Witnessing the end of the Kennedy era is a little like seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Fall of the House of Kennedy

By Daniel Greenfield
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Witnessing the end of the Kennedy era is a little like seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall. The retirement of self-destructive Kennedy scion, Patrick Kennedy, will now mean that for the first time in a long time, there will be not a Kennedy in the Senate or in the House of Representatives. Patrick Kennedy, may have retired to dodge some larger scandal, though considering the scandals he has already been involved in, it’s hard to imagine what else there might be. Or he might simply be trying to protect his “legacyâ€