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Yep, while we can mourn his passing, and feel for the family, we can also talk about these other things.

I would list the Immigration Act of 1965, which opened America to large numbers of immigrants from third world countries. At the time, Ted Kennedy was adamant that this new immigration law would not result in major changes to the American population. He said that American cities would not have large isolated immigrant communities. He said that we would not see enclaves of immigrants speaking other languages, and not assimilating. He said we would not see major changes in the predominantly European ethnic background of the population.

I would also add that we now “Bork” judicial nominees because of Ted’s example. At the time Reagan nominated Judge Bork to the Supreme Court, Ted Kennedy gave a forceful speech opposing Judge Bork. Many of us remember he shouted that Judge Bork’s America was a land of back alley abortions, yadda, yadda, yadda. And that set the stage for his nomination hearings to become a circus.