the next Senator from Massachusetts… for, like, five minutes.
Barney Frank wants to be something Michael Dukakis doesn’t. Interim Senator.
Why Barney Frank wants such a thing… apparently to fill some voids. Because he views the next three months as important. Too important to leave to … um… Senator someone short of the stature of Dukakis.
The problem comes in on why the Democratic brass always wants non-entities to fill interims. Because there are politicos trying to stake out ground to beat Scott Brown. Though, in that vein, you can skip back over to Paul G Kirk as a sort of permanent fill in.