“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, [...]

Andrew Sullivan notices this rather unfortunate use of Ted Kennedy’s death.

Mr Eugenides notes that maybe “they don’t shrink when you get them wet”.

In case you missed it Ted Kennedy is dead. As with the death of all controversial figures this has led to the typical “should we speak ill of the dead” debate. My position is that is perfectly ok to speak ill of the dead, so long as it is done tastefully. It requires a different [...]

Some in the US are under the delusion that JFK and Bobby Kennedy were “murdered by the right wing” when of course they were not.
Meanwhile, we find out about Ted Kennedy’s love of humour:

Jonah Goldberg writes a decent article which notes that JFK was by no means left-wing and that:

Hence one of the great ironies [...]

At the end of a tough day you just want to sit back, drink some whisky, don a silly hat, slap yourself in the face with a salmon and laugh. To that end we have the Devil making fun of a silly article in the Grauniad ( “Why do television advertisers think it’s OK [...]