The Elizabeth Warren campaign sent me an email titled, “Stop Distorting Ted Kennedy’s Record”, that wants me to sign onto a letter shown below.\u00a0 However, I think they are taking the wrong approach.\u00a0 Even though I signed the letter, I attached the following comment:<\/p>\n
As a volunteer for Elizabeth Warren and a collector of signatures for her primary ballot access, I must tell you that you are taking the wrong approach.<\/p>\n
Politicians distort other politician’s records all the time. The public does not care that much, they are used to it.<\/p>\n
This approach to what Brown is doing plays right into Brown’s bit about this is not being the Kennedy seat. It also sounds a little whiny. What famous politician got nowhere by asking, “Tell him to stop lying about my record?”<\/p>\n
Instead, attack Brown’s policy because it is the wrong policy.<\/p>\n
Previous accommodations for religious reasons to allow personal non-compliance with legal mandates were an attempt to be reasonable.\u00a0 Give these Republicans an inch, and they want to take a mile.\u00a0 They cannot use the granting of previous accommodations which were granted out of the goodness of people’s hearts to ask for even more accommodations.\u00a0 The previous accommodations were a stretch to grant in the first place.<\/p>\n
Granting an accommodation so a person can block the right of someone else to get health care is not a reasonable (or perhaps not even a Constitutionally permissible) thing to do.<\/p>\n
I suppose you could mention that even with his Catholic principles firmly intact, Senator Kennedy understood the limits of granting accommodations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n