I suspect that the fact that they represent the same state will not mean they do much work together. Something tells me that Brown will not work with the Congressional delegation to actively get good things for Massachusetts -- and the MA media that always faulted Kerry for not being obsessed with pork for the state will likely not call Brown on it.
On other issues, Mr "the stimulus did not create one job" will likely be mentored by someone like McConnell. Look how he spun this whole thing about getting seated. He made a sad time for the Kennedy staff needlessly worse in a ruthless, uncaring way. (Yet the Hill's article wanted to stir trouble twisting Kerry's comments that sympathized with that staff.) The Washing Post actually called him on it.
Brown, the surprise victor in last month's special election, had raised no objection to taking his oath of office on Feb. 11. But then conservative commentators complained that he was dilly-dallying; the Boston Herald's Howie Carr accused him on Wednesday of taking "a three-week victory lap."
So, in one of his first major decisions since winning election, the Republican made his choice: He would cave in to his conservative critics. He requested -- no, demanded! -- that he be seated promptly -- no, immediately! -- so that he could start to do the important work of being a senator. Democratic Senate leaders complied with his demand (they even let him have Ted Kennedy's primo office suite), and Vice President Biden made time to swear in Brown on the Senate floor at 5 p.m. Thursday
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An hour before Brown's swearing-in, Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), the placeholder who had filled Kennedy's seat, gave his farewell on the Senate floor, an emotional appeal for "bipartisan comity." Eighteen Democratic senators stood and applauded. But Republicans let the majority know where they stood on the whole bipartisan comity thing: Not a single one of them came to hear Kirk's farewell.
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A few minutes later, after his wife got a chance to admire his new Senate lapel pin, Brown entered the jammed TV studio in a hail of camera flashes. Senator Centerfold laid out his positions. How might he work with Democrats? "I need to see what issues are coming up." His stance on gays in the military? "I want to speak to the generals in the field." A filibuster of the labor board nominee? "I'm going to look at everybody's qualifications." The jobs legislation? "I need to see what's in the bill."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404009.htmlSome how, parts of the media ignored that the Democrats with 24 hours notice got space on Biden's calendar (and Kerry's) and they gave him an office that he clearly did not deserve.