Posted on 02/05/2010 9:59:15 AM PST by Justaham
Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) election has been shown to be "a joke," the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said Thursday.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) castigated Brown for having pushed to be sworn in ahead of schedule to permanently fill the Senate seat left vacant by the congressman's father's death in August.
"Brown's whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama's appointment to the NLRB," Kennedy said Thursday.
Kennedy was referencing some Democrats' thoughts that Brown tried to bump up his swearing-in in order to give Republicans 41 votes, enough to filibuster the nomination of Craig Becker, a controversial nominee to join the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
"Seven out of ten of Brown's voters were labor households and he stressed that he was independent and while he was originally scheduled to be sworn in next week, they moved it up to today so he could cast his first vote, the most anti-labor, the most anti-what his constituents thought they were voting for when they voted for him," Kennedy said.
Brown, for his part, has denied trying to move up his nomination to block Becker's nomination.
"This is where he shows that when they need him, he's in the tank for the Republicans," Kennedy said.
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I wonder if he thinks the last polls out of Rhode Island are a joke to. He might just really be laughing at them to.
Scumbag to the max.
How dare he mistake Al Franken for Scott Brown.
From someone who has crawled into the bottle for Dems.
Patricia Lame Duck
Go ahead and spout off Patricia... you gonna have to find a job come November.
A JOB!!! A Kennedy working!! Oh the horrors!!!!
Well laugh your azz off druggie. You and your family are the jokes and have been for yeeeeeaaaarrrrssss.
Ted Kennedy was elected for Senate in a special election on November 6, 1962. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Massachusetts,_1962. He was sworn in the next day.
Now, shut up about being sworn in quickly.
Message to Pat Kennedy: Hey Mr Irrelevance STFU!
little paddie is the real joke here. He wouldn’t be here in that job if it weren’t for his name. Now the dynasty is gone, done, over. He has to be on his own. He’s jealous as the day is long. Time to stand on your own two feet little paddie. Scott Brown deserved this win. Coakley did not. Now we have U. S. Senator and Mrs. Scott Brown. Gosh, what a beautiful, clean, pure beginning for MA. The kennedy’s are OVER.
Indeed it is!!!
The rule set by the Senate is that Brown should have been sworn in the next day. It’s been posted on FR. Kennedy is clueless.
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