If man doesn't impose them, God for sure will!
Anyone think Mary Jo Kopechne will be there at the Pearly Gates to greet Teddy to Heaven?
Posted on 08/20/2009 2:24:37 AM PDT by prisoner6
BOSTON (AP) — A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.
The note to Gov. Deval Patrick and the state's Senate president and House speaker acknowledges the state changed its succession law in 2004 to require a special election to fill any vacancy. At the time, legislative Democrats were concerned Republican Gov. Mitt Romney would be able to fill any vacancy created as Sen. John Kerry ran for president.
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Hey drooling Ted. RESIGN already. Pass the baton you old vile coot.
I’ll bet Ted didn’t actually write a word. A stoogie did.
They are Stalinist. The rules and the vote counting must be adjusted back and forth so that they seize power every time. It isn’t about the will of the people. It isn’t about consistency. It is about seizing power at whatever cost.
I'm sure you can tell. That's Joan in the forefront and Victoria behind her.
He doesn’t need a replacement. They can just reduce his morphine, roll him in on a stretcher and tell him to say “aye”.
someone should take this to Court...
if this stands, then we will see more Florida voting, more Minn. voting...where different rules apply to different people....
but I've given up on the stupid people of Mass...its run by the mob and people will vote for their mob bosses....
Nice to see the Kennedy deathgrip being extracted from politics.
I'm just getting to this thread now, so sorry if I post something already discussed. Yours is the first post I got to.
Resigning now won't speed up the process. It would probably freeze out the choice he's asking for, because the special election process would automatically begin, making it too late for the legislature to change it once it has started.
Kennedy doesn't want to give the people a chance to vote for a Republican -- he wants to ensure that the seat goes to a Democrat to preserve the 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate. In fact, with Kennedy immobilized, the Senate is not filibuster-proof now. Kennedy cannot vote absentee -- he must be present to vote.
He wants the legislature to change the law while he's still in the Senate, then he'll resign. Once he resigns, it's too late the change the rules regarding his replacement, as the Governor will be under pressure to set the date of the special election, if the law doesn't already specify it.
-PJ
I think Mitt Romney ought to throw his name into the hat for the Senator’s seat in the special election. Kennedy is worried that the backlash on the healthcare will put a republican in his seat - WOW wouldn’t THAT be justice!
That would give Romney the leverage to rally support against the Democrats, declaring that they're trying to steal his opportunity to run for the seat from him, by changing the very law that they took from him in the first place.
-PJ
Amazing... they make a special law to prevent a Republican governor from appointing a senator, and now that they have a senator they want to replace it’s all “Oh nevermind what we said before, let’s do it the old way this time.”
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Because given the current political mood, there’s an even chance a Republican might win a special election in Mass.
It’s just too bad that MA voters weren’t smart enough to “replace” him a great many elections ago.
The press greatly over-estimates the “love” the American people have for this bloated, privileged, self-entitled murderer and drunk.
Oh boy- we get wall-to-wall coverage when this POS bites it.
You forgot attendance by Sir O’slama of Spamalot. ...with Lady Hips and court to follow.
I think people have been asking for a speedy replacement for Kennedy since he killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
This disenfrancises voters. Ted Kennedy is an Orwellian “basterd”
There was a little blurb late at night last week that he was paralized and unable to talk......So how did he write the letter? Something’s fishy
If one must live in MA, just please say only one person lives at your house come census time.
Blue states need to lose population.
Slimy, lowlife hypocrites!
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