August 26, 2009
"The
legislation for which Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) will be remembered
is precisely the sort of top-down, centralized legislation that
needs to be jettisoned in the 21st century," writes
Reason's Nick Gillespie in an obituary for the
controversial liberal lion.
Yet "buried deep within Kennedy's legislative legacy [is] 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."
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