From the Young Turks radio show:
Cenk Uygur: Thanks for joining us Senator. We appreciate it. I gotta start off with the question we've had now for over six months, I gotta ask you, why did you vote for the Military Commissions Act?
Senator Brown: It was a bad vote. I shouldn't have.
Cenk Uygur: Oh, wow. Okay.
Senator Brown: A vote I'll correct ... when it comes.
Cenk Uygur: So, you regret that?
Senator Brown: I take responsibility. It was the heat of the campaign and I made a mistake.
Cenk Uygur: So, if it comes again you're going to change the vote?
Senator Brown: You bet.
Good to hear. Clean admission of a mistake. But I'm not feeling all that forgiving yet. At the time I wrote that I'd consider forgiving when it was fixed. He was well up in the polls and didn't need to pander and at the time he said it was a vote of principle. Coming from someone who had a record different from Brown - someone more right wing, I'd be a lot more forgiving. But Brown is very progressive in most respects and his vote was so clearly out of character that it smacked of the worst sort of calculation.
Still, he did admit he was wrong, and those of us who want people to change their minds should reward such behaviour. So good for you Mr. Brown. Now see what you can do to fix it, eh?