Posted on 11/17/2008 9:37:33 PM PST by Chet 99
With President-elect Obama having resigned his Senate seat yesterday, folks may be wondering about what Vice President-elect Biden might do.
Biden told a local TV station right before Election Day he didn't want to resign his seat right away, leading to speculation about whether he is trying to deny the outgoing governor of Delaware -- Democrat Ruth Ann Minner -- the chance to appoint his successor.
Under that scenario, Biden would wait until moments before he is sworn in as vice president to resign his seat, which could enable the new governor, Jack Markell, to make the appointment.
Biden has been said for some time to be grooming his son Beau Biden to succeed him in the Senate. Beau is currently Delaware's Attorney General. He is on leave while he serves on active duty in the Delaware National Guard, where he is a captain.
Beau Biden is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq for about a year, making it unlikely he'd be appointed now to his father's seat. But he would be well positioned to run in 2010, when a special election will be held to fill the remaining four years of his father's term.
The current thinking then is that a placeholder would be appointed to fill the seat for two years until the younger Biden could run. The consensus choice of Delaware Democratic officials is the outgoing Lt. Gov. Jack Carney, who lost his own bid governor to Markell in a bitter primary.
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Petty power grasping scumbag.
Biden’s other son is a lobbyist and very close to living at the vertical bar hotel.
Enough of this new royalty where politicians now think that offices belong to them and their families. It is getting out of hand - Bush, Clinton, Bayh, Dodd, Murkowski, Udall, Dole, Levin, Biden, Cuomo, Kennedy. Whatever happened to representative government and government of the people.
Beau Biden has been groomed for this his entire life. His National Guard stint late in life (like Gary Hart 20 years ago) was just to get him some military service for his political resume’. The Bidens make it look like he’s a combat hero, but he’s a freakin JAG whose duties will include writing wills and prosecuting drug users and sexual harassment charges. The Army suckups will probably arrange for him to get a Silver Star while he’s there.
And the stupid morons in Delaware will vote for him.
You don’t even have to go through boot camp to be a JAG... except for the Marine JAGs...
Please - someone explain to the dumb sonuvabitch - we don’t have Royal or enTitled families in the U.S....
This applies to Massoftwoshits also....
The more power these Leftists secure, the more arrogant and grabby they become...
I suspect only the French Solution will turn things around.
Al Capone would just stare in awe at the modern Democratic Party.
Wow!
Change!
Hope!
This: IS CHANGE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
Enough of this new royalty where politicians now think that offices belong to them and their families. It is getting out of hand - Bush, Clinton, Bayh, Dodd, Murkowski, Udall, Dole, Levin, Biden, Cuomo, Kennedy.
Two more for your list: Mitt Romney (son of George Romney), John E. Sununu (son of John H. Sununu)...
There are no doubt even more. The desire to grab and hold power, and then to pass it down within a family, runs deep in certain bloodlines. Its ultimate effect is to sap the vigor of the body politic.
You're joking, right. JFK held his Senate seat for Teddy when he was elected President - he had a family friend fill the remainder of his term until Uncle Ted took over in 1962.
Answered your own question.
We're apparently heading in the same direction here in the PRNY where our non-choices to succeed Her Heinous include a degenerate ex-governor and a political neophyte who trades on her famous maiden name. I don't expect Governor Magoo to appoint a Republican, but it should not be too much to ask that the person be someone who has experience or a semblance of integrity. Of course, the current occupant of that Senate seat had neither when she carpetbagged her way into it in 2000, and after eight years, has only the experience to show for it. She will never have integrity. But I digress.
Heck, Richard Daley would be proud to see that his ideas had spread nationwide!
so how come the people of delware can’t hold a special election for the office that biden has vacated. and by the way turned down even though the really stupid people in delaware insist upon having this moron as senator.
Oh please let justice be done, oh please.... Crooks related to crooked pols are hardly ever brought to justice, let alone suffer any penalties for crimes they commit.
Are they figuring Lowey for the beast’s seat in NY? She had to stand aside when the beast ran in 2000.
I don’t think the family issue would be a problem since several Freepers suggested that once Sarah Palin was elected Vice President, and Ted Stevens resigned from the Senate that Sarah could appoint Todd Palin to take Ted Stevens Seat in the Senate.
Many Freepers are also convinced that the birth certificate means Obama will not become President on January 20th. That doesn’t make it so, however.
I get confused sometimes but from the best I can tell, Obama’s mother got pregnant by Malcolm X, renounced her U.S. citizenship and then dashed off to Kenya to give birth to Obama.
and in order to fool everyone into thinking this foreigner child was really American they gave him a really inconspicuous name like Barack Hussein
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