William Shakespeare said: “The evil that men do lives after them….”

Ordinarily we wouldn’t speak ill of the dead. But Shakespeare’s words ring all too true because the Left is shamelessly trying to exploit Senator Ted Kennedy’s death in an attempt to ram Obamacare down the throats of the American people.

And as patriotic Americans, we cannot let that happen.

Remember one thing, all the sentimental tributes you’re hearing on radio and television - the blubbering eulogies, the syrupy clichés, the sickening lies - don’t alter the hard fact that Ted Kennedy probably did more than any political figure of his generation to weaken and corrupt America. Someone has to remind them who Edward Moore Kennedy really was. Otherwise, a bunch of blind Democratic ideologues and weak-minded, sentimental Republicans will pass a so-called healthcare bill that will transform our great nation into a sick, socialist country. Political commentator Don Feder agrees. Feder - who lives in Massachusetts - wrote that he wished for a barf bag while driving around the city, listening to the fulsome tributes on local radio. As Feder put it:

“Known as the ‘liberal lion of the Senate,’ Edward M. Kennedy was a fitting symbol for his creed - intellectually flabby, detached from reality, arrogant, self-righteous, hypocritical and, ultimately, useless.” Are we doomed to listen to these sick encomiums for the rest of the summer and then watch a spooked Congress pass Obamacare in the fall?

A quick correction to your post, Erick. President Bush was the most recent President to speak before a joint session, not the first. I think there have been many instances, but probably the most famous (and the first one that comes to my mind) is FDR following Pearl Harbor, the “day which will live in infamy” speech.

That being said, it seems highly unusual to use a joint session for purely political purposes, and particularly galling considering the “right wing domestic terrorists” comment.

All we get out of him is talk talk talk (actually read read read)! He needs to shut his stinking pie hole and start to listen listen listen. Do we really think that will happen, heck no! This is his attempt to save face and make it seem like whatever watered down drivel Congress passes as “health care reform” was his idea.

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due in part to the mounting buyer’s remorse, the bully pulpit will be recognized for what it is - the bull***t pulpit.

I don’t think middle America is open to munching on excrement sandwiches any more!

…In which he vehemently and repeated attacks anyone who opposes Obamacare.

As it is, I think the Republicans should just boycott it - go around before the speech giving interviews explaining that giving a political policy-only speech to a joint session of Congress is unprecedented and totally outside of American tradition and propriety and that’s why they’re boycotting it.