“I thought it may be too soon after Sen. Ted Kennedy’s passing for an honest analysis of his life. After watching the canonization of Kennedy this past week, though, I finally decided it’s never too early to tell the truth. Had the mainstream media offered a frank assessment, it would not be left to those like me, immune to the Kennedy mystique, to remind the forgetful of things we ought never forget. Sure, Kennedy served in the U.S. Senate for 46 years. To make a nearly 50-year career out of wh

Our elected officials and punditocracy are engaging in an orgy of nostalgia over the late Ted Kennedy, in part because he embodied their ideal: the Public-Figure-for-Life.Teddy was elected to the U.S. Senate to replace his brother when he was 29 and then spent almost 47 years in the Senate. You know the old joke about how the only thing that could cost Senator So-and-so reelection is being found with a dead girl or a live boy? Well, Senator Ted wound up with the blood of a dead girl on his hands

Here is my favorite paragraph from President Obama's eulogy for Ted Kennedy , We can still hear his voice bellowing through the Senate chamber, face reddened, fist pounding the podium, a veritable force of nature, in support of health care or workers' rights or civil rights. And yet, while his causes became deeply personal, his disagreements never did. While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that is not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was

When we last heard from our Miss David Brooks, he was all atwitter about emotional freaks in the Senate, what with their invasion of personal space and Republicans fondling his inner thigh and all. Now Brooksy is using Ted Kennedy Corpse (TKC) as a visit site to read more ]

The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) leaves several questions regarding the line of succession for his Senate seat.Members of the state delegation have been stockpiling money in preparation for a run at the state’s first open Senate seat since John Kerry (D) won his post in 1984.Related Posts:Boston Globe — Ted Kennedy, looking ahead, urges that Senate seat be filled quickly: Seeks law change for interim postPolitico: John Kerry on journalismReuters: U.S. senators consider options for aili