Brown hits back at Kennedy for ‘joke’ candidacy dig

U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) (L) talks with Rep. Patrick Kennedy
last week following his election to the seat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
Patrick Kennedy’s father, once held.

Some things never change and Patrick Kennedy being a jerk is one of those. Hope that the voters of Rhode Island ousts him from the House of Representatives. What a petty thing to have Patrick Kennedy call Senator Brown's candidacy "a joke" when in reality the joke has been Patrick Kennedy representing Rhode Island.

Between Patrick Kennedy and the office staff of Kennedy/Kirk and their whine about having to move before they wanted to move out of the office shows a lack of class on the part of some Democrats.

Brown hits back at Kennedy for ‘joke’ candidacy dig
By Jessica Van Sack
Friday, February 5, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A stung U.S. Sen. Scott Brown lashed out at U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy today for insulting his landmark win by calling his candidacy “a joke.”
Brown said Kennedy’s remarks are “mean-spirited,” especially coming on the day he was celebrating being sworn into office.

“I was elected and the votes are certified and I’m here to do my job. It’s unfortunate that he would use mean-spirited comments like that at a time when we’re just trying to solve the problems of the Commonwealth,” Brown said today on his first full day on the job.

Kennedy (D-R.I.) told The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room yesterday, “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.”

The son of former U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, whose seat Brown is now filling, added that the newly confirmed GOP senator is a key vote against the nomination of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

“This is where he shows that when they need him, he’s in the tank for the Republicans,” Kennedy is quoted as saying.

Brown has denied any hidden agenda in moving up his swearing-in from Feb. 11 to yesterday afternoon.

A procedural vote on whether to confirm President Obama’s pick for the NLRB is scheduled for Monday and is expected to provide the first test of whether the Republicans’ new 41-member caucus can sustain a filibuster - and will be among the first votes cast by Brown.

Excerpt: Read More at Boston Herald