Ted Kennedy Is Dead. Can Big-Government Liberalism Be Far Behind?

Ted Kennedy is dead at 77.  The broadcast media are all over it.  We may see wall-to-wall coverage.  Of course, Kennedy's death after a battle with brain cancer was not unexpected.  There's been plenty of time to polish the obituaries.

There will be a concerted effort on the left to turn Kennedy's death into a "win one for the Gipper" cry on health care.  Of course they will try it.  It's all they've got.

And yet I think the American people have their eyes wide open at this moment.  They know who Kennedy was, and was not.  They know what Obamacare is, and is not.  They may be polite and hold their fire on Kennedy out of respect for the dead, but they haven't forgotten anything.

There will be plenty who line the streets out of respect for the Kennedy political dynasty and Ted Kennedy's prominent role in it.  Yet I can't shake the feeling that more than the life of Ted Kennedy has reached its end.

I am thinking about liberalism -- big government liberalism, to be precise.  In 2009, with Obama in the White House and liberal Democrats in control of both houses of Congress, big government liberalism has run into the rock hard wall of reality. 

Liberal Democrats have already run up the largest deficits in America's history.  The White House now projects a $9 TRILLION dollar deficit over the next 10 years.  That leaves no wiggle room to enact any more trillion-dollar bills. 

The big government liberal trifecta of heavily spend, heavily regulate, and heavily tax won't work anymore.  The states that do all three are failing.  Now that Democrats control Congress and the White House, the entire nation is failing.

Add to this Obama's systematic dismantling of our national security apparatus -- from cutting the funding of missile defense and other programs, to releasing terrorists captured on the battlefield, to threatening to prosecute CIA officers who kept America safe, to handing $900 millionto Palestinians who celebrated on 9/11, to abandoning Iraq, to doing nothing effective to stop either Iran or North Korea from perfecting their nuclear weapons capabilities -- the list goes on and on.  Sooner or later, America's luck will run out.  Obama is playing with fire after having cancelled our fire insurance.

There is a natural end to life when the body reaches its physical limits.  So, too, there is sometimes a natural end to failed political movements.

Big-government liberalism is reaching its natural limits.  Beyond this point lies national financial ruin, or outright despotism, or worse.  

There is a point at which a peaceful people grow tired of waking up to progressively worse news each day and begin to wonder whether their leaders are perhaps part of the problem.

Update:  If the health care bill is renamed after Kennedy, will it be called ChappaquiddiCare?

Comments

[benning]

"There will be a concerted effort on the left to turn Kennedy's death into a "win one for the Gipper" cry on health care. Of course they will try it. It's all they've got." - Yeah, that's what I figure, too. Another 'Wellstone Memorial Political Rally' moment for the 'loving' Libs. I said something similar on my blog.

[BigEdsBlog]

The Lion…Err Dog of the Senate.
“Teddy Kennedy was the weak kitten in the litter, never able to measure up to his brothers.
The accident at Chappaquiddick displayed his chronic immaturity. One problem Teddy has always had was keeping it in his pants – even when other people are around.”
- Cleo O’Donnell – wife of former Kennedy campaign aide.
Check out my take, and stick around for more good content.
http://libertarianhumor.com/2009/08/26/the-lion-err-dog-of-the-senate/

[KeithH]

I said it on my blog and I'll say it here... I pray for him and I hope he rests in peace. But if the Dems choose to use this as an opportunity to ram through legislation, if they plan to use his death for a political advantage... then they ought not complain when the other side points out why Kennedy should not be honored.

Instead of naming health care "reform" after him, how about we just name a bridge after him...

[kindred]

What an insult to our brave soldiers and their surviving families. The fact that a drunken bufoon like Ted Kennedy should actually want to be buried in a place of honor like Arlington sums up his egomaniacal sense of himself and his ignorance of reality.
His family's wealth came from illegal sales of booze, which is likened to illegal drug sales of pot and cocaine today. His family's arrogance toward the American people and its minorities caused much of the riff between the races we have today. Pres. Kennedy was certainly no model. His cowardice abandoned brave Cubans at the bay of pigs. He catapulted us into Vietnam. He taught Americans to self hate themselves while he and his family continued to multiply their wealth, and then urged legislation to make the American middle clas pay for the Kennedy guilt.
Teddy was not in the Senate to do good, but he was there to keep his family's money protected and continue the same self hating politics we know today as nationalist socialist liberalism. Its called control. Experts refer to it as soiciopathic. Unless Ted Kennedy's will provides that all of his assets go to poor minorities and his land estates go to public housing- his life was a lie and a hypocritical disgrace.