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God Term-Limited Ted Kennedy. A shame there weren't enough opposition voters in Masshole to get him out of office sooner.

Today's funeral was ostentatious. The state-run media played their parts, giving this leftist, elected politician a King's sendoff.

Just listen to the programmed kids pushing health care.

But there was plenty of voices who spoke truth to Ted Kennedy's life of excesses. Some folks had fun.

Jim Treacher, on the Twitter:

Indeed, Joe, we could have once more seen Camelot Ascendant, were it not for Excalibur being denied to the Rightful Heir by the Lady in the Lake.

This hooker isn't breathing. Fortunately for me, my brothers were secular martyrs and I like to give away other people's money. #teddymath

He was called the Lion of the Senate. Not for his white mane or mighty roar, but because he mated without limits and killed without remorse.

From "Ask not what your country can do for you" to "Ask not why we're exploiting our grandkids to ask your country to do things for you."

Sarah Palin praying for her son in Iraq = Fundamentalist kookery. Ted's grandson praying for socialized medicine = Personal, private moment.

Doctor Zero, a rising blogger-star working Hot Air's Green Room, delivers some masterful parody...

The otherwise flawless execution of the funeral procession was disrupted only by a brief moment of confusion when the pall bearers assembled to carry the Senator’s casket into the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, where his body will lie in repose. According to event organizers, Kennedy’s will had originally asked for his longest-serving colleagues from the Senate to serve as pall bearers, but upon learning that several of these senators are Republicans, the will was hastily re-written to allow the governor of Massachusetts to select the pall bearers instead. A legal challenge was immediately referred to the Supreme Court. Fortunately for the restless crowds of mourners, the legal impasse was broken when an exasperated Michelle Obama grabbed the casket and carried it into the library by herself.

Deathploitation, or How We Renamed ObamaCare as "Do it for Ted Kennedy's Memory! (except that unfortunate incident in 1969, of course...)"

Oh, on Obamacare... Charles Krauthammer opines that ObamaCare is dead because of reality, not because of teabaggery...

What's killing the Obama health plan is not the Republicans, it's not the Blue Dogs, it isn't the rallies in the town meetings. It's numbers. It's reality. Obama says: "I'm going to expand coverage and reduce the cost." And the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, steps in and gives you numbers. It says: No, it will not reduce. It will increase our costs by $1 trillion.

Obama says: "Oh, yes, [cost might rise] in the first decade , and then it will decline." The CBO says no. There will be an increase in the deficit in the second decade. It's the numbers and the reality that is sinking Obamacare.

I'm betting that not even Ted Kennedy's name will save that bill.

Well, so we see Ted Kennedy finally exit stage left. Let's hope his last-minute plea for salvation works out well for him. But, Catholic funeral or not, he's got some 'splaining to do...

It is up to God to judge Senator Kennedy’s soul. We, as rational persons, must judge his actions, and his actions were not at all in line with one who values and carefully applies Church teaching on weighty matters. Ted Kennedy’s positions on a variety of issues have been a grave scandal for decades, and to honor this “catholic” champion of the culture of death with a Catholic funeral is unjust to those who have actually paid the price of fidelity. We now find out that President Obama will eulogize the Senator at his funeral—an indignity which, following on the heels of the Notre Dame fiasco, leaves faithful Catholics feeling sullied, desecrated and dehumanized by men who seem to look for opportunities to slap the Church in the face and do so with impunity simply because they have positions of power.

Abortion, stem cell research, all those things morally reprehensible to Catholics, he embraced, just like a good liberal should. That served him well during his life. We won't know how that will serve him afterlife, but let's hope he finds mercy. Because there's no waterboarding where he might wind up...

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