Ted Kennedy is Confused. Very Confused.

Mark Levin notes Ted Kennedy's remarks to the NYT in the wake of his self-destruction in front of the American people, via Digital-Brown Pajamas.

Here's Ted Kennedy waxing nostalgic for a day when Republicans did not yet understand that hearings had become political:

Mr. Kennedy said the nomination process, and particularly the hearings, had "turned into a political campaign," and that the White House had proved increasingly skilled in turning that to its advantage.

Here's Ted Kennedy admitting that serious matters of the judiciary are too complicated for the senate anyway:

"These issues are so sophisticated - half the Senate didn't know what the unitary presidency was, let alone the people of Boston," he said, referring to one of the legal theories that was a major focus of the hearings. "I'm sure we could have done better."

Here's Ted Kennedy projecting his own confusion onto the rest of the country:

"The whole process has become so politicized that I think the American people walk away more confused about the way these people stand."

Kennedy's staff needs to keep a tighter reign in him I think. He's wandering off. Next thing you know he will be admitting that the Senate knows little about national security either and lament that the Bush administration is catching on to the idea that the Iraq war has become a "political campaign."