“Brown win could spark legal battle”
Color me stuned.
Here we go. (Sigh)
BUMP
Democrats Plot Healthcare End Run if GOP Wins in Massachusetts
Sunday, 17 Jan 2010 07:10 PM
NEWSMAX.COM
BOSTON – A panicky White House and Democratic allies scrambled Sunday for a plan to salvage their hard-fought health care package in case a Republican wins Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts, which would enable the GOP to block further Senate action.
I tactfully asked him WHY he was going to vote for Brown and his answer was: “Because of the healthcare bill Obama is trying to pass.” I carefully agreed with him and reinforced the fact that Obama wants to gut Medicare/Medicaid by taking away 500 BILLION DOLLARS from the system and that if he adds 40 million people to the rolls, especially illegal aliens the health care system would collapse… I told him that Brown is an honorable man and that he is totally opposed to the “healthcare” bill and would vote against it… MY DAD AGREED! I was flabbergasted!
If my own father; a life-long Massachusetts FDR Democrat who has voted for EVERY Kennedy, Kerry/democrat to ever come down the pike, is going to vote for Scott Brown, a REPUBLICAN, BECAUSE OF HIS OPPOSITION TO Obama and his evil healthcare debacle then things are looking VERY promising for Scott Brown and we could all be in for an incredible victory on Tuesday. To this end I am fervently praying.
Ummm, yes, in a close election it could spark a recount. Is 10% a close election?
Sounds to me like they are grasping @ straws. Won't Kirk remain Senator until Brown is sworn-in?
Brown win could spark civil war.
The magnitude of Brown's win and the extent of any obvious procedural delays will probably be remembered in the fall when elections are next held, about nine months from now.
There wouldn't seem to be much point in being particularly nice to Barack if all he can do for your political career is deliver the kind of dull, rambling, yawn inducing speech he produced today for Martha Coakley. The SEIU and Acorn troops are going to be spread pretty thin this November, anyway.
So much for it being the “peoples” seat.
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe need to stay in the Republican fold.
HE SHOULD show up at the Senate and assume his seat. And stay there unless security carries him out...This is bull sheeet...
This is out country...This is our Country... This is our country...
It's no surprise that Politico didn't seek out law experts who subscribe to the Senate precedents laid out in this article, Can Senator Kirk Vote after January 19?
-PJ
Then they will try to get the House to pass the thing the Senate has already passed and send IT to Obama.
Pathetic.
Weekly Standard quote below... I thought there was legal precedence that firmly establish Kirk term ends after the election, along with a pesky amendment to the Constitution.
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The Republican lawyers also said Senate precedent is clear on when a new senator’s term begins and the term of an appointed senator ends. In a number of cases, the pay of a senator who replaces an appointee was determined to begin on the day after the senator’s election.
When Republican John Tower of Texas was elected to the Senate in 1961, he wasn’t certified until April 17. But his pay as a senator began on April 2, the day after his election. Strom Thurmond was elected senator from South Carolina in 1956, succeeding an appointed senator. A resolution introduced by then-Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson established his Senate term to have begun the day after his election, weeks before his certification.
Wow, 26 posts and no captain obvious pic.....
Ted Kennedy November 7, 1962(Special election)- August 25, 2009 (Died)
Gee, old Ted got to be a Senator the day of the election. Imagine that!
Answer: Because that was then and this is now and Obama won and we say so.
-PJ