So Much for Teddy's Constituents!
Obviously, the remark could be understood as casting aspersions on many of his late father's constituents; he said it in the context of objecting to Brown's vote against a Big Labor-handpicked nominee to the NRLB.
Even so, his comment reeks of the kind of liberal condescension that, as University of Virginia associate professor Gerald Alexander writes in the WaPo today, has long damaged American political debate.