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Order and the Kennedy Legacy

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Paradox.    

Order is what pleases and comforts the American voting public, and the funeral ceremony for Ted Kennedy in Boston and in Arlington was handled with precision and a confident sense of control.  It is a national demonstration that what governs best governs with modesty and order.  The puzzle now in the minds of Ted Kennedy's allies in the Senate and the Obama administration is how to employ the Kennedy legacy as a foundation for reorganizing the healthcare debate and regaining control of the legislation.  This is a paradox.  The healthcare debate is disorderly just because it is disputatious and decentralized.  The funeral ceremony was an affirmation of the sacred center of American politics, the Arlington Cemetery.  Contradictions are not order.

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