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Note to moron reporter Glen Johnson: This first part of your article is useless for your larger point, though he has to begrudgingly admit that Kerry is an important and knowledgeable person in the Senate (as much as Johnson loathes to admit him)

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/05/13/kerry-praises-standard-brown-lives/MZK7TFy64IXplnXSHHTG7I/story.html

John F. Kerry, overshadowed for much of his career in the US Senate by his late colleague Edward M. Kennedy, has nonetheless steadily accumulated tenure and stature during his five terms in the upper chamber of Congress.

Without much notice, he has become the tenth-most senior member of what has been billed as the world’s greatest deliberative body. With much notice, he has also become chairman of the prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gained a familiarity with domestic and foreign affairs (My comment:Who would have known, reading reporting of Mr Johnson) that propelled him to his party’s 2004 presidential nomination.

That long record of service has also left him forlorn, as he has seen the Senate in particular, and Congress as a whole, riven by partisanship.
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which happens to be false, as Brown has voted with the GOP for nearly every important and disputed issue, without ever casting the deciding vote and misses the point that Brown often voted on laws on which the Democrats in the Senate had already largely compromise to accommodate our junior senator.

Kerry’s strong defense of both Republicans belied a simple fact: By one common index, both have been more partisan than Senator Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican Kerry hopes to see replaced in the Senate by Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Snowe and Lugar have also been more bipartisan than Kerry.

BTW, if Mr Johnson thinks Brown is bipartisan, think again. This vote http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002676376 a few years ago in the MA Senate makes him the lone Republican to vote in favor of Romney's veto in a bill that should never have been vetoed in the first place (who opposes to fighting bullying???)