At least on an interim basis,
advises the Boston Globe in an editorial urging the
legislature to go back to the pre-2004 succession law for Ted
Kennedy's seat. But credit where it's due: the Globe
called the change in the law five years ago a "naked effort to
block former governor Romney from appointing a fellow Republican
if Senator John Kerry were to win the presidency." At the time,
the newspaper urged legislators to "scuttle this undeniably
partisan bill."