Enough already. I do not need to add to it nor can I, as I can do neither saccharine nor sentimental very well. I have yet to hear the word "controversial" or "extreme Left-wing" or "limousine Liberal." If the guy was such a saintly historic figure, how come nobody told me before today? (It does sound as if he was kind to people in person, but I never thought much of his personal or political integrity, even if he had good manners.)
Not to be mean-spirited or anything - just being normal Yankee-grumpy. Now I see the Left is already politicizing his death. Never waste a crisis death. And now here it comes, just as Rush predicted a year ago (and was given hell for saying).
Addendum, from Mr. Tiger:
...Ted Kennedy did more to push American government and civil society toward a European social welfare model than any politician of the post-war era, with the possible exception of LBJ. By my reckoning, he left the country worse off than he found it, and to the moment of his death supported legislation that, if enacted, will make it a lot harder for the generation of my children to succeed, thrive, and reach for their own stars. So I will end on perhaps a churlish note: I wish Ted Kennedy had not led the life he did.
Addendum: Scott at Powerline thinks that Kennedy's "borking" of Bork was his most shameful action. After Mary Jo, I assume.
Mary Jo, and the chicks in the Georgetown pubs that he and Chris Dodd reportedly entertained constantly, were probably the only regular people he ever knew. But "he cared" - always with other peoples' money, of course.
But I am voluntarily off duty for news, so I will shut up.
