Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov–the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring–at least in part to advance his own political prospects.

Like my old near-neighbor Mike Barnes (D-Md.) who worked on behalf of the Sandinistas against his own government, don’t forger that Ted Kennedy, God have mercy on his soul, was effectively an enemy of the United States in foreign-political terms for much of his career. Like many on his side of the aisle, he was at times more comfortable with enemies of his country than his domestic opponents within it.

Someday, one of these clowns (probably a Republican, the feckless gits) will be indicted under the Logan Act, which would make the Volgi happy. Said act reads:

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Can you imagine what Cold Warrior Jack or McCarthy Staffer Bobby would have thought about this? Kennedy possessed some undoubted gifts, charm, manners, and a certain noblesse oblige, but in many ways he was the embodiment and vanguard of the transformation of the Democratic party from the party of the little guy to the party of the ideological leftist. Let us not hope that what good he did is interred with his bones and the evil lives on after him. But as Billy Shakes pointed out, that ain’t the way to bet.

Do read the whole article: it’s worse than you think. (Or remember.)

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.