So Time Magazine has listed our own Teddy Kennedy one the Senate's most effective members?

No offense to Edward Moore Maximus, but yippee ki-yi-aay!
I mean this IS the oldest routine in Time's thick cliche-book going back to the days when Henry Luce pimped out his publishing empire on behalf of Tom Dewey.
It is entirely vapid lists like this that give Time it's entirely undeserved reputation for nonpartisanship.
They throw two liberal democrats, two conservative republicans and a some hopeless milksop some tasty bones and go right back to groveling before the thrones of the mighty.
Anyway, Time never celebrates the just nor the wise nor the righteous...they do worship power with an evangelical fervor....and have done so with vulgar unselfconsciousness since the nineteen twenties.
Teddy Kennedy is seen as being powerful, so therefore Time Magazine feels it can genuflect towards him.
I mean forget justice, progress, right or wrong, forget the eternal debate in this country...Teddy and McCain are big men and must be lauded for their magnitude...nothing else.

Sick
Demented
Typical....

(But hey congrats to Senator Kennedy, they ought to fear him, he knows what they are all about after all)