Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and Kirsten Powers on Ted Kennedy. Obama approval rating hits new lows in Economist poll and Gallup poll. Hopefully he won't be chairing the death panels: liberal congressman Pete Stark calls Blue Dog Democrats " brain dead." Michelle Malkin: Fake hate crime in Denver: Dems stand by smear, vandal's story gets weirder. Allahpundit: Hospital bed shortage shuts 4,000 pregnant British women out of maternity wards. James Piereson reviews Sam Tanenhaus's The Death of Conservatism.