Ted Kennedy waited several years before delivering a speech on the senate floor. Kennedy's replacememt, Paul Kirk, will give his "farewell" speech to the senate today despite sitting in the august body for less than six months. What's the over/under on the number of senators present in the chamber to hear Senator Nobody's farewell address? Later today, after much delay, Scott Brown will be sworn in to the senate seat once held by Lodges and Kennedys. If a Republican sitting in John F. Kennedy's senate seat is too much for some Democrats to take, there is the added sting of Brown inheriting Ted Kennedy's office in the Russell Building. The Massachusetts secretary of state, who has delayed Brown's certification, has taken the unusual step of sniping at Brown in a partisan manner as he has finally given his imprimatur to Brown's victory. "I'd like to call on Senator Brown now to respect the rights of the majority," Bill Galvin proclaimed. "I hope that we will be able to see an up or down vote on all the nominations of President Obama and that the rights of the majority that are being respected here will be respected by the United States Senate and Senator Brown." The secretary of state might want to heed his own advice. He certified Nikki Tsongas's victory two days after she won a special election. He dithered for more than two weeks, and would have held it up even further if not for the public uproar, after Brown's special election triumph. Galvin's disregard for the "rights of the majority" of Bay Staters was not without consequence. With Paul Kirk's vote, and Brown blocked from taking the senate seat Massachusetts voters awarded him, Democrats were able to raise the debt ceiling by almost $2 trillion dollars.

About time! Classless (and clueless) Kirk did what I suppose we should expect from a Kennedy coat holder and stayed too long. I guess though, if a fraud like Al Franken can be there, why not Kirk? Or Kerry, for that matter.

Let's hope Scotty kicks some legislative A!

The honeymoon is over for Scott Brown with the Dems. As would be expected, they resort to the classlessness that they are now always famous for because they still can't believe this guy won.

Patches Kennedy calls Brown's candidacy and election a joke. This coming from another Kennedy dim bulb who still doesn't realize that he is in Congress only because he's a member of the Lucky Sperm Club.

And John Kerry, commenting on how that nasty old Republican Brown summarily booted Kirk from the Sainted Kennedy office along with is staffers. This coming from the guy who before Kennedy was cold, yelled 'dibs' on his desk.

What would make my year complete (other than having Obama resign) would be to see Patches and Kerry get the electorates boot right out of their cushy undeserved jobs.