Posted on 09/18/2009 10:56:24 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
Associated Press story, go to link.
Influence peddling!
Didn’t this happen in Ohio recently?
FYI!
What about Blago in IL?
“They want that 60th vote like a dog wants a bone.”
They aren’t even worried about being called “HYPOCRITE!” by the lap-dog media...
What the hell has happened to our Democracy?
“What the hell has happened to our Democracy?”
Same thing as when you flush your toilet...
Sad, isn’t it?
>>> Influence peddling! Didn’t this happen in Ohio recently? <<<
It’s the Chicago and Boston way.
Wow. Thanks for the ping, GOPsterinMA.
Corrupt to the the core.
They all belong in jail.
10-4, Nutmeg!
Don’t have to read something that we already knew. He wants us to think he’s above all of it. Like he had nothing to do with what the peanut farmer said. Yeah, right.
Thanks for the ping!
The Democrat said Friday the conversation took place last month while the two attended Kennedy’s funeral in Boston"
Isn’t there a minimum height requirement for the Senate? Dukakis wouldn’t be eligible to serve.
What was the price this time?
Does anyone seriously think Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr, and Blagovich weren’t working out a deal????????
By the Way, michele is listed in the documents!
Hillary will be mad. Michelle to be appointed to Ted Kennedy’s seat. (It’s the wide one.)
/sarc
We wish....if that was the case Daschle couldn't have made it.
A carton of Kools for Barry and a case of Vodka for Kitty Dukakis.
Both Deval and Dukakis get lifts for their shoes...
How much did he offer?
Boston radio stations are running ads urging Massholes to call their reps to pass this thing. The ads are sponsored by a “non-partisan” group called MassVote.org, comprised of community organizers. Wonder if ACORN’s involved...
Yes, I heard them on both RKO and EEI.
I’d bet a pizza they are ACORN connected!
“Isn’t there a minimum height requirement for the Senate? Dukakis wouldn’t be eligible to serve.”
Take a look at the great senator Waxman. I would guess that he is about 3’10”, ears at least 6” long, buck teeth, hunched back, looks like something that would live under a bridge.
I know why they had the chat, but can anyone tell my why Patrick would divulge it this way, confirm to the press that it occurred??
The answer is YES, ACORN is included!
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At least a Dukakis appointment would give the Senate its first acknowledged Lesbian senator (although in his case it would just mean someone whose ancestors lived on Lesbos).
Everyone should be sending this news to email contacts to illustrate that democrats only want laws that serve their political purpose. This is a reflection of what will happen if these stinking bastards gain control of our medical options.
No, no, I don't mean the obvious hypocrisy in the legislation, since it is a foregone conclusion that this will occur. I'm talking about confirmation that he and the president discussed the appointment until the special election -- regardless we all know this occurs, pols trade, make deals, of course these two have had at least one conversation, my guess is there have been more. But both Patrick and 0bama learned nothing from Blago??
He just had a hip replacement.
I guess 0bama didn't suggest he "just take the pain pill."
'Cisely.
While I agree the Governor should have the power to fill a Senate seat until a prompt (not 2 years away like with Jean Carnahan) special election I would vote against restoring the power to the Guv in MA. They should be forced to lie in the bed they made. Unfortunately they won’t. And we’ll possibly have Senator Dukakis. That’s even worse than the prospect of the return of Mondale was.
Even one rat in the MA legislature admitted that “of course” taking the power away from Myth Romney and giving it back to Patrick was/is politically motivated.
Senator Vacancy is the best MA Senator since who knows when. It’ll be sad to see him go.
Every conservative and libertarian should read Jon Keller’s fine book titled: The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster
This changing the law as you go shows the Rats for what they are: Opportunist Marxist vermin.
Senator Vacancy (well done!) is the best MA US Senator since...Leverett Saltonstall? Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr?
It’s certainly better than the RINO Lodge Jr.
Who was a terrible VP choice for Nixon.
Senator Vacancy is the best MA Senator since...
...Sinclair Weeks in 1944.
Never heard of him.
At least you don’t have to go back as far as Lodge SR!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144385/posts?q=1&;page=51#69
Or rather I did hear of once. But only in reference to his son.
I don’t recall how Conservative Sinclair Weeks was, but going by his son, the State Senator who ran against Gerry Studds, the latter was decidedly liberal.
From what I’ve read, Senator Sinclair Weeks was quite conservative (the word is unfailingly used to describe him), even if he was a friend of Salty Saltonstall from their Harvard days; certainly conservative enough to be better than someone that votes “present” on every vote.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/weeks.cfm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817510,00.html
I’ve probably read those descriptions before, but it appears he was really an establishment moderate at best (what Time considers “Conservative” would be left-of-center, “radical right winger” is a moderate, and “extremist/racist/McCarthyite” would be a mainstream Conservative). His telling Taft to get out of the race tends to demonstrate his being an Establishment type. I would’ve unapologetically supported the Taft/MacArthur ticket in ‘52. Ike ended up a disaster as a party leader for the GOP, and by the time he was done, the GOP began its freefall loss of power in the northeast that it has never recovered from.
Weeks was Senator in 1944, not 1952. Besides, I think that the story is evidence of his conservatism because it had a “man bites dog” quality to it (it wouldn’t have been newsworthy for a liberal to ask Taft to step aside.
[He] seems so completely conservative in his views that at times he seems to be illogical. I hope . . . that he will soon become a little bit more aware of the world as it is today."
Ike was unmoved by Weeks' "logical" advocacy of nominating himself the popular RINO war hero over Taft?
Ike was quite the lousy President. Unlike GWB he didn't even put good people on the SC. (Earl Warren and Brennan were libs, Stewart and Whittacker appeared to have been moderates, Harlan seems to have been the only decent or good one). I wish he'd chosen to run as a democrat. At least then the GOP would have taken Congress in 1958. Going with the "more electable" Ike sure worked out great in end huh.
Ultimately, I agree it probably would’ve been better had Ike served as a Democrat. People forget it was on his watch that we suffered the single-worst losses of either party in the Senate since popular elections began. Those losses were so horrible that it allowed the ultra-radical measures shoved through in the 1960s that has caused us no end of trouble, and set up the Democrats to be the established majority decades beyond any acceptable amount of time.
In Ike’s defense, however, he had no idea that Earl Warren would be the extremist leftist activist on the court. By all accounts, he believed he’d be a non-threatening Republican mainstream appointee (not necessarily spectacular, but level-headed and non-controversial). He was horrified at Warren’s “transformation”, and obviously if he had it to do over again, he’d never have appointed him. Contrast that with Jerry Ford, who remained proud of his Earl Warrenesque abomination, John Paul Stevens, on SCOTUS right up until his death. The fact that Ford continued to serve as an apologist for this radical activist really lowered my opinion of the man.
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