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Ted Kennedy might have a mean old liberal Democrat replacement in the Senate soon! All the Massachusetts legislature must do is change the comical law that Ted Kennedy forced it to enact in 2004, the one that prevented Gov. Mitt Romney from appointing a Republican to President John Kerry’s Senate seat. The legislature has moved up a hearing from October to early September on a bill that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint a temporary replacement to Kennedy’s seat, immediately. Patrick will be looking for a replacement with such qualifications as the ability to press the “yea” button on a health care reform bill, and nothing else. Would it be hypocritical of the Massachusetts state government to amend this law right now? Yes. Good GOD, yes! But who cares? [Salon/War Room]
Bring back Romney!
ITS BIG PAPI TIME !!1!
Hey, if one hastily-passed law for partisan gain doesn’t work, try two.
Patrick should appoint Chuck Grassley. He’s so sagacious and wise that he deserves two votes in the Senate.
Mittens must be throwing a fudge fit.
Eh, whatever. Tom DeLay would’ve done it.
Don’t we, like, have more unelected senators in the chamber right now than at any other point in our history? I didn’t realize just how many Obama bogarted until some bobblehead on NPR mentioned it. Eh, what’s one more? The Senate was supposed to be our House of Lords, anyway.
My suggestions: any Palin, Mitt Romney, Meg Stapleton, Dick Cheney, Rod Blagojevich, Henry Louis Gates, George Steinbrenner, Charlie K. Smith, or Tom Brady. These are your only options, Massachussettsttsts. CHoose wisely.
Suds McKenzie: Not a bad call, especially as the Senate doesn’t have a stringent drug testing policy
Do you mean “RedState hypocritical” or just “plain ol’ hypocritical”?
Hooray For Anything:
“Senator Papi, How do you vote on the resolution”?
Senator Papi; “Jess”
I thought all vacant Senate seats went to Ronald Burris?
SmutBoffin: Is that like the difference between “Liberace Gay” and “plain ol’ Gay”?
Tell the Massachusetts legislature to start honoring the troops by not making stuff up.
I still think they should appoint me. I’ll even work half price. Do I have to move to Massachusetts?
tehbenton: Used to be, weren’t none of the senators elected. That all changed with the 17th Amendment. This has been HoboSpaceJunkie’s Constitutional Minute.
I was gonna suggest the laughing buddhalike Ted pic for the prior Chuck Assley post, & voila, here it is! They’re sayin’ maybe Dukakis for the interim!
C’mon people, this is pure hypocrisy and for what?
So we can pass Chuck Grassleys Health care bill?
Can we have a little sense of fairness here? You know, people would respect us more if we had some standards and weren’t just like the Republicans (other than the killing and maiming, of course, and…you know…the pedophilia…in furry costumes….brrrrrr bleck). Play like this,
I meant what I said, I said what I meant, I liberal is honest, 100%
Worked for Horton
It sucks to be hoist on your own petard.
Massachusetts legislature to world: “Elections have consequences, bitches!”
OK, so I am supposed to just lurk here and not post comments because I am a GOP-hating Dem-hating libertarian.
But: Belichick. Clearly. Someone needs to get this bandwagon rolling, now.
The press conferences would be gold, also.
Nuthin’ to see here. No machine politicking at all, by God! MOVE ALONG!
Duval Patrick should appoint Skip Gates. Because Freeper threads are not lulzy enough.
libertardian: Why don’t you just stick to reading the Orange County Register and stay away from our Wonkette? Libertarians are only good for embarrassing our sacred national discourse. See, e.g., Megan McArdle.
I smell one Senator Michael “in the tank” Dukakis.
Gonna be the widow Vicki, I tells ya. She’ll have the honor of pressing that button what gets everyone healthy. For Ted!
I believe Andrew Sullivan is currently available, he’s in the area, and he speaks with a funny accent, too.
The downside to a Senator Sully would be no public option in the health care reform bill. The upside, however, would be that legistlation would be immediately passed demanding evidence of Trig Palin’s true parentage.
I thinks it smells, but no worse than some states’ habit (lookin’ at you, CA) to have about 20 freaking constitutional amendments up for grabs on every freaking ballot.
I’d like to have one D senator with actual balls (who’s not an SNL alum); someone who likewise pisses off the righties would be great; and Gov. Patrick already loves the gays, so c’mon, promote Barney Frank.
How ’bout the boy-rape denialist former Archbishop of Boston? Would be very bipartisan. A Dem appointee to suppor the GOP’s NAMBLA chapter.
V572625694: more like sagalicious, for those who like decrepitude with their necrophilia.
Okay, my ne plus ultra fantasy choice: Noam Chomsky. Major syntactic carnival time. Would love to see heads swirling round and round. Well, if not Noam how about Nim Chimpsky?
libertardian: Belichik would be great because he’d secretly videotape the Republican caucus so all the Democrats would know what their game plan was. Of course, that still wouldn’t help, but you never know.
Ted’s body is still warm, why not press him into service? He would still have a better grasp of reality than some a them there Republicants.
Hooray For Anything: Belichik = Nixon?
What’s hypocritical about consistently hatin’ on Republicans? Er, I mean, Repiglicant$? Also.