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JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: No trillion-dollar healthcare tribute for Kennedy. ?The pleas for politicos and?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: No trillion-dollar healthcare tribute for Kennedy. “The pleas for politicos and pundits to refrain from politicizing the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy are actually quite charming in their naivete. The so-called Last Lion of the U.S. Senate was not even dead half of a day when the politicking began. Proponents of Democratic efforts to reform overhaul America?s troubled healthcare system quickly began urging passage as a tribute to Kennedy?s lifelong efforts on the issue. . . . A new survey from Public Opinion Strategies finds that just 25 percent of Americans favor President Obama?s proposals, comparable to the scant 23 percent who favored Bill Clinton?s healthcare plan in 1994 as it imploded. Betting markets put the odds of passage of a public option at just one in three. And in its lead editorial today, the Washington Post said the new budget deficit numbers mean the Obamacrats should start from scratch and develop a more affordable approach.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).