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Biden’s seat kept warm
thehill.com ^
| November 24, 2008
| Aaron Blake
Posted on 11/24/2008 7:18:30 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A loyal family friend was appointed to Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s vacant Senate seat Monday as an apparent placeholder until Beau Biden can inherit it upon his return from active duty in Iraq.
In one of her final acts in office, Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) selected Ted Kaufman, a longtime adviser and former chief of staff to the elder Biden, to be the state’s next senator.
Biden (D) won election as Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate but was simultaneously reelected to the Senate on Nov. 4. As he cannot take both jobs, there has been intense speculation since Election Day about whether Beau, the incumbent’s eldest son, would be his political heir.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 111th; beaubiden; bho2008; biden; de2008; electionussenate; kaufman; ussenate
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Reminds me of the seat warming done to get Ted Kennedy into Jack’s old Senate seat.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:20:14 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
Benjamin A. Smith II. Covered the Kennedy seat from 12-27-1960 to 11-7-1962.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:23:17 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I wasn’t aware that one could *inherit* an elected office....
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:24:39 PM PST
by
brytlea
(You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, they have to keep his seat warm or he gets brain freeze.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:26:19 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
To: Free ThinkerNY
How nice. Lordships handed down from father to son. Reminds me of the good ole days... oh!
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:28:36 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: brytlea
I wasn’t aware that one could *inherit* an elected office....BWAHAHA! You've obviously never been to Massachusetts or Chicago!
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:28:36 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: brytlea
I wasn’t aware that one could *inherit* an elected office....It's part of our new American aristocracy. Aren't you glad we fought a revolution against England?
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:28:41 PM PST
by
conservative cat
("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
To: brytlea
I wasn’t aware that one could *inherit* an elected office....These are pseudo-elections... with about as much reality as the elections held in the Soviet Union. Biden runs the DE Democrat Party, which will dutifully nominate his son, and the Democrats are the only show in town in DE. Nomination = election.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:29:45 PM PST
by
Chet 99
To: brytlea
Yes, Lord Biden can easily manage to pass to pass his Title and Peerage under the Oligarchy of Incumbency Statutes.
To: buccaneer81
Reminds me of Fitzsimmons keeping Jimmy Hoffa’s seat warm.
Fitz started liking it too much and oops “Where’s Jimmy ?”
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:36:24 PM PST
by
stylin19a
( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Isn't that illegal? What ever happen to the Constitution.
To: Emmett McCarthy; Chet 99; conservative cat; buccaneer81
How stupid Americans have become!
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:38:48 PM PST
by
brytlea
(You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Bawney Fwank keeps sniffing it.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:41:37 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: brytlea
Well, they’ve had a lot of help doing it - and they’re getting more all the time.
To: brytlea
How stupid Americans have become!It's not a recent phenomena. This has been going on in Mass since the 1920s.
Sad, infuriating and un-American.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:43:07 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Emmett McCarthy
True, but I’m beginning to think that the default setting on people is stupid.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:43:14 PM PST
by
brytlea
(You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
To: brytlea
Yeah, but just axe ‘em. They’ll tell you it’s not “dey fault”
To: brytlea
I wasn’t aware that one could *inherit* an elected office....It seems the Dems do it frequently.
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posted on
11/24/2008 7:56:16 PM PST
by
lonestar
To: Free ThinkerNY
Beau is guaranteed to win the seat. The Bidens are a family dynasty in Delaware. No - the GOP has no chance.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
11/24/2008 8:14:12 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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