I should have something to say about the news that Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. I don’t. Some blogger I am.
I will, however, state (as I have before) that Sen. Kennedy is a great legislator, a giant figure in American history, and (professionally speaking) a terrific role model for my children. I wish that more of our Party’s prominent people were inspired to follow his example, to settle down to do the day to day work of legislating and negotiating, to be willing to sponsor bad legislation that is better than what it’s replacing, to compromise to achieve incremental benefits, to understand how what the government does and leaves undone affects people who didn’t inherit gazillions of dollars as well as those who did.
Senator Kennedy is, in my opinion, an argument for the existence of the Senate, and there aren’t a lot of those around. I hope he recovers and serves a good many more years, but even more, I hope that other Senators (perhaps from New York) become even better, and that he won’t be missed as much as I fear.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.