis to go to waste.
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Velveeta’s always nice.
Re: comment #42
I agree. In addition, Obama recently said he doesn’t “want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking”.
I couldn’t agree more. Kennedy, whether dead or alive, should be the last person to give input on immigration policy.
what about those ‘processed cheese food’ slices that come wrapped in cellophane?
They look like they could be used in the place of a fridge magnet.
Ah yes, the liberal’s cheeses. Velveeta, Cheese Whiz and Easy Cheese.
They are great for cheese racing.
I call the one in the can ‘shaving cheese’.
Only a Globalist would want open borders.
what about those ‘processed cheese food’ slices that come wrapped in cellophane?
I’m thinking it would be fun to have a competition to see how far removed from anything even resembling real cheese we can get with a “cheese product”. I’m sure we have a way to go yet.
Oh sure, let’s continue pushing the policies of a guy who was never correct on his assessments of the impacts of those policies. He said the 1965 immigration act wouldn’t change the ethnic balance of the nation. The 1986 amensty was 1 time and the government would seal the border in exchange. Wrong on both. What could possibly go wrong now? Let’s repeat the same mistakes.
The American public would have never agreed to these policies had the truth been known. So stop pushing them now. In fact, it’s time to reverse these horribly policies. Starting wiht the repeal of the 1965 immgiraiton act, followed by elimination of “birthright citizenship”.
On this I think there is a strong likelihood they may be giving themselves “enough rope” to create a Wellstone Memorial backlash effect. (And a Paris Hilton-saturation backlash effect.)
Even people who either liked him or who were apathetic have their point of “enough already”.
Although I think it would be shameful for Obama to follow the Wellstone Mem orator’s lead with a “let’s do this for Ted!!” rally-like eulogy, I’m kinda hoping he does. It would fire up the immediate, local audience (as with Wellstone) but it would open even more eyes – in disgust – amongst the American populace in general.
From Obama’s email to Elm Creek Smith…
The Socialist dream of equality of results and “Social[ist] Justice”.
A Eulogy to a traitor who tried to help the Communists win the Cold War at the same time that Reagan was trying to help the USA win.
Teddy was never more than a drunken playboy who neglegently killed a young woman (while his pregnant wife was at home) and supported Socialism/Communism throughout his life, even trying to undercut President Ronald Reagan.
And of course the MSM (Marxist Socialist Media) will sing his praises.
And of course the Socialists in congress will try to capitalize on his death in the hopes of passing more Socialist legislation.
“Lion of the Senate”???
Well, maybe.
Health Care for Teddy, from Care2
I prefer to think of Fat Ted as Lyin’ of the Senate.
On another topic: exactly how does tying Fat Ted to ObamaCare make sense?
As a senator, Fat Ted had A Number 1 healthcare and as a multi-millionaire living in a country that had the best private sector based medical system in the world, he could easily afford any medical procedure known to man that wasn’t covered by his health plan.
Fat Ted’s situation bore no resemblance to the government sponsored POS system currently being proposed, so to state that this system should be passed in memory of Fat Ted is the ultimate dose of hypocrisy.
But we’re talking socialists here, where hypocrisy du jour is a way of life.
*Mort should pull his head out of his rectal orafice once in a while to look around the country as the cancer that is illegal immigration slowly snuffs the life out of a once great nation.
*How this issue is resolved is the equivalent of a death match to me; Either we control the borders, enforce the laws, demagnetize for full self-deportation, and end the anchor baby insanity to save this greatest nation known to man, or we can grant amnesty so Mort can get that puzzled look on his face as our nation begins its’ certain death spiral; There is no middle ground!
Umm …
That would be the large increase in traffic I get to my blog every time I comment here, regardless of where or when I link.
How about trying to refute what I say instead of characterizing it as “blogspam”? I doubt you would have more credibility than I around here.
I don’t live on traffic, Thomas, but I do enjoy blogging and sharing the things I post on my blog. If you don’t like it, don’t click the link.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Thanks for the coverage, ACHefty.
Nice site. Keep up the good work!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Thanks, Rogue! Much appreciated!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
You only gave us all three recent links to your blog with your last three comments.
Can you comment some more so I can have even more opportunities to click on the link to your blog?
Hi Thomas – a coupla things; I’m a bit adverse to self-promotion myself, but I don’t hold it against folks who engage in it. I usally just pass on clicking.
Where I do think RWR is just a bit redundant is in including a second link. Anyone who has a website, blog, etc., they want to share can embed it in their handle when they post – as RWR already does. So the second link is unnecessary.
At any rate, it just a matter of clicking or not clicking , so to me it’s no biggee. My choice.
Let them bury Kennedy in Mexico, China, Africa and Ireland. There is enough of him to go around.
Immigration reform my arse. These Leftist traitors use the word Reform a lot don’t they? Child molestation can be renamed Child Care Reform to please Ruth Badder Ginsberg and her friends at the North American Man Boy Love Association in honor of Splash Kennedy.
I demand toll booths on the Sagamore and Bourne bridges – $100 each way – with all proceeds going to Los Angeles which is now bankrupt thanks to Ted’s open border policy, (and it would be wonderful just to see the “beautiful people” complaining).
On second thought…they renamed ObamaCare to KennedyCare so let’s get Los Angeles renamed Teddyville.
In the spirit of those patriotic Americans in California that wanted to name a new sewage treatment plant for President Bush (43), I’m all in favor of building the Ted Kennedy Prison for Drunk Drivers.
If we aren’t driving Oldsmobiles off of bridges in his honor, then we shouldn’t do anything else in his honor.
and/or Drunk Divers.
In 1964 the INSA bill was written by Ted Kennedy. During the debate on this Act, he said “…our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually…. Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset….”
Flat out Teddy lied. Amnesty for illegal aliens and Immigration reform Nationalized Health Care should beburried with him
Go for the perfecta America – throw in Obamacare along with Ted.
In the real world, that’s called a signature.
Michelle’s webmaster changes it to a link.
I’ve only provided one link this entire thread.
I don’t even know why I’m bothering with this. Go look at any comment I’ve left on any blog. I sign off every comment the exact same way, and have done so for three and a half years (since I registered the DNS name) – long before I started commenting here.
Grow up, man.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Just so you guys are aware, both links are provided dynamically by Michelle’s webmaster. The one at the top is provided in my registration information, and the one at the bottom is generated from the signature that I type.
Can you guys please get off this? Enough is enough already.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
How about no.
You are the one who is arrogantly promoting your blog on someone else’s blog. You are the one who repeatedly ends each and every comment with “RWR” as if we don’t know who the hell you are and another link to your blog after the first link to your blog that you created with your name. You spam this page three times with every comment. And then you blame it on someone else.
In the real world, your behavior is that of a narcissist.
In the blog world, your actions would be called blog spam.
Who are you – the blog police or somethin? Why do you care? I trust that our host Michelle is fully capable of addressing the issue if she thought it necessary. So I’ll leave to her; perhaps you should consider doing the same.
I’m someone with an opinion. Just like you. Have a good day.
I’m not arrogantly doing anything.
Like I said before, Michelle’s webmaster puts those links in, not me. All I do is what I do at every blog I comment on, and I’m not changing just because some idiot pipsqueak doesn’t like it.
For three and a half years, I’ve used the same sign-off on EVERY comment I’ve made. Hundreds of thousands of people have read my comments without issue. If you don’t like it, don’t click the link. I’m not even forcing you to read what I put here.
In case nobody told you, comment areas are places where bloggers do much of their promotion. I actually do less linking of my own posts than most do. I do link my party platform a lot because I believe it to be the way out of the crap we’re dealing with now, but I only link it when it’s appropriate to the discussion at hand.
I linked my Kennedy post earlier in the thread because this thread is about Kennedy … get it?
I will not be changing, so get used to it, or at least STFU. Your problem is not my problem, so get over it.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
For three and a half years, with two links to your blog on each comment, that must be thousands upon thousands of blog spaming in total … and you actually think you do less than most.
Wow. Just wow.
Thomas.
http://www.fightblogspam.com/
Thomas,
You wouldn’t know “blogspam” if it walked up and punched you in the nose.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
(P.S. – ZERO links provided by me in this comment … just so you know)