Even as a new poll hints that he faces his own election difficulties, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., took time yesterday to dump on newly elected Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. Apparently, Brown made the mistake of demanding his seat as soon as he was certified and for possibly not voting as Kennedy’s late father would have voted on a union-friendly nominee to the National Labor Relations Board. From The Hill:

“Brown’s whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama’s appointment to the NLRB,” Kennedy said Thursday.