John Kerry

I'm thinking that the staffer's excellent oped was essentially informing Brown and everyone else that Kennedy would not have supported this. Not to mention, he keeps calling it bipartisan when the only Democrat is Ben Nelson. I don't remember a whole lot of times where Teddy and Ben Nelson stood against the rest of the Democrats - especially on an amendment that would ultimately gut healthcare reform.

I suspect that it will be a while before we hear from Vicki (or Kerry). The more times that Brown has the chutzpah to take a dead man's reputation to use politically against the main cause of the man's life, the more this sticks to him. He is a creepy demagogue here. To go as far as to say "it borrows language" from a Kennedy bill is sick - especially as the Kennedy staffer already identified how different the two objectives are.

This goes beyond someone like Kerry being able to use the Benson line - that Brown is no EMK - this has to offensive to the people who really loved Ted Kennedy.