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January 09, 2010
MA Senate Seat-Dems 1, Voters 0
This in from Frank Quaratiello at the Boston Herald:
It looks like the fix is in on national health-care reform - and it all may unfold on Beacon Hill. At a business forum in Boston today, interim Sen. Paul Kirk predicted that Congress would pass a health-care reform bill this month.“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.
The longtime aide and confidant of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who was handpicked by Gov. Deval Patrick after a controversial legal change to hold Kennedy’s seat, vowed to vote for the bill even if Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, who opposes the health-care reform legislation, prevails in a Jan. 19 special election.
“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.”
Once upon a time, the Governor of Massachusetts would pick an interim replacement for a Senator, should something happen to the original Senator. The “Lion of the Senate” Ted Kennedy had that changed back when Mitt Romney was governor, presumably to make sure that the Republicans could never get a toe-hold into the Senate. Of course, that was no longer needed once Deval Patrick, a fellow Democrat, got the office. So once Sen. Kennedy shuffled off this mortal coil, the Democrats desperately needed to make sure the interim Senator would maintain their 60 vote super-majority. So the law was changed once again and Paul Kirk got the seat.
But now there is a special election, and there is a decent chance that Republican contender Scott Brown may defeat state AG Martha Coakley, which would end the super-majority and jeopardize ObamaCare.
Naturally, the Dems can't have that.
They will do whatever they can to blunt the will of the people and drag out the confirmation process until well after the State of the Union Address, the deadline imposed to get this bill passed. Never mind the fact that Brown would most certainly be elected for the specific purpose of defeating ObamaCare, by thusly refusing to allow Brown to cast his vote, they will cheerfully stomp all over the will of the people.
But oh, it's just the rules, right? There's no way the Dems would ever allow a candidate to be rushed through for a crucial vote, right?
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.
Uh huh. Double standards and hypocrisy. And with Reid and the other Communists running our Senate, pushing through a cloture vote to end debate before it even starts, and now deciding that 40% of the Senate and the people they represent are not worthy to participate in legislation that will effect one-sixth of the economy and every man, woman, and child in the US...except, of course, the Senators, Congressmen, and President who are cramming this down our throats.
Crossposted at JBYP
Posted by TFMo at January 9, 2010 12:12 AM
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