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1 posted on 05/22/2008 1:40:27 PM PDT by wsjreader
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Makes me wonder, what is he trying to hide?


2 posted on 05/22/2008 1:41:37 PM PDT by A Cyrenian
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But there is the little thing about election. Do the Massachusetts voters simply nod their heads when told by their political betters what to acquiesce in?

I should have thought they’d have more dignity.

Guess not.


3 posted on 05/22/2008 1:42:20 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
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AVI NELSON

4 posted on 05/22/2008 1:42:56 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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And the pathetic electorate of MA will re-elect her till she dies. That obviously is the Kennedy seat in the Senate and no one else need apply.


5 posted on 05/22/2008 1:44:02 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: MassachusettsGOP; GOPsterinMA; ProCivitas; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; ...

This is mildly surprising.


6 posted on 05/22/2008 1:44:08 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)
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How does one INHERIT a Senate seat?

That isn’t covered in Kennedy’s inheritence tax is it?

Can we pick over the distribution of his estate and see how many tax shelters he used?


7 posted on 05/22/2008 1:44:10 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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bump


8 posted on 05/22/2008 1:44:13 PM PDT by lowbridge ("I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it" - Van Den Boogaard)
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That’s not gonna fly here. There are too many democrats salivating over that seat. And I don’t think the people will go for it either. The Senate isn’t the House of Lords. Time to give somebody else a chance. 1952 to 2008 is long enough.


9 posted on 05/22/2008 1:44:27 PM PDT by cotton1706
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He apparently thinks his family has title to his appointment.

Sadly, not unlike other political families....

He knows nothing of our history....or refuses to acknowledge it.

I fear for my country...........

11 posted on 05/22/2008 1:45:22 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Don't Hose Me, Bro...!!!)
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Maybe if she doesn’t want it we can give the Senate seat to his landscaper or whoever else Ted wants.


13 posted on 05/22/2008 1:45:42 PM PDT by Williams
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Well, most of my sympathy just evaporated... that is revolting.


15 posted on 05/22/2008 1:47:21 PM PDT by backhoe
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Nikki Tsongas Redux!


17 posted on 05/22/2008 1:48:38 PM PDT by Disturbin (Liberals: buying votes with your tax dollars)
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If she can win an election - it’s fine with me. But to give? Nah. It’s as if Kennedy gave her the moon — and she tried to collect. It’s just not his to “give” away.


19 posted on 05/22/2008 1:49:25 PM PDT by GOPJ
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Hasn’t this come up a few times before, like with Mary Bono Mack?


21 posted on 05/22/2008 1:49:39 PM PDT by sakic
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Don’t they know about the Glass Ceiling?


22 posted on 05/22/2008 1:51:04 PM PDT by fish hawk (Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.)
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Nobody leaves here alive.

Not even Ted.

23 posted on 05/22/2008 1:51:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (No government can compete with the black market for drugs in financial compensation for LEOs.)
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Massachusetts Democrats are going to want to give his seat to someone who might stand a chance of re-election.

Deval Patrick is capable of anything, but I doubt whether his handlers would let him do this, even if he agreed. Too much risk of letting a RINO get in when the term is up.


26 posted on 05/22/2008 1:54:13 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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That’s wrong. The people should be the ones to decide.


35 posted on 05/22/2008 2:03:14 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Joan Kennedy, Ted's true wife, mother of his three children, is going to be a Senator?

Sarcasm aside, I vehemently disagree with Ted's politics and public behavior, I do feel a bit sorry for a man who has shouldered so much sorrow, like the untimely deaths of 4 siblings, including 2 who were assassinated. God only knows how any of us might react. Prayers for repentence and either a quick recovery or the grace of a happy death, and a quicker retirement in any event.

36 posted on 05/22/2008 2:04:38 PM PDT by informavoracious (Freedom Isn't Free)
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Does the MA legislature have enough time to change the law back to Governor appointment before he passes and the special election is held?

Then what are the consequences of that? Can Republicans file suit to block such a law on the grounds that this action makes obvious the ploy to deny only a Republican governor the Senate appointment power in MA?

-PJ

37 posted on 05/22/2008 2:05:12 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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