Sen. Kerry is getting Kennedy's desk

[wisteria]

This seems so historic to me. The desk used by President Kennedy then Senator Kennedy. Imagine Senator Kerry carving his name in the drawer along side Pres.Kennedy and Senator Kennedy's names.

The article is smarmy, but informative.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010975368_apusbrownkennedysseat.html

[Blaukraut]

1. Good. I couldn't bear the thought of Brown carving his name

next to Teddy's and JFK's names. That would be sick.

[karynnj]

4. ewww!!

That would be sickening.

[wisteria]

5. Yah, and I hope he doesn't get Robert Kennedy's either. How about them giving him

former Pa Senator Santorum's old desk?

[karynnj]

7. I assume that some Democrat will claim RFK's desk

[Luftmensch067]

2. Awwwwww!

I would have missed this -- thanks for posting!

The true inheritor of that legacy.

[karynnj]

3. That will likely mean so much to him

as he loved both of them.

Some have said that Brown gets Kennedy's office, but I doubt that is true either.

[wisteria]

6. No, I don't think he will get the prime office either- to the basement with him.

It was good enough for Hillary Clinton-it should do perfectly for Brown.

[wisteria]

12. Apparently, he is getting Kennedy's office until at least 2010.

I suppose because of the special election he won, they have no place for him on the lower level yet. But, it makes me sick to think this guy is sitting in Kennedy's nice office and is there as an obstructionist. :puke: X 10

[wisteria]

13. The end of 2010. n/t

[Inuca]

14. Nobody willing to move up

and leave him some prime basement Senate real estate?

Here is hoping that he will be less horrible than my expectations...

[wisteria]

15. Yeah, I wonder why they found room for Franken in the basement, but couldn't accomodate Brown. n/t

[ProSense]

8. Very cool. n/t

[MBS]

9. WONDERFUL

Tbis is SOOOOO appropriate. (And, with Blaukraut, the thought of the senator-who-shall-not-be-named even touching that desk. . . :puke:

[Inuca]

10. (Bitter)sweet! n/t

[karynnj]

11. Perfect one word summary

[Mass]

16. Kirk just finished his farewell speech, and Kerry concluded.

Just noted that no Republican was on the floor for this speech. So much for bipartisanship.

[wisteria]

17. No surprise there. Bet they will be all over tomorrow to welcome Brown.

I did catch both floor speeches.

[karynnj]

19. They were all there today

With copious clapping after he was sworn in, which is the norm. It will be interesting to see if he settles down to just doing his work. I wonder which committees the Republicans intend to put him on. I hope they do not put him on SFRC. (I think John Warner and Webb were both on Armed Services.)

[wisteria]

20. It would be just like them to put him on the SFRC, as another obstructionist like DeMint. n/t

[ladym55]

21. And M$M continues their breathless coverage ...

What "work" exactly is Pickup Truck guy going to do??? I somehow have problems seeing him actually analyzing legislation as promised. The bills are LONG and may include BIG words!!!!

The junior senator from Massachusetts will continue to be Pickup Truck guy to me. There are just so many things that send me over the edge about the guy, including having the same last name of my Senator Brown, the real deal, the progressive, the guy who won't take his Senate health insurance until the rest of us get coverage.

Senator Kerry was classy during the swearing in ... I expect Pickup Truck guy won't be as polite to JK, but that would require class.

[wisteria]

22. Brown strikes me as having very little class- sort of like Palin.

And, I can't stand to look at him for long, I feel like I need a shower, all I envision is him posing nude for Cosmo and covering his little thing-eww.

[ladym55]

24. I don't get why the electorate keeps getting sold empty suits

Pickup Truck guy is good-looking in a vapid sort of way, but it's pretty clear that the well-coiffed head isn't bothered by any big thoughts. Why on EARTH do supposedly legitimate journalists gush unendingly about empty-headed fools???

Sarah Pallin??? Really??? I like ALL the Founding Fathers??? Some clown who posed for a centerfold???

Complicated problems don't need knuckleheads making decisions. Why do we keep getting sold knuckleheads?

[wisteria]

25. They look good on camera-looks sell. But, it is so frustrating and bad for our country. n/t

[MBS]

27. this is a question I ask myself daily

and, have, indeed, been asking myself since Reagan was elected in 1980 (well, actually, since he was elected governor of CA, but that's another story, except to note that CA is still suffering the effects of the Prop 13 mentality the way the US continues to suffer for our fellow citizens' continuing propensity to fall for celebrity and shallowness ).
Especially NOW, when surely people can see that we have big problems that require serious, hard work, and intelligence and integrity, to tackle. The kind of problems for which driving a *#*$*% pickup truck, is utterly beside the point.

[wisteria]

18. Well, it it a done deal-he has been sworn in. At least now he will have to actually do some work.n/

[karynnj]

23. Schumer is getting the RFK seat - so Brown doesn't get that either

The seating today of Republican Scott Brown to take the place of the late Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy set of a shuffling of desk assignments in the Senate chamber.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will take Kennedy's old desk, and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will take the old desk of former New York Sen. Bobby Kennedy, a Schumer aide confirmed today.

Each desk has its own history, a history that the senators themselves actually inscribe into the drawer of the desk, something you can see on this arcane but interesting Senate website. Click on a seat -- Schumer's is number 61 -- to see the list of senators who have used the desk and a picture of the tagged desk drawer. Schumer will take the desk number 46 now used by Kerry.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle-1.812042/schumer-moves-to-rfk-desk-in-senate-chamber-1.1743023

[wisteria]

26. Good. n/t

[ObamaKerryDem]

28. I am so glad to hear this! No other Senator is more deserving.

And SO glad Brown's not getting it..