The Kennedy Interest

The conventional wisdom seems to be that Caroline Kennedy is, as Nick Confessore puts it, “too big to fail” in her quest to succeed Hillary Clinton as the junior Senator from New York. Perhaps so. There is, of course, one person who could decide that it’s not in the public interest to bail-out the Kennedys. With just two phone calls – one to David Paterson, the other to Kennedy – Barack Obama could put an end to this and suggest that New York have, like, an election or something shocking like that…

But conventional wisdom also says Obama will do no such thing, not least, or perhaps largely, because he owes Clan Kennedy for Teddy’s early and enthusiastic endorsement of the upstart challenger to Queen Hillary’s throne. Maybe so, again. During the campaign Obama spent a lot of time lambasting the “special interests” that were, apparently, running and ruining Washington.