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In another life, when he had a wife and child by his side, and a home that still belonged to him, Matt Amorello once hosted a fund-raiser for Mitt Romney. Mitt, as you may recall, returned the favor . . . by crucifying Amorello. So much for Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment: Never shank a fellow Republican. I come this morning not to praise Matt Amorello, but to show what his brother Republicans seem incapable of - a little compassion. Let’s return to a steamy July morning in 2006, hours after a 12-ton ceiling panel in the connector tunnel to Logan...

A week-long verbal battle between Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his Republican colleagues over tax breaks tied to the minimum wage increase turned personal today, when a key Republican senator took the floor and gave Kennedy a stinging, two-word rebuttal: Big Dig. Kennedy, an influential Massachusetts Democrat, had used much of the morning continuing his one-man tirade against Republicans. He skewered them for "greed" and "arrogance" over their efforts to block a higher minimum wage Then Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican and a leading critic of wasteful government spending, brought to the Senate chamber a poster-sized chart depicting...