Here are last week's Council results, barely a day before this week's nominations get posted. I know that's the kind of timeliness and efficiency you've come to expect from MR, and I wouldn't dream of offering any less. Joshuapundit's exposition on the wide and wonderful ways that Kennedy degraded public discourse and public policy took top honors:

Senator Ted Kennedy could accurately be called the Godfather of our current immigration mess, starting with his role in creating and passing the Immigration Act of 1965, which radically changed the demographic face of America. It abolished the long standing quota system based on national origins that had regulated America's demographic composition based on the fair proportion of each group's existing presence in the US population... Kennedy assured the American people that immigration would remain at around 300,000 per year, as it was in 1965. It almost doubled the year after the bill was passed and is now running at well over a million legal immigrants per year.

Typical bait and switch. Kennedy probably would have approved of the left's increasingly obvious plan to smuggle in single payer health care under the umbrella of a public option. And by "approved" I mean "planned." And by "would have" I mean "did."

The runner up Council post was my interview with an auto industry insider who explained how Cash 4 Clunkers distorted the market, wiped out rebates, and cemented Japanese dominance. One of the runner up non-Council posts, from Big Hollywood's Leigh Scott, discussed the same "what's yours is ours and what's mine is mine" incompetence as a function of stoner ethics.

I can't wait to see how these geniuses justify their health care takeover now that the recess is over. If it's anything like how Reid was doing it during the recess, per the top non-Council post from the Las Vegas Review Journal, it's going to be entertaining:

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber's board members for a meet-'n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal's director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal. Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business."

The other two non-Council runner up posts, from Jerold Auerbach and Zenpundit respectively, discussed the centuries-old Muslim campaigns to wipe out Jews and the broader apocolyptic theologies that drive them. On the plus side, peace will be here just as soon as Israel stops building grocery stores in East Jerusalem. Obama promises!

References and previously after the jump...