Posted on 02/19/2010 9:08:46 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Edited on 02/19/2010 9:19:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I believe someone managed to find votes for him for the time he was incapacitated. Not followed up as he is a Democrat.
still plans to finish out his current term – his fifth in the Senate – and seek re-election in 2014.
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86 yrs old?? Stomach cancer?? 2014 ???
Democrat lunacy and their embedded sense of entitlement, proprietorship and powermongering knows no bounds.
Wishing for Mr. L’s immediate retirement and speedy recovery. Wonder if the dems are starting to notice the providential demise of their party members? If I were them I’d be reallly nervous ;)
That would be senator Robert “Grand Dragon” Byrd, correct?
I watched the vote on TV. He looked kind of like Commander Christopher Pike from the original Star Trek series when they wheeled him into the senate chanber to vote on health care “reform”.
Few drugs are more addictive than power.
I'm more concerned with what the party will replace them with.
Good luck with that, Frank. We'll be remembering you fondly when the 2014 election rolls around.
IOW, he wants the democrat legislators in NJ to write a new law calling for a special election, because as the law stands now, the governor appoints whenever "a US Senate seat becomes vacant", and Governor Christie is a Republican.
I remember Reagan wisecracking to the attending physician (when he was shot) about him being a Republican. I laughed then, and I was a Dem at the time.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I think that’s the
whole point .. he won’t let it become
vacant. Remember how long Byrd was sick
and not physically present?
And that guy with the brain turmor?
Someone was wheeled in on a gurney for
a vote, weren’t they .. may have been
that one.
Their claws have to be bleeding before
they let go and follow protocol.
About 40 years?
Tim Johnson, and he’s still in the senate.
OK .. thanks... ;)
I do believe there was some blowback from that.
I've also stressed that if Teddy had just relinguished his seat when his cancer was first diagnosed, there would have been a more orderly transition and likely a Democrat would have been elected a year or so ago.
Lousy Lautenberg should do the wise thing and leave in an orderly fashion. This naked grasping for power is what enabled Brown to win.
From Geraghty at NRO
If ill health required him to step down, his replacement would be named by Republican governor Chris Christie, and the law authorizes the governor to call for a special election, in which case there is no schedule specified. Otherwise, the vacancy is filled at first or second succeeding general election, depending on when it occurs. In other words, Christie’s presumably Republican appointee would serve until November, be it this year or next. If that seat were to open up, it would probably set off a free-for-all on both sides of the aisle, with Rep. Rob Andrews, Rep. Frank Pallone, and Newark mayor Cory Booker likely to be mentioned on the Democrat side and almost any Republican in the state aiming to be Christie’s interim pick.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDI5NGQ4ZDc2NzIyNzQxMjUwZjc5MDM3MDg5ZmYzOTI=
Mountainous Ego in the way.
Depends on the type of lymphoma - I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma, sub-type: Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2003. It is a B-Cell lymphoma, like Lautenberg has ...
MCL Only affects 2%-3% of those diagnosed. It is nasty - no current cure. Average time to death after diagnosis is 18-24 months. By all rights, I should be dead by now - but I am at least in remission after chemo and a stem cell transplant. The 2 people with MCL that I met at the hospital while being treated already died.
Don't know if Lautenberg has MCL, but if he does, it is very bad.
Oof - sorry to hear about your illness and best of luck.
If the avg survival time is 18-24 months, then at Lautenberg’s age it’s got to be far less.
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