The Boston Globe

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Scott Brown: Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of his health insurance decision is ‘sad’

Senator Scott Brown said today that “it’s sad” for rival Elizabeth Warren to criticize his decision to continue insuring one of his daughters through the Obama administration health care law that he has opposed and tried to repeal. “For her to call me a hypocrite as to how Gail and I provide for our family, it’s sad,” Brown said. Warren, Brown’s likely Democratic challenger this fall, never personally applied that label to the senator. But her campaign spokeswoman did Monday.

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Warren did not call Brown a hypocrite. Reading the article, a staffer let the word loose, but Brown will jump on it anyway. Too bad. This kind of slip does Warren no good and serves as cover for Brown's thinking, which is essentially, "We've got ours, you get your own." or "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." If Elizabeth Warren should have paid more taxes than she owed because of Jacoby' s moral imperative, then by the same token, Brown should have deferred and not used the law he is opposed to, on moral grounds. But then, splitting hairs is not for the faint of heart, especially when one has a dull knife like Brown.l

OK. They both have flaws. This campaign is already tedious, with 6 months to go. Let's move on. Which one will act on behalf of the best interests of the electorate? Bottom line.

Sad like his vote against a bill that brought health insurance to millions, including his own daughter.