"This is worse than being assassinated, or leaving a young 'campaign aide' to drown in a car," said a visibly sad Joseph Kennedy III after his stinging election defeat of 45% to his opponents 55%. "I was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi," Kennedy added. "People told me that would be a good thing." ..................... The dynasty is a dinosaur. Camelot finally went out of business, much like the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men. “This is how the world ends/ Not with a bang, but a whimper.” The last of the Kennedys, carrying the name of the patriarch of the clan, Joseph P. Kennedy, went down hard to, of all people, Sen. Ed Markey, who spent his entire lackluster career aping the Kennedys, but now ends their 75-year reign over Massachusetts politics. Markey rolled in the state’s upper-middle-class lily-white suburbs. Kennedy was reduced to carrying the cities, but not by nearly enough, as well as a few working-class towns i...