Kennedy

From Dennis Gartman:

We fear that his death will now be used by those supporting socialized medicine as a rallying point. Sen. Kennedy… who will be called ad nausea the “Lion of the Senate” again and again and again over the course of the next several days as we prepare for his funeral… wanted socialized medicine as his crowning achievement to his otherwise nonillustrious career, and now there will be sympathy votes in its favour to “honour” him.

We are left to wonder how the family of Mary Jo Koepechne will remember Sen. Kennedy, as we wonder how the faculty and administration of Harvard will remember him, for he killed her and he was expelled from there. Sen. Kennedy continually voted for each and every tax increase he could during his career, arguing that the wealthy should be willing and able to pay greater and greater sums of money to their governments, while the Kennedy family money was protected in various trusts around the country from the vagaries of taxation.

All these things being said, Sen. Kennedy’s death brings socialized medicine one step closer, for the Congress will now feel obligated to pass it in his memory. That is the harsh political reality of his death this morning. We’ve nothing more to say on this topic; we’ve said quite enough and he did quite enough.