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Fifty years ago this week, Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon met in the first debate.

Unlike the “big discussion” of 1960, both fighting for the presidency before a national television audience, face-to-face meeting on 21 April 1947, took place outside the limelight media.

Regarding most impressed the audience this evening, long ago in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was the genuine friendship “between the two members of Congress freshman these savages different context and temperaments.

“It was difficult to say had come from rich and the family had its way up,” the debate moderator told his wife the night.

The same could be said of Capitol Hill’s current “Odd Couple,” Jack Ted Kennedy’s younger brother, and Utah Republican Orrin Hatch.

What binds the couple consists of a series of grim statistics. Cigarettes kill 400,000 Americans each year. Each year, 10 million Americans and youths under 18 without health insurance.

So why not for the payment of health insurance for children by increasing the cigarette tax?

That is the question - and challenge - the two senators rely on their colleagues in the Congress 105. Why not something that control over the killing of thousands of us to pay for something, what we save thousands?

In point of view and ideological Hatch prove Kennedy, Charles Dudley Warner’s Maxime on the political “strange bedfellows.”

Kennedy, 65, sports a rating of zero with the American Conservative Union. It is Massachusetts, a liberal-East with a capital “L.” Hatch, 63, Westerners east of Utah with an average of 100 percent curator of the hotel with a capital “C”

As legislators, the two men, as Richard Nixon wrote on itself and its Klassenkameradin 1947 House Jack Kennedy, left to right perfect “book charge.”

With the current rules of engagement policy on Capitol Hill, their ideological differences, furthermore, the other two in the gorges.

Instead, it has partners.

Kennedy and Hatch want Congress to adopt and Bill Clinton signed legislation to guarantee health coverage for the country of youth and finance that coverage with a 43 cents hike in the federal budget cigarette taxes.

The Deal, calls on both men.

For Kennedy, it provides medical care for 10 million children of working poor. Like last year, Kennedy box tree bill, with the average age of workers - including that of “existing conditions before” - for their health plans if they change or lose jobs, Hatch-Kennedy takes the career of Senator from Massachusetts-long commitment to Health.

For Hatch, the bill provides a couple of moral benefits.

First, they can not be regarded as Give-Away programme. Unlike the Clinton plan for health care, promises

“universal coverage” Hatch-Kennedy coverage objectives for children of working poor, those in an entire day on the job, do not contribute health insurance.

Secondly, it pays for these benefits with a “sin taxes.” For a growing number of Americans, smoking is now a real cold. To Hatch’s Mormon background, it is simply immoral.

As Ted Kennedy, the argument that the tax on cigarettes, migration would be “the most important step can be taken for 14 years in the country, more and more addicted to tobacco.” There is also an increase of billions of dollars to cover health costs for this country of 10 million uninsured young.

“I give Ted Kennedy, a quantity of appropriations for the move to the centre,” explains his strange bedfellow Hatch policies.

“I asked a little in the middle, too.” Christopher Matthews, chief of bureau in Washington Examiner’s is the host of “Hard Ball” at 5:30 hours on CNBC cable channel.