Frank Bruni, of The New York Times, interviewed Scott Brown before he was sworn into office last month.  His report, "Where Scott Brown is Coming From...and Where He is Going" is very interesting:

In just 48 hours, Scott Brown would be sworn in as the newest member of the United States Senate, stepping into the shoes (and office suite) of Edward M. Kennedy and the world of woe on Capitol Hill. But as he zipped down a Massachusetts highway on an early February night, he wasn’t focused on the issues he campaigned on and the problems he would soon confront: a gargantuan federal deficit; terrorism; health care reform, which his election may well have killed. He was fixated on “Saturday Night Live.” And how the actor Jon Hamm nailed him in a recent skit.

“A lot of his mannerisms — he actually did a pretty good job,” Brown said, bringing up the TV show for the second time in 90 minutes and sounding hugely amused. He lavished even more praise on the skit’s writers, who envisioned him as a Republican lamb lost in the U.S. Capitol and stumbling repeatedly into a Democratic leadership meeting where Senators Barbara Boxer and Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, among others, huddled. “That would be me,” he said, grinning. “I would actually walk into an office and say: ‘Oh, my God, I’m sorry, this place is big, I’m lost, I’m sorry.’ ”

The skit’s gist was in fact less innocent than that...Continue reading on The New York Times >>