With the American public overwhelmingly against ObamaCare, Democrats needed some way to repackage President Obama’s very bad bill. West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd came up with a simple solution, Use ObamaCare as a shroud to bury the recently departed Sen. Edward Kennedy. “In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.” If anything, the Kennedy association places added weight on an idea that is quickly sinking.
Byrd is taking a page from Kennedy history. After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson urged the congress to pass his Great Society legislation in honor of the fallen president. Conservative democratic opposition dissolved and the cycle of unsustainable entitlement programs began. Obama’s spending and its phenomenal debt will only hasten the bankruptcy of LBJ’s Great Society. It’s ironic that Seniors dependent on LBJ’s Medicare now fight to protect their entitlements from the cuts ObamaCare will cause it. It’s also ironic that a legislative tribute to a Kennedy started an unsustainable process that another Kennedy tribute will end.
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