Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has arrived in Washington DC. The Boston Globe is suggesting that it's important that he and Senior Senator John Kerry get along, and I tend to agree:
“Within any legislative body, all the incentives are to collaborate,’’ said Marty Linsky, a politics professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “It’s not in either Brown’s or Kerry’s best interests not to get along and not work together. In the past, [senators in opposite parties] actually found it good for the state to be able to collaborate. It gave each one of them access to the other party.’’It will be interesting to see how this relationship develops.
And that, Linsky said, makes it easier to bring home the federal bacon.
In the Senate, he added, “you can’t afford to alienate anybody, particularly someone in your own jurisdiction. We’ll see a lot more collaboration than conflict.’’
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