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- Ted Kennedy roundup: It's impossible to separate Kennedy's death from the politics of health-care reform; an interim successor could still be appointed in Massachusetts; Conservatives for Patients' Rights backs off until after Kennedy is laid to rest; his foreign policy legacy is also notable; who will be the Senate's next liberal lion; and guess who was the first Senator to have a web page.
- A suggestion for The Washington Post editorial page: try fact-checking the columns you have people write from the beginning instead of leaving it for your other columnists to do. It might help your readers better calibrate themselves to reality.
- There are two observations to make regarding professional jingo Glenn Beck's latest tirade. First, the conservative movement likely would not exist had there not been the threat of global communism, and second, the conservative movement bafflingly continues to sustain itself 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union by stoking fears of communist infiltrators. I can't decide if their disciplined obsessiveness is impressive or just pathetic.
- The strangest thing about prominent Republicans simultaneously praising and deriding federal stimulus dollars spent in their districts is that it's impossible to determine what they really believe and who their real constituents are. Does Mitch McConnell believe in Keynesian economics or is he just pandering to voters in Kentucky? And if he's pandering, then who is his audience in Washington when he's attacking the ARRA? Perhaps, like Chuck Grassley, McConnell just faces pressure (from whom? Isn't he the minority leader?) from the GOP to never deviate from the party line.
- And Finally: The Fox Business Network has been a failure but at least one Fox News anchor is willing to correct John McCain's B.S. on Senate rules.
--Mori Dinauer
