Bipartisan support for Kennedy's widow to assume seat (Vicki Reggie Kennedy)

Washington Examiner ^ | 8/30/09 | Susan Ferrechio

[Dick Bachert]

Washington needs (pick one or more)
___ANOTHER LAWYER?

___ANOTHER KENNEDY?

___ANOTHER LIBERAL?

___ANOTHER COMMUNITY ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER?

___NONE OF THE ABOVE?

[mwilli20]

Pillow talk is relevant qualification?

That argument worked for our Secretary of State...

[linn37]

I vote no. Just because you were porking some old fat rich dude does not mean you are entitled to a seat in the senate.

[wildbill]

I’ve never believed in the election of districts or senatorships as an inheiritance of widows

[celtic gal]

First of all this woman just laid to rest the man SHE loved. These seat vultures should let her mourn in her own way and let her alone. She has the projects which interest her.
Secondly, I think we need to stop this seat warming and inheritance notion with regard to Senate and Congressional seats. The law in MASS now is for an election and that is what it should be, an honest election. That said, it matters not much if a Kennedy or member of the Kennedy clan runs for the seat..the dummies in MASS who continued to elect the likes of Teddy, Barney etc will just do it all over again.

[andy58-in-nh]

What is wrong with Senator Hatch is the same thing wrong with almost all Republican Senators and many representatives as well: the political equivalent of "Stockholm Syndrome", which describes the behavior of kidnap victims who, over time, become sympathetic to their captors.

In our Congress, it describes the behavior of a timid minority party that has come to love being a minority (just as they once did in the 1960s and 70s), because it relieves them of serious responsibility while limiting personal invective and abuse at the hands of the majority and their news media mouthpieces.

[WestTexasWend]

Given the crush of DC geezers that openly adore her, it’s likely she’ll have her pick of senior suitors.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Bi-partisan" meaning just about every RAT in the country.

And McLame

[Dante3]

Looks increasingly like we have a one party system. I was convinced of it after the GOP nominated McCain to throw the election.

[Blue Jays]

I assuming by "porking" Senator Ted Kennedy you literally mean providing huge portions of barbecued pork on his dinner plate?
Given his huge size, it only makes sense.

[jersey117]

Right now, I’m more angry at the Republicans for putting up with this crap. Enough already. Out with McCain - out with Hatch - out with Snowe out with all of them.

[Yaelle]

"One must always remember one's line of succession. I'm ready and able to rule."

[Gay State Conservative]

Given the crush of DC geezers that openly adore her, it’s likely she’ll have her pick of senior suitors.

If she signed a prenup...no way! If she didn't...you betcha!

[Candor7]

How many kids did she bear Teddy? Just curious.

I think Tom DeLay would make a better stand in for Teddy than his widow.

[bushfamfan]

Leave it to Orrin Hatch to show how far gone he is. Either these people get thrown out of the GOP or it is dead and conservatives need to find a new home. You cannot have a reliant opposition to the radicalism going on now when you have idiots like this giving them free reign. I have to say I despise Hatch and I used to like the man, but he has problems.

[pabianice]

Too bad Patrick “The Idiot” Kennedy is already in the House. He’d be the perfect seat-warmed for his dad. Stupid, derranged, corrupt, drug and alcohol addled, and a serial adulterer.

[dfwgator]

Well at least there is no inbreeding amongst the Kennedys from what I know.

[Yaelle]

He became the confidante of former Louisiana Gov. Edwin W. Edwards, and availed himself of legislative scholarships targeted at needy students that allowed all six of his children, including Vicki, to attend Tulane University tuition free, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported in 1995. Reggie told the paper he had done nothing wrong. “It was a perfectly legal thing to do, so I availed myself of it,” he said then.

Wow, they really were a match made in heaven.

[Recovering_Democrat]

HOW ABOUT FOLLOWING THE DAMN LAW, YOU JERKS, INSTEAD OF CHANGING IT EVERY TIME A KENNEDY DEMANDS A CHANGE?!?

Good God, are the people of Massachusets so 'effing infatuated with their mythical little royal family that they want to piss all over the rule of law?!!!??????

Unbelievable.

[Gay State Conservative]

Out with McCain - out with Hatch - out with Snowe out with all of them.

With McLame and Hatch you're correct.AZ and UT can easily do much,*much* better than them.But,given today's (sad) reality in Maine,you throw Snowe out and you're *guaranteed* to get a RAT who'll vote with Hussein *100%* of the time rather than Snowe's 85%.