The bill was enacted by the House, 95-59, and by the Senate, 24-16, after only brief speeches by lawmakers. Lawmakers did not pass, however, an emergency preamble to the law...
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The current composition of the House is 141 Democrats and 19 Republicans. The current composition of the Senate is 35 Democrats, 5 Republicans. (No typo: only 12% of the lawmakers in MA are Republicans)
Assuming (dangerous in MA) all the Republicans voted against, 40 Democrats in the House and 11 Dems in the Senate voted against the bill. (Actually I don’t have much problem with the bill as written, except that it should have been written 50 years ago and never questioned after that due to political effects.) Those 40 Democrats essentially neutered this in the current situation since they withheld effective power to appoint in this situation by not including the emergency clause.
Glenn Beck has been all over the place saying that the present situation in this country is not a Democrat vs. Republican thing, and I agree. There ARE “good” (meaning law-respecting here) Democrats. On the basis of this single vote, 24(100%) Republicans and 51(29%) Democrats in the Massachusetts General Court get “good” points.
We have to get the Democrats with us against this corruption, and here is an example that we can use.
I hear what you're saying, AFP, but holy crap. With Marxists controlling the Dem Party right now, and the rampant corruption/abuse of power, what's it gonna take for these "good" Dems to actually say "enough"?
A vote is a vote--and it remains to be seen if Harry Reid seats the interim appointee (I think he will and fast--harder to undo), but unless and until some of these Democrats start speaking out against the hard-left Marxists, I don't have a very high opinion of any of them.
I beat up on Republicans when it's deserved. Always have. Truth is truth.
I'm going to have to give you a 5 star moron badge.
It goes to the core of the Democrat party to rig the rules. That is the essense of big govt. It is to rig the rules to get the outcome you desire. That is AT THE CENTRAL CORE OF THE DEMOCRATS.