Ted Kennedy *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Aug 26 2009 at 7:45 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. I will say nothing.
UPDATE: Confederate Yankee, who is not given to speaking ill of the dead, felt that Kennedy had a significant enough impact on the American political scene that it is inappropriate not to speak the truth. Had I known about Kennedy’s treason during the Reagan years, I would have agreed right away.
In that vein, you may be interested in all these other posts about Kennedy:
The Anchoress: Ted Kennedy, Health Care & Purgatory
Legal Insurrection: Rush was Right.
Ed Morrissey: The Captain’s Usual Fair Fare
Michelle Malkin: De Profundis
Jim Geraghty: There but for the grace of God
Brutally Honest: “God’s mercy on the man”
John J. Miller: a rock star for liberals
Althouse: Left using death to justify Obamacare”?
GOP Leaders: Mourn his passing
Jazz Shaw: Kennedy, good and bad
Ed Driscoll: Another roundup
Kim Priestap: Also thinking about using Kennedy’s death for political advantage.
Lawmakers react
Is the dynasty finally over
UPDATE II: For those of you nice enough to have toddled over based on the trackback to Michlle Malkin, I have a more substantive post regarding a peripheral issue arising from Kennedy’s death here.
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I said a little, others have said much. Now the work begins trying to undo the damage of 40+ years of his ‘service’.
>>De mortuis nil nisi Barnum.
Indeed. But it is best to recall the vast quantity of which we will not speak, with precious little to balance it.
BW, weren’t you still a Lib in those days? You may not have believed it.
I’ll say it.
I hope the fat drunk died in every bit as much pain, terror, amd misery as Mary Jo Kopechne did.
I was taught to not speak ill of the dead especially at the time of their passing. If that were not the case, I would say the passing of such a cowardly, corrupt, treasonable hypocrite who epitomized the worst in Congress should go unnoticed and the grave unmarked. But I was taught not to speak ill of the dead especially at the time of their passing…
Ariel, that was well-not-said.
God might wish to have mercy on him, but I won’t.
“De mortuis nil nisi bonum”
And so…let silence prevail.
So now I steel myself for several days of mawkishness, platitudes and outright lies about this man.
Perhaps the Dems will reprise their great 2004 Paul Wellstone funeral debacle where they used a solemn occasion to sneer at and insult their opponents. “If the naysayers, fascists, racists and right-wing traitors had helped him pass healthcare reform, instead of fighting him every step of the way, Ted Kennedy would be alive today to continue carrying the torch passed down to him by his brothers John and Robert.”
Demagogue comes to mind. I think that’s being kind.