Although I wish to see some kind of socialized medicine in this country, I confess a wicked glee in watching the Mammon-idol of Ted Kennedy's corpse crash into the altar of health care reform in the whited sepulchre of the NPR liberals. It's salutary in a way. The triumphalism that buoyed Bush after 9/11, and helped produce the crimes and omissions of his presidency, wasn't significantly deflated until well into 2004. Chokely could course-correct the much better Obama administration and its movement after just one year.