Posted on 02/05/2010 9:40:18 AM PST by reaganaut1
The son of the late US Senator Edward M. Kennedy has criticized Senator Scott Brown for accelerating his swearing-in, saying it showed Brown's candidacy was "a joke," a publication that covers Capitol Hill reports.
Representative Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose father held Brown's seat for 47 years until his death last year, said Thursday that "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," according to The Hill's Blog Briefing Room. "Senator Brown is eager to start working on behalf of Massachusetts families on policies that will create jobs and help the economy. He won't be sidetracked by negative partisan attacks that do nothing to help Massachusetts families find work," said Felix Browne, a Brown spokesman.
A spokeswoman for Kennedy didn't immediately return messages seeking comment.
Brown abruptly announced Wednesday that he wanted to be sworn in Thursday, a week earlier than the Feb. 11 swearing-in his campaign had been planning. Brown has said he wanted to start working immediately on urgent issues, but there has been plenty of speculation about exactly why he made the move.
Brown declined to say Thursday whether he would participate in a Republican filibuster of the Obama administration nominee, union lawyer Craig Becker, to the National Labor Relations Board, which brokers disputes between employers and unions. Becker's nomination could come up as early as Monday, possibly providing Brown his first chance to join Republicans in blocking a Democratic proposal.
Kennedy told The Hill that Brown had gotten strong support from labor households and his first vote would be "the most anti-labor, the most anti-what his constituents thought they were voting for when they voted for him."
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Ode to Ted and Patches....
I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
but I didn’t see that the joke was on me, oh no.
I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.
I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I’d said.
Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,
oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.
“The Kennedy stranglehold died with Ted. Pat is merely a mopping up operation.”
Where are the coat tails?
I see lots of comments were deleted!
Is he the one who I keep getting mixed-up with Cindy Sheehan?
Kiddo, you don’t want to start an argument about which pol is the biggest joke in New England. You really don’t.
Take a chill pill Pat. Oops, sorry about that - I forgot about that whole substance abuse thing.
Sounds as if he’s becoming unhinged.
Well, more so than before, if that’s possible. I predict another rehab stay early in the year so he can get it over before the election, in which I hope he gets his arse whipped and we never hear from him again.
Slam dunk, unquestioned Kennedy political success in New Englnad, year in and year out, is a DIRECT barometer of the lack of brain wave activity in the voting populace of that region.
Don't be too hard on him - it's probably the booze talking.
He needs to get back in Rehab.
that Kennedy’s have been elected in New England just because of their last name.
Now that’s a joke I hope everyone is over by now. Scat, Pat.
Rehab has his bed waiting for him...
To elitist fascists, everything that isn't under their control is a joke/threat.
Patrick’s the clan member that the Kennedy Machine sent to play next door. They sent in their political operatives, picked out a nice cozy RI voting district, gave the existing DEMOCRATIC incumbent the bum’s rush in the primary and the rest, as they say now with some embarrassment in RI, is “history”. For all the good he’s done the state of Rhode Island, Patrick Kennedy might as well be a door-stop.
Out of the first 25 comments, 21 are distinctly down on Patches and four were removed by the Globe staff.
TheClintons-STILLAnti-American wrote: “Of course Kennedy thinks Brown is a joke.”
..... but he still hasn’t figured out that the joke is on him.
This will just make the Democrats look stupid (not a hard task).
Actually the Kennedys are a joke. They are a degenerated, alcoholic, drug abusing joke. A joke that is in very poor taste.
Teddy? First time in over 50 years.
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