Posted on 09/26/2009 3:27:24 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Teddymandering is the practice of changing a law to benefit your political party, then reversing the change when your political party will benefit from the original rules to which you objected.
Named for former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy. Senator Kennedy influenced the Massachusetts state legislature to change the Senatorial succession law during the 2004 election. His reasons were strictly because Senator John Kerry, if elected President, would be replaced by an appointee of (then) Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican. At the time, Kennedy was against any interim appointment until a special election could be held.
In 2009, as he neared death from brain cancer, Kennedy asked the state legislature to revise the law so that the governor could make an interim appointment. The governor of Massachusetts in 2009 was (is) Deval Patrick, a Democrat.
Perhaps if we freep it they won't delete it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddymandering
The term was created by a recent caller to Howie Carr’s radio show in Boston.
It’s pure genious.
http://domain-daily.com/new/2009-09-24/152.html
Domain Names Registered on 9/23/2009
“teddymandering.com”
Looks like whoever input this entry into wikipedia plans on having a real blast with this.
From the state that gave you Gerrymandering. (after Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachusetts. With a hard “g” as in garry.)
“Teddymandering”
Gad, I love the mongrel, ad hoc construction of The English Language.
Seriously?
Oh the ironies.
I want to add the following catagories: Philanderer, rapist, alcoholic sot, cheater, liar, fat slob. I’m sure we can come up with more.
I heard that Teddy has now been sober for over 4 weeks.
Ping
I like the whining about making stuff up. Where the hell do they think the term Gerrymandering came from?
I don’t think moses carried it down from the mountain on a stone tablet.
It will become political lore the way that gerrymandering was coined after Elbridge Gerry.
Retroactively, the Torch swap in New Jersey was teddymandering, too. At the time, the Democrats were simultaneously arguing that Torricelli must be removed from the ballot in New Jersey in the name of "competitive" elections, while the deceased Patsy Mink must remain on the ballot in Hawaii in the name of "fairness."
-PJ
I like it. I just saw a bumper sticker about an hour ago for a form of government called Minarchy, essentially a minimally invasive form of rule. The definition eludes me right now, but when I read it it seemed like the antidote to the 0bama way of governing. Or maybe it’s anarchy-lite. I don’t know.
Any FReepers have knowledge of what it’s about?
TUI - Teddymandering under the influence.
It’s pretty funny but probably won’t be around for long.
You mean an alernative to Obama’s global maximarchy?
Great stuff!
It is not going to make a hill of beans difference as soon as Obama gets to appoint every position in the government.
God. Sometimes I do just hate this state and every politician in it.
The link on the page about half way down brings you back here to a post titled “Bill on Kennedy Seat Advances”
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2345780/posts
How appropriate coming from the state that gave us Gerrymandering
Kudos, Lib ... your post is being cited in the Wikipedia entry now as reason to nuke the entry. Of course, they took out FreeRepublic and replaced it with the IP address: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2345780/posts
A screenshot! Most excellent!
Take that, wikipedia progressives!
:-)
Great stuff. I saved a copy for when they delete it probably no later than Monday, 28 September 2009
Hopefully someday Massachusetts will be known for something other than arrogant, corrupt liberals !
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