Any of you Freepers dumb enough to expect ethics and honesty from either the Mass Rats or the MSM?
Posted on 01/09/2010 5:24:34 AM PST by Zakeet
As Republican Scott Brown’s campaign warms up to take Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts, Frank Quaratiello of the Boston Herald is reporting something shocking: if Brown wins, Massachusetts Democrats may drag out his certification as the victor to enable appointed Sen. Paul Kirk (the former DNC chairman) to put ObamaCare over the top.
"We want to get this resolved before President Obama’s State of the Union address in early to mid-February," Kirk told reporters at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast..."Absolutely," Kirk said, when asked if he’d vote for the bill, even if Brown captures the seat. "It would be my responsibility as United States senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy’s agenda. . . . I think you’re asking me a hypothetical question but I’d be pleased to vote for the bill."
After all the rule-bending shenanigans of the Massachusetts Democrats, leaving a dying Kennedy in office, and then ramrodding Kirk's appointment to the Senate to help ObamaCare, now they're desperate enough to ignore the people's vote?
It's one thing to immediately swear in Democrats, claiming a public mandate, as House Speaker Pelosi did in the Scozzafava and Garamendi special elections last year. It's another scandal entirely to delay a swearing-in -- telling the people that their elected choice shall not be allowed to represent their most current wishes. Will the national media notice? It certainly has national ramifications. The Herald story elaborated:
Few have considered the Jan. 19 election as key to the fate of national health-care reform because both Kirk and front-runner state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee, have vowed to uphold Kennedy’s legacy and support health-care reform.But if Brown wins, the entire national health-care reform debate may hinge of when he takes over as senator. Brown has vowed to be the crucial 41st vote in the Senate that would block the bill.
The U.S. Senate ultimately will schedule the swearing-in of Kirk’s successor, but not until the state certifies the election.
Today, a spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin William Galvin, who is overseeing the election but did not respond to a call seeking comment, said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor’s Council would take a while.
"Because it’s a federal election," spokesman Brian McNiff said. "We’d have to wait 10 days for absentee and military ballots to come in."
Another source told the Herald that Galvin’s office has said the election won’t be certified until Feb. 20 - well after the president’s address.
Since the U.S. Senate doesn’t meet again in formal session until Jan. 20, Bay State voters will have made their decision before a vote on health-care reform could be held. But Kirk and Galvin’s office said today a victorious Brown would be left in limbo.
In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan. In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
If we had a national media that was truly nonpartisan and cared about fair play, this would be a big story. Instead, we often see a Democrat-favoring, Kennedy-adoring media that cares about liberal results first, and the rest is all poli-sci "process."
For his part, Scott Brown certainly had something to say:
"This is a stunning admission by Paul Kirk and the Beacon Hill political machine," said Brown in a statement. "Paul Kirk appears to be suggesting that he, Deval Patrick, and (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid intend to stall the election certification until the health care bill is rammed through Congress, even if that means defying the will of the people of Massachusetts."As we’ve already seen from the backroom deals and kickbacks cut by the Democrats in Washington, they intend to do anything and everything to pass their controversial health care plan. But threatening to ignore the results of a free election and steal this Senate vote from the people of Massachusetts takes their schemes to a whole new level. Martha Coakley should immediately disavow this threat from one of her campaign’s leading supporters."
Coakley offered the Herald reporter no comment.
Any of you Freepers dumb enough to expect ethics and honesty from either the Mass Rats or the MSM?
I am sad to say that i don’t find this surprising at all. The solution is for the pubbies to use any delaying tactic possible.
This is truly an...
nothing they do surprises me. They have no scruples. They are shameless
I wonder if they’d wait 10 days for military ballots if it was a close presidential election?
Brown is now running some hard-hitting ads on both TV and radio and getting much exposure on Boston-area talk radio.
As for Coakley, she has been pretty much invisible. I'm expecting her picture to start turning up on milk cartons at the supermarket.
If only one rat senator dies the problem will be solved.
Yep, the will of the people be damned.
Any suggestions?
If only one rat senator dies the problem will be solved.
Any suggestions?
There. Fixed it.
Whether it works or not this is definitely a time to show up in huge numbers and let the world know that we won't tolerate this corruption any longer.
Please try it! That will be a nice fire storm that make Novemmber even more fun.
He will have to try to get in quickly via the courts if he wins. That should be interesting.
There was a punk rock band some years ago that called themselves the “Dead Kennedy`s” Was never a fan of punk rock, just mentioning it in passing.
“by ANY means necessary”!!
This is Malcolm X’s Democrat party of Tyranny.
AND - when they are thrown out by America in 2010, these SAME standards of operation will be applied to them by their new leaders.
They have changed the rules of the game and now so those same rules shall be enforced.
A denunciation would probably give her a bounce, because voters would say "oh, she's more honest than we thought." But I don't expect this to happen...
Brown needs to pre-empt this!
He needs an ad which features all the Massachusetts crooks (see my profile if you need an education in that dept), then mention how they changed the rule to pick a replacement senator, then switched it back to this system, then how they now want to delay that result.
Nope !!
I agree, this should surprise nobody. And I challenge any DU to show me an example of when the GOP has pulled a stunt like this.
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