MORE ON KENNEDY.

I found RedState's statement on his cancer touching, and the comments even more so. "Cancer knows no ideology," read one. "May God bless and keep Senator Kennedy and his family."On the other side of the spectrum, Mike Lux digs deeper into Kennedy's political legacy than I did, and returns with an awe-inspiring list:

Kennedy has been a player in literally every major progressive accomplishment of my life, usually a major player, quite often the leading player: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, Legal Services, the War on Poverty, environmental legislation, OSHA, bringing down Richard Nixon on the Watergate investigations, ending the Vietnam War, stopping military aid to the Contras in Central America, the Martin Luther King holiday, stopping Robert Bork, the increases in the minimum wage, Family and Medical Leave, National Service, Motor Voter Act, S-CHIP. His fingerprints are on all of that legislation, and more. And even where he failed, on universal health care and labor law reform and stopping the Iraq war and other battles, he fought the good fight with passion and heart and courage. I hope like hell his fight is not ending, that he does not go gentle into that good night, because we need his passion and heart and courage in these cautious, careful times all the more.

Kennedy won't kick the bucket till he finally wins universal health care. Death will have to wait awhile. "Ah, sawry Mistah Reapah, we just need three mohr votes..."Update: And out in Crazytown, Michael Savage marked the occasion by playing songs from the Dead Kennedys. Keep it classy, Savage.