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08-24-2009, 01:28 PM
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) has asked the state legislature to change the law so he can name his own replacement in the US Senate. A spokesman for the ailing senator said “the Senator is concerned that he may not live long enough to cast his vote for the current health care bill and ensure that America is on the path to realizing his life long dream for a single-payer national health system.”
Kennedy has couched his request as a cost-saving measure. In a letter to the Massachusetts state legislature the Senator wrote, “I have held this seat for four decades.
Despite scandalous allegations that may have felled a lesser man, I’ve been returned to office repeatedly by wide margins. Rather than force voters to choose a replacement as current law requires, I feel it would be more cost-effective for me to name my own successor.”
State Republican Party Vice-Chairman, Casper Meek said his Party was “not necessarily opposed to Kennedy’s idea.”
“Look, voters in this state are ‘whacked,’” Meek observed. “A Democrat could commit murder and still get elected.
Our Party is just banging its head against a wall contesting these elections. So, why not save us the trouble?”
In addition to repeatedly reelecting Ted (The Swimmer) Kennedy to the US Senate, at the state level, Democrats outnumber Republicans in the lower house by 6 to one and in the senate by 8 to one. “They might as well make the position hereditary,” Meek said.
“The state would have better odds for a decent and respectable senator from a genetic mutation than we would with Massachusetts voters making the decision.”
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In related news, Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass) characterized his constituents who attended his “town hall” meeting to oppose Obama’s health care bill as “excessively anal in the worst sense of the word—picking over every detail of the bill.”
“How can you elect me, yet oppose what I stand for?” Frank shouted at the crowd. “What’s wrong with you?”
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/president-says-he-will-sacrifice-second-term-for-health-care-reform/
Kennedy has couched his request as a cost-saving measure. In a letter to the Massachusetts state legislature the Senator wrote, “I have held this seat for four decades.
Despite scandalous allegations that may have felled a lesser man, I’ve been returned to office repeatedly by wide margins. Rather than force voters to choose a replacement as current law requires, I feel it would be more cost-effective for me to name my own successor.”
State Republican Party Vice-Chairman, Casper Meek said his Party was “not necessarily opposed to Kennedy’s idea.”
“Look, voters in this state are ‘whacked,’” Meek observed. “A Democrat could commit murder and still get elected.
Our Party is just banging its head against a wall contesting these elections. So, why not save us the trouble?”
In addition to repeatedly reelecting Ted (The Swimmer) Kennedy to the US Senate, at the state level, Democrats outnumber Republicans in the lower house by 6 to one and in the senate by 8 to one. “They might as well make the position hereditary,” Meek said.
“The state would have better odds for a decent and respectable senator from a genetic mutation than we would with Massachusetts voters making the decision.”
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In related news, Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass) characterized his constituents who attended his “town hall” meeting to oppose Obama’s health care bill as “excessively anal in the worst sense of the word—picking over every detail of the bill.”
“How can you elect me, yet oppose what I stand for?” Frank shouted at the crowd. “What’s wrong with you?”
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/president-says-he-will-sacrifice-second-term-for-health-care-reform/