Congratulations to former Democratic National Committee Chair Paul G. Kirk, Jr., upon his being named as interim Senator, replaccing Senator Kennedy until a by-election in January 2010.
Paul Kirk was counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees from COmmunism when I was interning for Senator Ted Kennedy. The Subommittee's focus was global, on the plight of refugees too often ignored by governments.
Paul Kirk was also Senator Kennedy's "political person," a shrewd, witty, scholarly guide to the ways of Washington and Massachusetts (whose father served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court).
Massachusetts Republicans are reportedly hell-bent suing to keep Paul Kirk from taking the oath of office as a temporary Senator tomorrow. How gauche.
I can almost hear Senator Ted Kennedy laughing at the effrontery of it all -- they want health care reform to fail in the Senate and they're willing to do anything to stop health care reform -- even going to court to keep Paul Kirk from becoming Senator for a couple of months.
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