The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts has infuriated those who abandoned long ago:

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.

Really, Patrick? You don’t think running in Rhode Island at 21 while you’re still studying for your B.Sc. doesn’t seem like a bit of a joke as an election? Why couldn’t you have run in Massachusetts if your father’s legacy had so much promise? Do you think winning an election at 21 suggests that no one took you as an individual seriously but were hoping that the brilliant Kennedy legacy?

But Kennedy is all over the road, and not just because he happens to have taken too much Ambien. Incidentally, Kennedy should avoid expression like “in the tank,” as that where Kennedy should have been the night he ran into a vehicle, one month before he wiped out his vehicle at 3 am high on prescription drugs. (The image above is the police report Kennedy filled out on April 2006 after his accident. Maybe he just writes really, really, really messily.) He also wants to be on record as downplaying the victory as no big deal:

“It was only four points, and frankly, given the campaign that was run up there, he should have won by a lot more. It was a testament to where people were politically that she got the votes she did. [Martha Coakley] was not a good candidate, as almost everyone knows.”

Coakley was leading by nearly twenty points when the campaign was underway. There’s still some debate as to whether having Obama swoop in to endorse her was such a grand idea. Maybe it wasn’t so much the campaign that “she” ran was so great but the voters got to hear her plans for their futures on the national stage and decided she was in over her head.

Brown was so anxious to get his Senate seat because the chairwarmer occupying it, Paul Kirk, had been abusing the voting power from the moment he took over Edward Kennedy’s seat. Kennedy had died August 25th of 2009, and Kirk was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts on September 24th, in violation of the 90-day waiting period that is Massachusetts law. Kirk was also casting votes in the Senate from January 20th, when Scott Brown won the special election for the Senate seat, also in clear violation of the law. Since the Senate was stacked with 60 Democrats, it was necessary to keep Kirk there as a deafult Democrat vote to get as much legislation rammed through as possible. (Kirk was also one of the “superdelegates” in the 2008 Democratic Party primaries.)

Kennedy has also been complaining that Brown was looking to cast a vote to stall the nomination of Craig Becker, under Senate review for appointment to the National Labour Relations Board. If Brown is “the most anti-what his constituents thought they were voting for” candidate, as Kennedy states clumsily, he must have had a hard time conveying that to the people of Massachusetts. (That must have been a really bad campaign Martha Coakley ran! Did she kiss a photo of Osama bin Laden during a debate?) Becker is considered “controversial” by the antique media, but they’ll never tell you why. (Too much like research.) The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee already confirmed a vote of 13-10 that his appointment can now go for a full Senate vote. Becker is currently working as the associate general counsel at Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union. Remember the SEIU? The SEIU is hoping that you don’t.

Becker’s concepts of democracy have a panache for creativity:

Mr. Becker has other ideas. In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, he explained that traditional notions of democracy should not apply in union elections. He wrote that employers should be barred from attending NLRB hearings about elections, and from challenging election results even amid evidence of union misconduct. He believes elections should be removed from work sites and held on “neutral grounds,” or via mail ballots. Employers should also be barred from “placing observers at the polls to challenge ballots.”

Mail-in ballots with no pesky owners there to raise objections. Did Becker oversee Saddam Hussein’s elections too? Becker is also heavily criticized by the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union legal fund. Becker has strong-armed union membership on thousands of workers, like it or not:

In fact, as a former AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lawyer, Mr. Becker is solely responsible for forcing tens of thousands of workers under union boss control.

In one case, reports from a Los Angeles SEIU local union revealed that almost 63,000 people rejected membership in the union in 2007, but thanks to Mr. Becker, were still forced to pay dues.

Welcome to the health care “debate” going on in the United States right now, and if Kennedy was right, they saw Brown as their last effort to reject the nationalization movement:

“This wasn’t about healthcare,” he said. “This was about Massachusetts not wanting to subsidize anybody else’s healthcare. They’ve got [universal coverage]. So people have been taking all kinds of messages that universally can’t be drawn.”

Right–it’s not about health care; it’s about health care! Ever since Kennedy beat the system both out of family influence in the election arena, to proving he’s constantly above the law as far as his vices, he has proven to be the real joke. Hiding his licentiousness behind the victimhood of having a “mental disorder,” he is fitting to be the very last of the Kennedys in Congress.

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