You are going to be hearing a lot about Senator Paul Wellstone’s funeral in the coming days.

Wellstone was beloved by Liberals in Minnesota and, from what we consistently hear, was truly a good man, kind to everyone we know who had any dealings with him.  He died in a plane crash, and former Vice President and presidential candidate Walter Mondale tried to replace Wellstone in a special election. 

Democrats turned Wellstone’s funeral into a highly-politicized campaign rally for Mondale…taking the opportunity to say again and again how a Democrat should replace Wellstone, and how that Democrat should be Mondale.  The public was aghast, because the funeral clearly was not for Wellstone, and was not about him, but was about the Democratic party’s threadbare agenda. 

Already, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have signaled they intend to do the same thing with Ted Kennedy’s funeral, to use that national attention to push their ramshackle, poorly conceived, socialist healthcare legislation through Congress, against the will of the American people. They are now calling it Kennedycare, instead of Obamacare, in hopes that rebranding this lot of prunes as “plums” will suddenly get people to scarf them down without thinking. 

We only hope cooler heads in the Kennedy family prevail and this does not happen — because it would be a national travesty.  It also has the potential to alienate a large swath of the country from the Democratic party, which we do not believe Pelosi and Reid realize.  There are not a lot of people in this world that we call stupid, because stupid is such an ugly word.  But Pelosi and Reid have repeatedly proved they are, indeed, stupid.  Reid’s contempt for his constituents and their intelligence is legendary — going so far as to tell reporters how glad he was the Capitol Visitors Center was built so he no longer had to smell the tourists who invaded the capital each summer.  Pelosi typically has no idea what she’s talking about, and will direct insult voters, on camera, whenever the opportunity arise — she also makes videos in her office where she pretends various people have turned into cats. 

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Botox, if all indications are right, intend on grandstanding at Kennedy’s funeral, using it as a commercial for healthcare reform.  We have to admit we were surprised by Minnesotans strong adverse reaction to the Wellstone political rally/funeral.  It was a disgusting display, but we didn’t realize just HOW disgusted the voters would be.  It’s one of the key reasons there isn’t a Senator Mondale in Washington right now.  The backlash against Democrats’ behavior that day was strong. 

And Wellstone was little-known by most Americans…and yet that incident is being talked about now…while we are awaiting plans for what will be a funeral watched by many Americans, since just about everyone knew who Ted Kennedy was (regardless of what they thought of the corpulent, old, murdering spider…may Mary Jo Kopechne at last confront her killer). 

Pelosi and Reid see Kennedy’s death as a magical gift to save their poorly managed and unwanted healthcare reform agenda.  But, as always, these fools should be careful for what they wish for…because there is serious potential for all of this to blow up in their faces in ways they can’t seem to imagine.