I’m just now reading all the Boston Globe coverage of the Kennedy vs. Santorum story. This is just all so low and rotten.

Take this, for example:

US Representative Barney Frank, a Newton Democrat, called Santorum ”a jerk” and pointed out that the senator tried to use the levers of the federal government to block the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, an act that Santorum likened to ”execution.” An autopsy found that Schiavo’s brain was half the normal size and that she could not see anything.
”This is one of those people who claims to have had eye contact with a blind woman,” Frank said.

Yesterday Ted Kennedy went to the floor responding to a piece–read it here– from three years ago that is perfectly defensible, thoughtful, about a painful time for a lot of people. It’s just crass–callous and insenstive to use Kennedy’s words from Wednesday–to be using this as a bludgeon to defeat Santorum. And that’s what is happening. And you can disagree with Santorum’s conclusions—and not even like Santorum—and see that, I’d think. It’s actually offensive that people (Kennedy, Kerry, etc) are making this blow-up to be an argument about the Catholic Church or even the people of Boston when it’s all about is beating the Left’s Public Enemy #1 in 2006.

Kennedy began his Senate floor statement yesterday with “RICK SANTORUM owes an immediate apology to the tragic and long-suffering victims of sexual abuse and their families in Boston, Massachusetts, in Pennsylvania, and around the country.” How about the Kennedy apologize for making people go through this all again for the sake of down-and-dirty politics?