The Day in 100 Seconds: What Teddy Would've Wanted

[tankwfw]

this was really sad

[the82spartans]

Sped Kennedy can't look down upon the debate because he's down below, smoking turds in hell for his sins.

Coincidence that BIG media forgets the name of one of his first victims:  Mary Jo Kapectne.

Maybe it was by design to help rinse off the former Senator?

[MaladaptiveCatalyst]

I support the consumption of high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils...mmm CONSUME BITCHES CONSUME...

[jimscamp]

Ted Kennedy has some explaining to do now!!!

[elitebanktyranny]

"The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe."

- Andrew Jackson, Proclamation to the people of Louisiana (9/21/1814)

[MaladaptiveCatalyst]

"Fuck it, Dude let's go bowling..."

-Walter Sobchak

[elitebanktyranny]

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

[MaladaptiveCatalyst]

"My fathah usedtah tell me ya weren't born wit much ofah brain, so ya bettah start usin' ya body.."

-Rocky Balboa

[elitebanktyranny]

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Colonel House, November 21, l933

[MaladaptiveCatalyst]

"Who is your daddy and what does he do?"

-Mr. John Kimbel

[brandonhansentx]

That's Detective John Kimbel.... he's a COP you IDIOT!!!!

[MaladaptiveCatalyst]

"WHEN THE FUCK DID WE GET ICECREAM!?"

-Winston

[smmm1968]

I agree with the last comment. Dying in the fall is way more devastating than dying in summer.

[JPPT1974]

RIP Ted 1932-2009! A legend!

[HateNeverCeasesHate]

Why don't we get more Bill Burton? I liked him in his first kertuffle with Fox Spins

[frostwolf1]

Why does every TPM video have "The Anti-Christ is here" on the top of the Related Videos list? Rofl...

[cwp91206]

Go to hell and eat shit forever, Teddy.

[sachaput]

Fox bimbo says he died at a bad time. Damn him!

[frostwolf1]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught that. How are people like that taken seriously enough for them to be given airtime?

[Maplesyrup41]

fuck faux news

not news at all

fuck them

[WKaliberr]

Teddy would have wanted Fox News to be destroyed

[KARStarla]

Proof of astroturf! OFFERED MONEY

Check it out, guy goes undercover

watch?v=R46X3J7ZFuk

:D

[YoungBudd]

1:41 WTF if he died on Nov then he would have a bigger impact than on Aug. Maybe I missing something here. Anyways Fox needs to hired ppl with a brain.

[p00lman]

Is Fox actually criticizing Kennedy for not dying at the most politically strategic time??????

[MelanieLouM]

Yep...heaven knows Teddy didn't have one...well towards the end of his life, anyway! >;)

[UrDoinItWrong]

Get out of here you FAT, UGLY, sadistic cunt. Nobody wants to hear your evil bullshit about a great man who just died.

Everyone, check out this stupid whore's silly-ass profile pic and be sure to laugh at her.

[MelanieLouM]

If you are trying to insult me, URDOINITWRONG!!! Hahahahahahahaha! ^_^

[Chewy240284]

How inconsiderate of Teddy not dying in september. It would have won over the rrepublicans, but now....

FUCK YOU FOX WHORE

[FalloutOfMe]

didnt ted get in a care accident when he was drunk and leave a girl to drown?

[MelanieLouM]

He got in a car accident and let a girl drown and used his pollitical connections to get away with it. I don't think it's a coincidence that he got brain cancer...karma is a bitch! ^_^

[wildwilly1111]

Yeah, what a scum bag!

Then he used is political connections for: * The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 * State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) * Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 (Americorps)  * The Civil Rights Act of 1964 * The Voting Rights Act of 1965 * Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 * Fair Housing Act of 1968 * Handicapped Children's Protection Act of 1986 (overturning a SCOTUS decision)

(TBC...)

[wildwilly1111]

# Ryan White Care Act of 1990 (AIDS care)

# Americans with Disability Act of '90

# Civil Rights Act of 1991

# Minority Health & Health Disparities Research & Education Act of 2000

# National & Community Service Trust Act of 1993 (Americorps)

# Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1990

# Military Child Care Act of 1989

# The WARN Act of 1988 (60 days notice prior to plant closings)

# Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act of 1986

# Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (vetoed by Reagan)

[wildwilly1111]

* Job Training Partnership Act of 1980 * Refugee Act of 1980 * Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980 * Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act - 1975 * Title IX of Education Amendments of '72 (bans sex discrimination by schools getting Fed $) * Establishment of Women, Infants & Childrens ("WIC") Nutrition Program at USDA * Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Act of 1970 * Older American Community Service Employment Act of 1970

[wildwilly1111]

* Occupational Safety & Health Administration Act of 1970 * The Voting Rights Act amendments of 1970 * The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 * The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (War on Poverty: Head Start, Job Corps) * The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996

Definitely a loser!

[wildwilly1111]

[Listed provided by The Seventh Sense - TinyURL mm7fpg - thanks, Ken!]

[MelanieLouM]

Yeah...I'm sure all that is a great comfort to Mary Jo's family after losing their only child to Teddy's carelessness. ^_^

[wildwilly1111]

I'm sure it's not - just getting the whole story out there.

[frostwolf1]

You've earned one internets for your artful rebuttal, sir.

[MelanieLouM]

...and he earns a one fingered salute from me! ^_^

[UrDoinItWrong]

That video has already been long flagged by cunts like you (who gives as fuck), and you are still just a typical mean callous wretched whore with a disgusting life partner who is equally fat and gross, I cant even tell who or what is man or woman in your profile pic. Enjoy being a typical fat loser republican psycho.

[MelanieLouM]

...and you enjoy being a pathetic, pot and pole smoking liberal mamas boy. ^_^

[aphexmandelbrot]

Stay classy, media.

[theastrusmega]

What a fucking cunt at the end of that video....

[SabuPtolemy]

Health care should be a basic human right in this country - not a privilege for the haves while the have-nots go without and croak from ills that could be treated.

Therefore health care should not first and foremost be an obscenely profitable business for some - it should provide affordable care for ALL of us if and when we need it.

This is yet another example of rampant Capitalism fucking regular people in the ass while a few top level pharma gangsters make out like bandits.

[MelanieLouM]

Who care what you think? I sure don't! Remember me?? >:)

[SabuPtolemy]

STFU you troglodyte bitch. Make yourself useful and go play in traffic!

[bossudude420]

SABUptolemy: you are correct about healthcare

[MelanieLouM]

Go join Teddy! >:P

[spookybella]

wow

[baronmorris]

Why is Health Care Reform Necessary?

[baronmorris]

I'm so glad you asked...

UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley has $744,232,068 in stock options. (Yes that's 744 million!) His 2007 pay $13.2 mil; 2008 $3.2 million.

[baronmorris]

CIGNA CEO Edward Hanway made $120million in last 5 years. Stock options valued at

$28,881,000.

[baronmorris]

Humana CEO Michael McCallister's 2007 salary was $10.3 mil. 2008, $1,017,308. His stock options total $60,865,194.

[spookybella]

wow

[baronmorris]

Yes. Wow is appropriate.

Who got the largest golden parachute in the history of corporate America, I wonder?

[baronmorris]

Why that would be William McGuire of UnitedHealth - 1.4 BILLION DOLLARS!

[baronmorris]

No shit! Whoa!

Now how many denied angiograms, MRI's & dialysis treatments does that take?

blood money!

[wervasdeferens]

baronmorris,

Keep informing,my friend.

The facts are on our side!

[Thinking4You]

Wait...did the whitehouse...replace robert gibs?

[baronmorris]

probly on vacay

[j0hnwi11iams]

Orrin Hatch is a corporate bitch.

[fishhead06]

Boy, could the woman at the end be anymore crass?

[sharinganclan213]

so we want the people who led to the financial crisis be the same people who fix healthcare? wait, what?

[j0hnwi11iams]

The people who created the crisis had decades to fix Healthcare and they did nothing. They went out of their way to turn the financial system into a casino so big shots could gamble with other people's money.

[p00lman]

Bush is trying to fix health care?

[voyeurdug]

Hatch can't pass up the opportunity to badmouth healthcare reform as, "socialized medicine," but other than that weaselly little stab, he wants to be apolitical. Creep.

[PharaohNineD]

Media quickly get out there make sure kill the health care reform with death of Kennedy, go go go!

[AtheistOnTheEdge]

You know who's really to blame in all this? Those lazy, good for nothing scientists who haven't invented robot doctors yet. When we have robot doctors, we'll have free healthcare for all.

[TheFolkUtopia]

Hey now Medically Enhanced Robots don't grow on trees!

[Intervene]

Fufill Health Care Reform.

What a load of shit. Fix the existing Health Care system.

Government intervention is not the way to go.

[PharaohNineD]

What is this government you speak of so distantly? You can't mean those people who were elected from a pool of ourselves could you?

When did they branch off from us and become independent? I shore is confused.

[gigantibyte]

How do you fix the Health Care system without government intervention?

[dennist3hmenace]

By allowing the free market to work, and getting the government out of the way.

[baronmorris]

Here are a few reasons why the free market will NOT work.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley has $744,232,068 in stock options! 2007 pay $13.2 mil; 2008 $3.2 mil.

CIGNA CEO Edward Hanway made $120million in last 5 years. Stock options valued at $28,881,000.

Humana CEO Michael McCallister's 2007 salary was $10.3 mil. 2008, $1,017,308. His stock options total $60,865,194.

That's blood money! people are fucking dying needlessly. REFORM NOW!

[dennist3hmenace]

I agree that no one's time is worth that much money, but it's not only health insurance CEOs earning that much. Look at goldman sachs or AIG.

Yes health care needs reform, but not govt control. Allow health insurance companies to compete inter-state. Its currently illegal for them to sell to another state.

Deregulation is the answer. More gov't involvement will only drive prices higher, and quality lower. There is a direct correlation between gov't spending on healthcare, and its price.

[1samothrace77]

who do you think wrote the anti-interstate buying of insurance?

Answer: insurance companies

[baronmorris]

I agree there's a correlation btwn gov't spending on health care & it's price, but I think it is an inverse relationship. Gov't takes the profit out. This isn't some new experiment. Universal Health Care is the happy norm in nearly 30 other industrialized countries, nearly all of which have lower infant mortality & higher life expectancy for lower cost & greater satisfaction. What we have & will continue to have (esp. in this now global health market) is the world's best specialist care.

peace:)

[wildwilly1111]

dennist3hmenace: "Look at goldman sachs or AIG. "

Yes, thank you - two more examples of the failure of the "free market".

[dennist3hmenace]

Hardly. In a real free market, those companies would have gone bankrupt instead of being bailed out by their gov't friends. Remember Obama voted FOR the bailout?

[wildwilly1111]

dennist3hmenace: "those companies would have gone bankrupt"

And taken down the US financial system with them (which almost happened). Followed by the rest of the free world. And we would be YouTubing right now with tin cans and strings...

[dennist3hmenace]

The companies going bankrupt is the solution. Trying to prop them up only makes the overall problem worse. Having large portions of the financial sector collapse would hurt, but there wouldn't be riots in the streets if a handful of bankers and stock traders lose their high risk investments.

Instead of solving the problem, and accepting the pain, we have only delayed the inevitable, and ensured a larger problem in the future. The solution will be the same, but the pain will be greater.

[wildwilly1111]

That ship sailed in the late 1980s and the early 2000s. And don't bet against riots - have you seen all the foaming at the mouth over what is really a small shift in the capitalist/socialist balance?

Only a mad ideologue would take us over the brink rather than walking us back carefully and then re-regulating prudently,

[dennist3hmenace]

Believing in the rule of law makes me a mad ideologue? Look friend, if a company makes bad bets, loses money, and can no longer operate without losing more money, it should go bankrupt. Refusing to allow this correction to happen only continues the error, making the required correction that much worse in the future.

Why are you defending these corporations that have robbed so many, and done so much harm? Why are you intent on keeping them around? Will you lose your money if AIG or GS goes down?

[wildwilly1111]

I don't defend those companies - I defend my own interests. Will I lose money? Have you no stocks, no mutual funds, no IRAs, no real estate?

The down side of unregulated capitalism has cost me dearly. Those companies grew too big, rapacious and intertwined for my good. I would see them go away - but not in a manner that further harms my prudent investments NOT in AIG or GS. I will prop them up until re-regulation makes them less threatening to me - then they can die..

[bigboss025]

lol @ dying in November, then you gonna get thousands of conspiracy theorists out there saying someone murder him on purpose.

[TiTSxxMcGEE]

i knew fox would bring that bull shit question up but i didn't know they'd do it AS tasteless as they did.

scum.

[squidb8]

1:41, HUH

[marniespeaks]

Kennedy Care

[Snowflake70]

Teddys seat can't be filled until January.....Passing it before his seat is filled would be LOW......Very Low.... and not fitting his memory to pass a bill in his absence- or the absence of his replacement.

[wildwilly1111]

If the MA legislature has the brains and intestinal fortitude we assumed when we elected them, they'll allow Gov. Patrick to appoint an interim replacement and we'll get this job done in the fall. That's what Teddy explicitly requested.

[PersonalJesus348]

win one by passing SINGLE PAYER!

[route99]

Single payer should have been what the Democrats offered to begin with and then negotiated down to a strong public option.

Unfortunatley Pres. Obama tried to court to loonies who think he's Kenyan Communist who wants to slaughter the elderly. Like Barney Frank said there's no negotiating with the dining room table.

The 23% of folks who thought Bush was doing a heckuva job had their say for 8 years. It's time to move on.

[PersonalJesus348]

I hope that's the case because it just seemed like Obama didn't really care for a public health care system.

The Dems don't want it anymore than the republicans. There are a few Dems however that do deserve some recognition for their Single Payer efforts.

But Single Payer is the only affordable way to give America Health Care.

We have a similar program here in CA. Its going bankrupt because we need to take the profit i.e. the price increases out of health care.

[dhulnun80]

Here, here.

[route99]

I don't think Sen. Kennedy would have minded at all if his death helped refocus the nation about importance of health care reform. This was one of the pillars of his platform for the 47 years he was a senator.

It just goes to show that those who arguing we're moving too fast are for the status quo. This has been an major issue for over 4 decades and the pieces and players have remainded the same. How much slower must we act?

Pass the public option and let's stop the gridlock.

[Wisegeorge]

The selfless bastard couldn't wait until October? What a prick.

[robinvan1983]

Damn him!

[notscooter952]

...what?

[ProfMTH]

I love "The Day in 100 Seconds" series. Thanks for doing it.