As far as I can make out, no Conservative leader has had the courage or brains to dissent in the MSM from the tidal wave of drivel being poured out about Senator Edward Kennedy. Orrin Hatch has made a fool of himself - again.

So, as so often nowadays, the task of being serious devolves to the Blogosphere. Old Atlantic Lighthouse has risen to the challenge.

Ted Kennedy legacy median wages same 1973 August 26, 2009 is another of OAL's trademark briefing books. This one deals with Kennedy's historical significance:

Kennedy's legacy is 3rd world immigration that is bankrupting the country. He destroyed the greatest country that ever was. But he had many helpers...

Ted Sorensen ghost wrote Nation of Immigrants for Jack Kennedy. But it fed into their Irish Catholic resentment of Wasps. Their revenge are the above statistics. Obama has the same revenge need. Medicare, Social Security, safe communities all are being lost to immigration. That immigration comes from envy, resentment and hate. Same with affirmative action.

(We at VDARE.com are so accustomed to furiously patriotic Catholics, who could easily man the site with no other help, that it is useful to remember the alternative reaction exists.)

A usual, Old Atlantic Lighthouse's portfolio of links would adequately equip any Patriot to handle public discussion of this disastrous man

Included is an incisive essay from the British National Party's website: America's Greatest Traitor Dies by BNP News August 26,2009

Modern America's greatest traitor, Edward Kennedy, has died, after nearly destroying European America. He leaves behind a scandalous political career which was laced with lurid tales of drugs, sexual abuse and moral degeneracy

This is a very well informed discussion of Kennedy's

attempts to utterly destroy the country of his birth.

As I said this morning, this lie about the 1965 Immigration Act should be his epitaph:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset...Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia.

In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."

Death is no excuse.