Posted on 08/20/2009 2:24:37 AM PDT by prisoner6
BOSTON (AP) — A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.
The note to Gov. Deval Patrick and the state's Senate president and House speaker acknowledges the state changed its succession law in 2004 to require a special election to fill any vacancy. At the time, legislative Democrats were concerned Republican Gov. Mitt Romney would be able to fill any vacancy created as Sen. John Kerry ran for president.
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prisoner6
Gotta ensure another droolingly stupid lib replaces this droolingly stupid lib, right?
He wants his wife to replace him. If he wants to speed up the process, he could resign now.
Yep, dejaTorricelli all over again. Just keep changing the rules and making stuff up as needed as you go along to suit yourselves.
Here’s hoping the SOB lives long enough to see Deathcare crash and burn .
Don’t like the law?
Write a poignant letter....
Screw you Ted, ES&D.
It would be rather humorous
to find the Dims a vote short
cause Teddy was holding on to power too long.
Serve them right the bastages.
Umm... I just woke up but, Ted isnt in Congress. He is in the Senate
So: It’s Vital that the people of Mass have Two voices in the Senate, to Speak FOR them, but he wants State Law changed, to CHEAT THEM OUT OF deciding through AN ELECTION, Who does the speaking/deciding For them.
Democracy: Democrat Style.
ABC news reported that Ted wasn’t at his sisters funeral last week. You know Robert Byrd wasn’t there either.
Amazing... they make a special law to prevent a Republican governor from appointing a senator, and now that they have a senator they want to replace it’s all “Oh nevermind what we said before, let’s do it the old way this time.”
When it comes to bald-faced audacity, you can never beat a lib.
Senate is part of Congress. Congress has two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate. I think I got that right.
BTW who becomes President Pro Tempore when KKK Byrd shuffles off this mortal coil?
He's in Congress as Congress has two houses. The House of Representatives and the Senate.
The current President pro tempore of the Senate is Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia).[2] By custom, the next Senators in line likely to be elected President pro tempore are Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.
Thanks.
I need coffee
He has been living on stolen time for 40 years.
Yep, we need two laws on this topic. One to neuter Republicans, one to give democrats unlimited power.
We would have simplified, and written one law to cover everything, no matter which party had the power, but we couldn’t figure out how to write that.
So, we have two separate laws. We amend the law at will, depending on which party has power.
The next longest serving Democrat will replace Byrd when that happens.
Gotta look up who it is.
Nah what makes it confusing is the Reps are called congressmen and the senators are usually called senators.
You did.
See post #14
This just in:
Kennedy’s letter actually asks for the law to provide for a title of nobility, based on the de facto royalty that the kennedy family has become, commonly referred to as “camelot”. His logic is based on this being the “will of the people” based on a majority of americans having heard of the family referred to as “camelot” and not receiving any written complaints about the reference all these years since he first plunged into politics.
The state legislature is expected to authorize the title of nobility, Earl of Vinyard, (to be pronounced in a kennedyesque fashion) at a private meeting of the legislature on Martha’s Vinyard that has been called by the office of Lord Kennedy-elect.
The official ceremony will be followed by a Hollywood-Democrat-Leftist-Only Semi-Public Ball that will sort of be held starting at Woods Hollow and proceeding all up and down the Cape.
The proceeds, after expenses and such to be paid to the Earldom, will go to support everything Lord Vinyard has every stood for that’s still relevant today, at least until the next election.
The Earldom will then pass to an heir which the Party and the Earldom will determine according to what laws as such and so forth remaining, as far as being fit and proper, given that elections, not forthcoming, whatsoever, will nonetheless not be necessary.
This monetary savings, and streamlining of the governmental process, will enable a new Senator to be named post haste in an ad hoc fashion in a very short and timely manner.
This Earldom with then provide stability for the Earldom of Vinyardachussets, nothwithstanding the elimination of redundant Republicans and the intoxicating personification of the Democratic proclamation.
Thanks to Dan Rather for his contrabandutions for this history-making news.
When it comes to bald-faced audacity, you can never beat a lib.
No, but the temptation is almost overwhelming.
Aides to both leaders say an election was more democratic than a gubernatorial appointment, and they cited the legal and political problems that plagued former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and New York Gov. David Paterson when they filled vacancies for President Barack Obama and former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Maybe they will make Bawny Fwank a Contendah
And he better not be planted in any consecrated ground! The Pope better make sure of that.
Cricket bats preferably.
So let me get this straight...the law was changed so that Romney could not speedily appoint a replacement, but now Kennedy wants that law changed so that it be done speedily. Got it. Democrats in action.
I hear they’re going to replace Byrd by starting over again with all old Democrats starting with Jefferson.
They’re just looking for whose going to play the roles of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. SEIU will be the new Tammany Hall, should control the country for the next 135 years. The have to go to the Federal prisons to find someone to be Burr. Hamilton is going to be played by Rush Limbaugh. For the Senators, they’ll just exhume them and dust them off, nobody will be the wiser, as no one really can bear to watch CSPAN for more than a few seconds at a time.
I am amazed at these “fargging iceholes” who think that America is great because of them. That they own the seat they hold and have the “right” to pass it on to whomever they want.
That is “bullshiggadizzle” America is great because we have the ability to replace people, even if the tards in Taxachusetts haven’t shown any inclination to do so lately. Its all good, you idiots just keep letting the steel roofing ballasts land on your heads while you drive. And congrats on that idiot Kwame Jr you have as governor. Who didn’t see that train wreck coming?
WOW. Are you the Royal Scribe?
Congress - the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution.
Houses of Congress = House of Representatives + Senate Chamber
Congressman - a member of a congress, esp. of the U.S. House of Representatives.
I’m Court Jester, brainlean media are the scribes !
I got busy for awhile but just got back from googling Inouye of Hawaii as a guess of who it might be, and sure enough he’s third in seniority, having served since 1962.
Kennedy will not be a factor, I think we all know.
Bye bye Teddy - you’ve done enough damage in this lifetime.
Time to answer for your misdeeds.
There is that damned Hawaii connection again! L0L
How ironic it would be if they needed just one more yes vote in the Senate, and Teddy dies beforehand, and a R voted no. Of course that is a dream, as we all know that the new R would vote yes in “honor” of the swimmer. A fitting tribute, and something sure to keep both sides in lockstep.
As are we all, Teddy boy... As are we all. Your judgment draweth nigh.
“Amazing... they make a special law to prevent a Republican governor from appointing a senator, and now that they have a senator they want to replace it’s all “Oh nevermind what we said before, let’s do it the old way this time.””
I HATE MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS...AND YES, I LIVE IN MASS. I wish my fellow residents would wake up and vote the policy and not the party! Knee-jerk Dems drive me crazy. I hear them complain about the policies and taxes at work and yet....wait for it...they all automatically vote Dem. The republican party has done a lousy job here in trying to reverse the perceptions people here have of what the party stands for. I think the Repubs have considered us a lost cause and have not really tried to get the message out here. As a lifelong conservative resident of Massachusetts, I’d like my kids to be able to stay here. I’d like to be able to stay here. But on the other hand, with the way the country is presently headed, where are we to go?
here here!
Hell, no. That's for wussies. Got me a Big plank with a rusty nail in it.
Karma, has a sense of humor.
I think it’s pretty funny that the Dems were the ones who changed the law in the first place. They just never stop, do they.
They seem to be free to change the rules in any way that they think will benefit them, and they’re never held accountable and then are permitted to ask for a do-over any time they want.
Last time I checked the Senate is one of two houses of Congress, a bicameral legislature.
Inouye is at least 85.
He is from the World War II generation.
All of these guys are party hacks.
They bleed Democrat.
However, truth be told they cannot relate to the Moveon.orgs and ACORN and the like or extremist politics in the Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama mold.
For example, Byrd kept on saying that the Czars are unconstitutional.
I suspect Inouye is just a placeholder until he’s gone, so no big deal either way, but in his heart and soul he KNOWS his party leadership has taken this country off the deep end.
“Where are we to go?”
Texas?
“Texas?”
my hubby would be for that!
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