While we are discussing the "merits" of Ms. Kennedy's qualifications to represent NY in the US Senate, there are worse appointments. Let's look at Sen. Biden's seat in Deleware. The Gov. just appointed Ted Kauffman, a long time Biden aide, to serve for the next two years. In 2010 Kauffaman will step aside for, wait for it, Beau BIDEN, currenlty in Iraq. In Florida, it is expected that Sen. Martinez will step aside for a run by Jeb BUSH. The US Senate is becomming the House of Lords, with actual power!

The best editiorial that I have seen on the Kennedy travesty in NY was written by Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121803175.html

Am I insulted as a former NY resident? Sure I am. Is it because of her "pedigree"? No, we have had worse. It is her, and her kinds, sense of entitlement. At least Jeb Bush and Beau Biden have run for office before. Krauthammer ends his editiorial with,

"No lords or ladies here. If Princess Caroline wants a seat in the Senate, let her do it by election. There's one in 2010. To do it now by appointment on the basis of bloodline is an offense to the most minimal republicanism. Every state in the union is entitled to representation in the Senate. Camelot is not a state. "