In yet another example of how liberals are ruled by emotion, some of them think I should now be willing to give some leeway on Obamacare because Ted Kennedy just died:

Democrats are hoping that Senator Ted Kennedy’s death will help breathe new life into health care reform.

Some believe the loss of Kennedy will bring a new spirit of bipartisanship to the issue, and at the very least change the tone of the debate, which has become downright nasty. Already, one group against reform has suspended its advertising out of respect for Kennedy.

That’s from the blog of CNN’s Jack Cafferty, who poses this exit question: “Can Senator Kennedy’s death revive the spirit of bipartisanship when it comes to health care reform?”

My answer: Why should it?

In fact, even setting aside the bullshit notion of bipartisanship, this strikes me as an absurd question. I’m supposed to abandon my position, or at least give a lot away,  because someone on the other side died?  Heck, why not argue that Kennedy’s death should make me more willing to register as a Democrat?

Then again, given past Republican cave-ins, and the example Cafferty cites of the organization that has suspended advertising, he may be on to something.

It is an intriguing idea, though, in one sense. I’m not sure if the math works, but . . . if other democratic senators offered to kill themselves in exchange for some “bipartisan” give-and-take, we’d only need 20 Democratic volunteers from states with Republican governors to off themselves before the resulting Republican appointments created a filibuster-proof Republican minority that could repeal all the enactments mad in the “spirit of cooperation” following all those suicides.