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RUSH: I\u2019m getting lots of e-mail. People are frustrated as they can be over the slobbering media coverage today over the passing of Senator Kennedy. Folks, you\u2019re going to have to put up with it for a week. It\u2019s just the way it is. It shouldn\u2019t surprise any of you. But I think we need to look at Senator Kennedy in a number of ways. I think Senator Kennedy… It would serve us well to remember that Senator Kennedy is a perfect example of the redeeming aspect of liberalism. If a politician is liberal, and if the politician uses the government to take money from people who work and gives it to people who don\u2019t work, they are redeemed for every bad act on earth they commit. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s no more complicated than that. ‘Why is Kennedy being so lionized after what he said about Bork and these other things?\u2019 It\u2019s because he took money from people who worked, used the governor to do it, and gave the money to people who don\u2019t work, and that simple action is the redemption that all liberal politicians get — on earth anyway. It\u2019s sort of like a chit for any bad behavior that they engage in. That\u2019s how they are designed as compassionate and caring and saintly, virtuous. It\u2019s all because they support liberal policies. They take money, use the government to take money from people that work, give it to people who don\u2019t. It\u2019s that simple. Now, when you look at Ted Kennedy, I think particularly where we are as a nation today, I think that Kennedy\u2019s struggle to live is what should be lionized, not his politics, and not his work in the Senate, but his struggle to live. <\/p>\n

Will there be a single liberal come forward and embrace Senator Kennedy\u2019s example of seeking and securing the best medical care available? For those who truly respect and admire Ted Kennedy the man, I ask you to put politics aside today. Forget the words. Embrace the actions of Ted Kennedy. Learn from the way he chose to live and die. Why support the rationing of health care when Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, did not? Why not look at the example Ted Kennedy set and learn from that? Liberals will do Ted Kennedy, a man they love, a great disservice, if they turn his death into a metaphor for hypocrisy. It\u2019s not too late to make Senator Kennedy a symbol for life. Chappaquiddick and rationed health care are not how Ted Kennedy should be remembered. His own struggle to live is what should be lionized. <\/p>\n

How in the world can people who support rationed health care and everything that\u2019s in that monstrosity of a bill in the House of Representatives dare put Ted Kennedy\u2019s name on it? Ted Kennedy did not use any aspect of that health care legislation to try to survive. It would be an insult to the memory of Ted Kennedy to put his name on a bill that has rationed health care based on someone\u2019s age and the extent of their illness. Ted Kennedy didn\u2019t let any of that stand in his way, in his effort to live. His spirit was for life, and I think it would be a tremendous disservice. I\u2019m being dead serious here. I think it would be a tremendous disservice to come up with a health care bill that we have now in the House and that\u2019s floating around the Senate, the one that Obama\u2019s talking about, where the government is going to decide whether people like Ted Kennedy get to go through every aspect of survival that he did. <\/p>\n

Exercise their spirit! He had a spirit, he wanted to live, he did not want to die. Now, Obama has said, well, we can\u2019t look at that because costs just are too high. Looking at somebody\u2019s spirit and will to live… Well, Ted Kennedy\u2019s spirit was to live and he chose to exercise as many options as were available to him to prolong his life. And to put his name on a health care bill that denies that to other people and say, ‘We\u2019re doing this in his memory\u2019 is hypocrisy, and it would be insulting to his memory. I am dead serious about this. The United States government was never a ‘partner\u2019 in Ted Kennedy\u2019s death. Remember what Obama said. Obama said this week, ‘We are partners with God in decisions of life and death.\u2019 Remember him saying that? Well, I\u2019ll tell you this: The United States government was never a partner in Ted Kennedy\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

Ted Kennedy\u2019s life, if it stood for anything, was a thundering rejection of President Obama\u2019s statement to hundreds of rabbis in trying to recruit them to sell his public option: ‘We are God\u2019s partners in matters of life and death.\u2019 The US government was not a partner in Ted Kennedy\u2019s death and it should not be a partner in anybody else\u2019s death. As they say, you know, actions speak louder than words. The lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy, never invited any bureaucrats into the decision-making process regarding the medical care he received in his desperate and human and wholly admirable struggle to remain alive. Ted Kennedy\u2019s spirit was to live. And he didn\u2019t bring any bureaucrats in. And he didn\u2019t have any end-of-life counseling with people — at least, mandated by the government. You see, my friends, there are lessons to be learned on life, lessons to be learned in death. <\/p>\n

Senator Kennedy\u2019s last days and his death were a powerful manifestation of the survival instinct, the will and the spirit to live. God bestowed on each of us the miracle of life. It is a gift that is personal and it is priceless, and no government of ours should ever become a partner in snuffing out a life. Slavery was a sin because governments approved the imposition of a monetary value on a human being\u2019s life and they seized the right of individuals to be in charge of their own destiny. Rationing health care I think is a comparable sin because it imposes a value on human beings\u2019 life and it allows a human beings\u2019 life to become nothing more than a mere budget item, and in the process it denies the individual the right to determine their own destiny. We\u2019re not the property of the state. One of the great lessons of the United States of America is that the state is not God\u2019s partner in anything, much less matters of life and death. <\/p>\n

We are servants of God. The suggestion that such a partnership exists — ‘partnership with God in matters of life and death,\u2019 said President Obama. The suggestion that such a partnership exists is vulgar. It is a debasement of life, and it is itself un-American. The state\u2019s right to permit a value to be placed on a human being\u2019s life was the central issue of the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of lives, 500,000 lives, were lost to ensure forever the rejection of that inhumane practice, a practice in which states were a partner. One of God\u2019s many gifts is the miracle of life. The government does not have the right to take what God has gifted, and Ted Kennedy\u2019s passing reinforces that simple, self-evident and larger-than-life fact. Ted Kennedy\u2019s passing is a powerful reminder of the respect and dignity of the intensely personal will to live that we all possess. <\/p>\n

Ted Kennedy didn\u2019t have a death book. Ted Kennedy wasn\u2019t asked to say, ‘Is my life worth living?\u2019 His life was worth living, to him and his family. He did everything he could to survive it. The state was excluded from that part of Ted Kennedy\u2019s life, and it speaks well of the country and government Ted Kennedy was elected to serve that the state had nothing to do with his end. So placing his name on a health care bill in memoriam or using his name as a sympathy ploy to advance a health care bill that would deny Americans the choices Senator Kennedy had, is an insult and is supreme hypocrisy. I doubt that any of this will have any effect on anybody because passing the bill is what\u2019s first and foremost on the president\u2019s mind and on the Democrats\u2019 mind.<\/p>\n

And sadly, Senator Kennedy now becomes a pawn. His death becomes something they can use to facilitate a political aim. And they will be saying things and doing things, claiming, ‘This is what he wanted. This is what he inspired.\u2019 Well, he did not inspire a health care plan to deny people their own right to die, and seek to live, in their own way by their own choice. He didn\u2019t. He was not limited in any way. ‘But, Rush! But, Rush! We can\u2019t afford it for everybody. We can\u2019t afford it.\u2019 Ah! So we\u2019re going to have elites get one way of being treated and the rest of us another way? I thought it was a right. The point is: God\u2019s gift of life is priceless. We are not partners. No government is a partner with God in matters of life and death, and no government was a partner with God in Ted Kennedy\u2019s death. To put his name on this current health care bill would be to insult what he stood for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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