Can Elizabeth Warren be the new Ted Kennedy?

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3. "sly" "playing the media" (conservative) WAPO "exulted" Hmmm.

Sounds like Joan Vennochi and Orrin Hatch may have come to bury Warren, not to praise her.

Speaking of which, if you listened and watched carefully when Hatch was supposedly eulogizing Kennedy at the Library service, it was a good thing knives in his back could no longer hurt the newly late Senator. Had the places been reversed, Kennedy would never have done that to Hatch. But then, Kennedy would never have done this to Hatch, either.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, cited a bridge too far from Brooklyn in the Clarence Thomas confirmation debate yesterday, and later apologized to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., for the goof.

Hatch was trying to knock down charges that the White House had orchestrated the attacks on law professor Anita Hill's credibility, saying at one point that "if anybody believes that," then there is a bridge up "in Massachusetts" they might want to buy.

Later, the apologetic Hatch returned to the Senate floor to say the statement had been a mistake and to ask that it be amended to read a bridge ''in Brooklyn."

Hatch didn't come right out and say so, but clearly he realized his crack could be construed as a low blow at Kennedy, who in 1969 drove a car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick Island, killing a young woman passenger.

WASHINGTON —

Hatch didn't realize that before he opened his nasty piehole on the record? Really? Took the lowest, most gratuitous blow at the man who was supposed to be his best Democratic friend in the Senate?

Yeah, I'm sure Hatch is just pining away for another Ted Kennedy. Something tells me the same is true of Slanter Vennochio, whose point basically is that, at bottom, Kennedy was a centrist compromiser and Warren needs to follow that lead.

Fuck both their jealous asses, sez I.