[vetvetdoug]

I welcome the Democrats bringing all sorts of legalese into the Brown election if he wins. It will just substantiate the fact that the Democrats will stop at nothing to ram this down the electorates throat. If that happens maybe the country will turn viciously against all Democrats and the President and start a rabid reversal of what has been going on.

[samadams2000]

Publish the home addreses of the Democratic maching canditates and let the protesting begin.

[ChildOfThe60s]

And any Democratic move to slow-walk seating Brown in order to pass reform, Blando said, is "just naked, pure power politics where, at that point, you're just thwarting the will of the people."

OK, so this would just be a consistent continuation of what they've been doing all along on DeathCare. They've violated numerous rules getting it voted on to begin with. Bringing it out of committee without Republicans voting, for a start. Secret negotiations going on now with the Republican's locked out of the room. How's that for "thwarting the will of the people"?

I don't see that being some sort of ethical roadblock to the fascists.

[JasonC]

The left are out and out crooks and lost their last allegiance to democracy about five exits back. If they play this game one or two more times, nobody will bother paying any attention to elections or elected anybody's. We'll pick our own leaders in our own ways, and they simply won't be invited to participate. At all.

[Hardshell]

Here's a scenario that I've been wondering about.....What if Brown soundly defeats Coakley...then meets with a rather untimely demise? Will Kirk still hold on to his Senate seat? Of course I'm not suggesting anything about anybody......but life is stranger than fiction, you know.....

[potlatch]

The dems have a dem-ilemma dilemma, lol.

[Stultis]

Obama and congressional Democrats held marathon White House meetings to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions of reform and craft a final bill that can pass Congress.

Funny. I've had C-Span on for days, and never saw these.

Even funnier, aren't both houses of congress out of session, and have been for weeks? If the content of legislation is going to be decided by secret, extra-legal, single-party confabs in the White House, why have a legislature at all? (Rhetorical question ... FOR NOW.)

[OrangeHoof]

The minute the results are official, the Brown lawyers should be in DC asking for a restraining order with any legal body that might have jurisdiction.

I hope the GOP also argues that were it not for the monkey business used to put Kirk in office in the first place, we would not even have this debate. The post would be vacant from the time Teddy keeled over to the time a replacement was duly elected.

[airborne]

Not if Scott wins by a landslide!!!

[1_Rain_Drop]

When Bill Owens won NY 23, wasn’t he certified instantly?

[ricks_place]

Massachusetts' Law Section 140 of chapter 54 of the General Laws

(f) Upon failure to choose a senator in congress or upon a vacancy in that office, the governor shall make a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy; provided, however, that the person so appointed shall serve until the election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy pursuant to subsection (a) or (c).

All Massachusetts US Senate Candidates are already qualified by the terms of the US Constitution. The Massachusetts legislature probably should have said until certification if they wanted to keep the appointed Senator in office after election but before certification. Massachusetts' interim Senator Paul Kirk is out by law at election even before certification by plain reading the law code. LOL

[Nateman]

Kirk holds his seat illegally from day one. The law said a special election had to be held. They changed the law to let the governor pick the replacement after Ted died. This is ex post facto. You don’t get to change the rules after the outcome is already known. Kirk’s vote on anything should be null and void.

[OrioleFan]

Obamski will just instruct Reid to buy off Olympia Snowe.

[Brugmansian]

We need a name for what Democrats do when they lose an election and use recounts, lawyers and the court to pull out a win.

I suggest "Al Franken" the election.

Any other ideas?

[chris_bdba]

Anyone know the law in MA? How close does it have to be for a recount? Most states it has to be less than 3% so I have to assume if he wins by more than that then the only thing they can do is stall his seating for 10 days. MA law as I read it says after Tuesday the interium’s vote of null and void.

[brushcop]

“Legal battles” be damned, FIGHT ON!

[STARWISE]

Pray and be prepared for Bush/Gore 2000 redux .. and pray more ... PING!

I fully expect that all the filthy Dem tactics are being set in place now. Lawyers are en route, if not already there.

Remember Al Franken ..... PRAY!

[Allegra]

I have no doubt that if Brown wins, these thugs will do everything in their power to throw up roadblocks to prevent Brown taking the seat.

These people do not care about our representative, republic process working.

They only care about power so that they can ram their socialist agenda down our throats.

This election just may be the straw that breaks the camel's back if the thugs try to steal it as they did the one in Minnesota.