Current Events 8/26/09:
-Written 8/25 at 11:30P.M. by Perankhscribe
Senator Kennedy passed away last night at the age of 77. Fortscribe
does not wish to speak ill of the dead; we do not wish to offer
meaningless praise to a man who in our view did much that we strongly
disagreed with. We will leave that to others. If you are a believer,
we suggest praying for his soul. When all is said and done, one day we
all must face this fate.
For now, for the rest of us, life
goes on. We know that liberals will try to use the emotion stirred by
this death to try to garner support for the health reform bill before
congress. Let us remember the real lessons from Senator Kennedy about
health care. Senator Kennedy chose to fight until the end with the
best medical care available. He did not settle with the pain pill, he
did not resign himself to euthanasia; he chose to manage his end of
life care as he saw fit. It was not a panel deciding whether or not
Kennedy was making responsible health care decisions, it was Senator
Kennedy and those he chose to listen to. Here at Fortscribe, we want
everyone to be able to have the same freedom. Nobody told Kennedy that
at the age of 77 he was too old to receive the best possible care.
Kennedy may have been a well respected senator, however this did not
entitle him to more freedom than the rest of us. His freedom to
participate in his health care decisions is what we want for all
Americans; this is why we will continue to OPPOSE Obama's health care
reform!
Interestingly, Senator Kennedy's own
political maneuvering will now work against the democrats. In 2004
Kennedy forced a revision in Massachusetts law to prevent Republican
governor Mitt Romney from appointing a Republican senator if then
Senator Kerry D-MA had won the election. Recently, Kennedy has
attempted to reverse this law as
news of his expected death from cancer threatened to remove the
60-senator democrat majority. The same 60-senator majority needed to
pass health care reform. Senator Kennedy failed to undo the special
election provision before his death. The law dictates that a special
election will be held to find Kennedy's replacement. The incongruity
of fate can be quite whimsical.
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