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.
Culture of corruption is open under new management.
Most corrupt Congress ever.
Pass a rule reinstituting dueling.
This once again.. shows that all Politics starts at the Grassroots. Massachusetts is controlled by the Democratic Mafia. The Massachusetts Democratic Party makes the decisions on all elections in their private Democratic Meetings.
Even if Scott Brown wins and his election is delayed until after the Health care vote.. this would be of HISTORIC proportions to have a Republican Senator from the State of Massachusetts, when is the last time that happened?
This guy looks like a winner.. http://scottbrown.com/splash.html
Shhh! they are about to take the Cheese..wait for the SNAP!
I’ll say this for Democrats....
they play to win.
Nobody expects ethics and honesty from Dems. Instead, we must overwhelm their fraud with votes, storm their defenses with protests and throw their corrupt little asses out of power.
A Brown victory would bring great attention to this delaying tactic and the corruption in Mass.
I don’t percieve a trap. Help me to see it.
I don’t see any remedy and think it will all pass.
Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee, have vowed to uphold Kennedy’s legacy and support health-care reform.
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So in other words they are not legitemate candidates.
Just running to continue Kennedy schemes.
If the people of Mass need any other proof. This should make them pause.
Kennedy is dead.
He is not a G-d.
But yet these Dums are treating Kennedy’s politics as some sort of religion that needs to be upheld.
Dums are evil.
These Democrat turds are as bad as their idol Hugo Chavez. As anti-Democratic.
The true thug party—The Democrats
is that a rhetorical question?
Well stated, but even before they get thrown out...
I feel like I received a top-notch ivy league level education in Advanced Hatred provided free of charge by the American Left during the entire 8 years of the Bush Administration.
Since they went to all the trouble of teaching me so much, and since a mind is a terrible thing to waste; I won't!
I will continue to give them the full Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals Treatment. I hope the weak-kneed Republican Party and conservatives throughout the land resort to using the enemy's tactics against him. Lord knows our mild mannered ways are getting us nowhere fast.
I saw the Coakley ad that boston.com posted and she’s even unlikable in that. She may lose because of her disappearance act, but she might have lost with twice the margin if she’d really been out there.
But one more week with both candidates keeping course and I think he could pull it out. Fingers crossed.
BUMP
Senator Edward Brooke- lost re-election to Paul Tsongas in 1978....
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remember NY-23, Pelosi had the goffball sworn in before the certificated results were in
Totally agree with this wisdom.
If America has learned anything during the Left's present ride to the top, they must come to understand the following as the new American standard for governance - "politics is war by other means".
If the GOP fails to heed to your advice and does not learn that lesson, then I feel that they are doomed to repeat the painfully reality we are living thru today.
Kirk walked into this trap and it’s a damned good issue for Brown to highlight RAT corruption.
If Brown wins and if the RATS try any such stunt, other RAT senators up for re-election will pull back... They don’t want another cloture vote anyway and they know Reid will soon be gone and BO can’t save them in November. Bayh, Webb, Lincoln all possibilities.
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