THE WEEKEND ORGY OF NONSENSE REGARDING SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY

We had a thunderstorm and power failure late on Saturday, so I was spared the sight of the last vestige of stagecraft attending the burial of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Chivas).

First, how much did this overblown spectacle cost the American taxpayers? Let's calculate - the cost of flying the Senator's relatives and casket from Boston to Washington, D.C.? The cost of the motorcade? The cost of crowd control along the route and in front of the Capitol? The cost of the actual Arlington National Cemetery services? I don't honestly think that the Kennedy family paid for any of it. Up until the end of the services in Boston, I think the family footed the bill. Once we got into motorcades and aircraft and motorcades in the nation's capitol - that's another story.

It was nausea-inducing to watch the odious Chris Matthews all but salivate as he proclaimed how wondrous the Kennedy brothers were. No mention of their womanizing, their cynical disregard of the women they married. Pathetic.

The Kennedy men were - to the last of them - libertine creatures who took who and what they wanted without regard to propriety. Nobody really buys that crap about "Camelot" except a few credulous fools who are, to our distress, provided with an on-air forum to spew their nonsense - like little Chrissie Matthews, he of the leg-tingles when President Barack Obama is near.

The two-hour power failure provided me with a quiet time to curl up with my cat and just enjoy the utter peace and quiet of a late Saturday afternoon. The seemingly neverending services for Senator Kennedy - a man who was not admired in my household EVER were no more by the time the power was restored..

The idea that the Democrats will cynically and unsuccessfully try to use the name of Senator Edward Moore Kennedy as a "hook" to ram through the horrid health care boondoggle they have in mind is offensive as hell.