NICK GILLESPIE: Ted Kennedy and the Death (Hopefully) of an Era. “There is, buried deep within Kennedy’s legislative legacy, a different set of policies worth exhuming and examining, precisely because they were truly a break with the normal way of doing business in Washington. During the 1970s, Kennedy was instrumental in deregulating the interstate trucking industry and airline ticket prices, two innovations that have vastly improved the quality of life in America even as—or more precisely, because—they pushed power out of D.C. and into the pocketbooks of everyday Americans. We are incalculably richer and better off because something like actual prices replaced regulatory fiat in trucking and flying. Because they do not fit the Ted Kennedy narrative preferred by his admirers and detractors alike, these accomplishments rarely get mentioned in stories about the late senator. |
... but I have to give Nick Gillespie some real kudos for this in allowing me to find some good.
And what negative I'm going to say I'll put into bigger context thus: Kennedy, Bush, Clinton, Bush, (almost) Clinton, (Senator Kennedy for life), King Barack, ad nauseum describes nothing so much as a corrupt monarchy and rapidly ballooning and about to collapse banana republic.
Where have I gone wrong?
And what negative I'm going to say I'll put into bigger context thus: Kennedy, Bush, Clinton, Bush, (almost) Clinton, (Senator Kennedy for life), King Barack, ad nauseum describes nothing so much as a corrupt monarchy and rapidly ballooning and about to collapse banana republic.
Where have I gone wrong?
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