Bwaaahaaahaaaa
Posted on 09/15/2009 4:09:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Joe Wilson may have paved the way to send former Gov. Michael Dukakis to Washington—in time to vote for health-care reform from Ted Kennedy’s seat, influential Massachusetts Democrats tell The Daily Beast.
Rep. Joe Wilson’s loss of self-control during President Barack Obama’s address to Congress could give Senate Democrats a crucial 60th vote as they try to block Republican filibusters this fall. Wilson’s outburst has moved Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature closer to fulfilling Senator Ted Kennedy’s dying wish—to change state law on how his empty seat would be filled. And that could well put Michael Dukakis in the Senate.
Massachusetts, now short one U.S. senator, is weighing whether to return power to the governor to appoint an interim senator until a special election is held in January. As Kennedy, an astute head counter, argued before his death in a letter to state legislative leaders, the change would give the state two votes on crucial Senate legislation over the next five months.
So who will fill the coveted interim slot? Influential Democrats at the statehouse tell me that the front-runner is none other than Dukakis. He is a trim and fit 75 years old, has started and runs a public-policy program at Northeastern University, and remains—despite having lost a race a lot of people thought he could have won in 1988—a much-admired figure in Massachusetts. Last November, more than 1,000 friends and supporters paid from $2,500 to $100,000 to sponsor the launching of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern. He has national stature and is the policy wonk’s wonk, but his main qualification is being an A-list candidate who is willing to serve only five months. Filling Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat would be a capstone to his career.
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You can be certain it has nothing to do with Wilson. Massachusetts is determined to destroy the nation, no matter what.
Representative Wilson has nothing to do with Dims filling a vacant Senate seat in Mass. If the Dims in MA are using Wilson as an excuse to change their law (again), then to hell with them all...
That's quite the logic leap.
Bwaaahaaahaaaa
It won’t make a difference. Barring some unforseen GREAT FORTUNE for the rats, this dog won’t hunt.
I agree. ‘Pod.
They were going to do it anyway, Wilson or no Wilson.
Did anyone expect a conservative to be appointed? A moderate?
lol yeah and this will be etched on his gravestone:
Any chance he'll roll into DC in his tank?
“Wilson’s outburst has moved Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature closer to fulfilling Senator Ted Kennedy’s dying wish—to change state law on how his empty seat would be filled. And that could well put Michael Dukakis in the Senate.”
Bullshit. Like the Rats in MassiveTwoShits need an excuse to be commies...
The diminutive Dukakis to the Senate?
Beware of Greeks wearing lifts.
If anybody really believes that Kennedy wrote that letter requesting the law be changed YET AGAIN to favor the Democrats, well, I have some land in Florida CHEAP that you might be interested in.
Anyone that saw those pics of him the last few days he had on this earth, it's plain to see he couldn't mark an 'X' let alone write a letter to somebody. This is the Democrats, yet again, trying to capitalize on his death. Strange how nobody has even brought up this angle yet.
Agreed.
The article premise is silly.
Does anybody think they have 59 now? They don’t, or they’d be at it much harder.
I just got this image in my head of Dukakis driving a tank off a bridge.
LOL! Oh, why not? State tradition :-)
How dumb do they think people are? They were going to do it anyway.
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