FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2009 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. arrives at the home of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver in Hyannis Port, Mass.
Posted on 08/23/2009 3:17:48 PM PDT by WhiteCastle
Kennedy wants the Legislature to upend the succession law it passed in 2004, when - at his urging - it stripped away the governor’s longstanding power to temporarily fill a Senate vacancy. Back then, John Kerry was a presidential candidate and Republican Mitt Romney was governor; Kennedy lobbied state Democrats to change the law so that Romney couldn’t name Kerry’s successor.
They followed his advice with gusto. When the final vote took place, the Boston Globe reported, “hooting and hollering broke out on the usually staid House floor,’’ and House Speaker Thomas Finneran acknowledged candidly: “It’s a political deal. It’s very raw politics.’’
It still is. Now that Massachusetts has a Democratic governor, Kennedy is lobbying to restore the gubernatorial power to name an interim appointee. That would guarantee Democrats in Washington two reliable Senate votes from Massachusetts, even if Kennedy isn’t there to cast one of them.
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literally everything is politics to a leftist.
The dems are like a bunch of Bolsheviks changing the rules constantly to fit themselves.
SWEET!
Title SHOULD have been: “Kennedy SHOULD have resigned 40 years ago”.
And to think that our first stands for American liberty actually took place in that state.
The people in Massachusetts need to remember what happened when that jackass “governor” in Chicago decided to fill Barry Soetoro’s seat. Pay to play can get really ugly.
Kennedy is a fricking fascist. This is nothing but leftists fascism.
Actual Title: Kennedy should resign
It somehow manages not to spell like a drunk.
Have you heard of "copy" and "paste"?
What the folks in Mass SHOULD send The Swimmer (instead of what he asked for) is a New pair of SPEEDOS and a note saying, GO FISH.
Jacoby is the token conservative at the Boston Globe-Democrat. Think the editorial staff would agree?
Should have added: But beneath the tug at the heartstrings, there is always shrewd political calculation “on how best to further sink the U.S.”
lol
The fact is that Kennedy should resign because he is unlikely ever to be able to do his job again. That’s just a fact and has nothing to do with the fact that I wish he’d never had the job in the first place. It would be ironic if this massive fiasco failed because there was no Kennedy vote to cast for it. His ego is too big for his party’s own good.
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2009 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. arrives at the home of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver in Hyannis Port, Mass.
Either he’s slumping in his seat or he’s shorter than I thought. The seat belt is way too high.
He is still riding on his brothers coattails.
United States Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. , center, rides in a golf cart along with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, behind left, on a wharf in Hyannis Port, Mass. , Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Kennedy, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008, has been spending much of his time on the family's compound in Hyannis Port.
Take comfort old friends, the whore Ted will soon be dead.
With great pleasure I write these words.....
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