I hate picking on the sick and elderly. But I couldn’t let this go without comment.
Ted Kennedy seems to believe that rules are made to be broken, at least when it advances a liberal agenda. This is just wrong.
Senator Ted Kennedy, who is gravely ill with brain cancer, has sent a letter to Massachusetts lawmakers requesting a change in the state law that determines how his Senate seat would be filled if it became vacant before his eighth full term ends in 2012. Current law mandates that a special election be held at least 145 days after the seat becomes available. Mr. Kennedy is concerned that such a delay could leave his fellow Democrats in the Senate one vote short of a filibuster-proof majority for months while a special election takes place.
“I therefore am writing to urge you to work together to amend the law through the normal legislative process to provide for a temporary gubernatorial appointment until the special election occurs,” writes the Senator.
What Mr. Kennedy doesn’t volunteer is that he orchestrated the 2004 succession law revision that now requires a special election, and for similarly partisan reasons. John Kerry, the other Senator from the state, was running for President in 2004, and Mr. Kennedy wanted the law changed so the Republican Governor at the time, Mitt Romney, could not name Mr. Kerry’s replacement. “Prodded by a personal appeal from Senator Edward M. Kennedy,” reported the Boston Globe in 2004, “Democratic legislative leaders have agreed to take up a stalled bill creating a special election process to replace U.S. Senator John F. Kerry if he wins the presidency.” Now that the state has a Democratic Governor, Mr. Kennedy wants to revert to gubernatorial appointments.
To the people of Massachusetts, all I can say is: you created this beast. Thanks a lot.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday that after a wildly successful run, the cash for clunkers program will come to a close on Monday, August 24th at 8 p.m. EDT.
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Is there something in the water?
IMO: The peeps in Mass. are loony tunes.
The only way the “progressives” will be defeated is AFTER they totaly mess things up and everyone is PO’d because of it.
They don’t call them “sheeple” for nothing.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t feel citizens are stupid or anything like that. I feel they are too busy with their own lives, have been under-educated by our public schools and brain washed in college to realize what’s really happening.
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Ice Road Truckers would be in Russian and we would not have a clue what they were saying..
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Good…, as they say, all good things come to an end. Actually, this could be considered a BAD thing b/c it’s CRAZY, we are giving people money to live more vicariously and lavishly than before all this economical bust took place
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