Saturday, January 16, 2010

The establishment in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts, . . .

. . . is so accustomed to referring to the seat being contested in the special election as "Teddy Kennedy's seat" that the supposedly even-handed moderator of the debate, David Gergen, used that construction in questioning Scott Brown. To which Scott Brown replied with the soundbite of the night: "It's not the Kennedys' seat, it's not the