The DemocraPs around here are incredible.
Flashback:
"The Democratic-controlled Legislature in Massachusetts in 2004 changed state law to require special elections and prevent then-Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a replacement had Senator John F. Kerry won the presidency. Just days before his death, Kennedy asked state lawmakers to revert to the old system so Governor Deval Patrick, a Democrat, could name a successor.... "
What AFTER HE GOT 'EM to CHANGE IT?!!!!!!
"The shift in 2004 was indeed a naked effort to block former governor Romney from appointing a fellow Republican if Senator John Kerry were to win the presidency. Kennedy himself played a behind-the-scenes role in the political sleight of hand."
The ARROGANCE is quiet a sight, isn't it, 'murka?
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Now listen to the unbelievable hypocrites of Massachushitts!
"Kerry joins the call for interim senator" by Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff | September 10, 2009
Senator John F. Kerry joined dozens of residents, public officials, and labor representatives yesterday in urging state lawmakers to give Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim senator to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s seat for five months.
“This is no time for the people of Massachusetts to not be represented fully in Washington,’’ Kerry told the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Election Laws....
But FIVE YEARS AGO, yeah, it was OKAY THEN!!!!
What an A**HOLE!!!!!!!
Kerry’s testimony highlighted a packed hearing that lasted more than five hours in a State House auditorium, where lawmakers weighed the value of having full representation in the Senate - at a time of big-ticket policy proposals, chiefly President Obama’s controversial health care plan - against the political consequences of almost certainly helping the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill tighten its grip on power....
Yeah, it is ALL ABOUT POLITICS!!!!!!!
HERE is a THOUGHT: Why didn't they CHANGE IT BACK after KERRY LOST? Just FORGOT ABOUT IT, huh? That's the way they DO SO MANY THINGS around here.
State Senator Jack Hart, a South Boston Democrat, said his constituents have been calling and are overwhelmingly skeptical about “political chicanery, the sense of a sleight of hand.’’
I called my rep and talked to him directly! I showed him a tremendous amount of respect, and really told him how sick we are of all them down there.
“All of us on the panel have some thinking to do about . . . the benefits and what’s best for the state versus the fact that many people in Massachusetts are a little bit tired of what they see from this Legislature, which is not held in the highest regards,’’ he said.
Were DEMOCRATS doing what was BEST for the STATE FIVE YEARS AGO?
NO!!!!!!!!! Nope!
(Blog editor so enraged he can't type any words)
Republican legislators, vastly outnumbered on the committee, bristled at the plan to return to the governor the appointment power that the Legislature took away just five years ago, calling it a bald power grab. Back then, Republican Mitt Romney was governor, and Democratic lawmakers worried that he would appoint a member of his party to fill Kerry’s seat if Kerry were to win the presidency.
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“If Kerry Healey were governor today, would you be here advocating as strong as you are now?’’ asked state Representative Paul Frost, an Auburn Republican, referring to the Republican candidate for governor in 2006 and spurring applause from the audience in Gardner Auditorium....
No, they would not.
The entire Massachusetts congressional delegation also wrote to lawmakers yesterday, asking that the law be changed. Not acting, they wrote, would mean “putting the residents of the Commonwealth at a disadvantage compared to other states.’’
But NOT FIVE YEARS AGO!!!!
F*** YOU, a**holes!!!!! Keep pushing!!!!
In his 23-minute testimony, Kerry spoke of the importance of every vote in Washington, pointing to historic one-vote margins that ended the filibuster on the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and kept President Andrew Johnson in office in 1868. He also noted that last February Kennedy defied doctors’ orders and flew to Washington for an important procedural vote on Obama’s stimulus package....
“This is not just theoretical,’’ Kerry said. “The history of America has, on more than one occasion, turned as a result of one or two or three votes in the Senate.’’
That's funny; WARS seem to be OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR THERE since YOU GUYS FULLY FUND THEM!
That led Republicans to question Kerry’s own voting record in the Senate, particularly his many missed votes when he was running for president in 2004. Kerry responded that every senator who runs for president - including Republicans John McCain, Orrin G. Hatch, and Bob Dole - missed votes during their own campaigns.
He is INCREDIBLE! Was THAT HELPING the CITIZENS of MASSACHUSETTS or was that helping JOHN KERRY!??
State Senator Scott Brown, a Wrentham Republican who is considering a run for Kennedy’s seat, also pressed Kerry on Kennedy using his influence to change the law in 2004.
“And by writing the letter that he wrote and putting himself on the line, I think he acknowledged that that was a mistake,’’ Kerry responded....
Ooooooooohhhhhhh, NOW it was JUST a MISTAKE, huh?
And THEY WONDER why WE ARE FURIOUS??? Do they really?
After another pointed exchange with the House minority leader, Bradley H. Jones Jr., Kerry asked lawmakers to think about serving the state’s needs first, regardless of political allegiances.
“Can I say to you all, let’s try to strip the politics away,’’ Kerry said. “Let’s think about this on a human level.’’
OMG, is THIS SICKENING or what?!!!!!
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Ready for some MORE HEAVING and HURLING, readers?
"Obama presses legislators to pass bill on interim senator; Lawmakers still split on altering law, Murray says" by Jim O’Sullivan and Michael Norton, State House News Service | September 11, 2009
President Obama pushed Massachusetts lawmakers yesterday to rewrite a 2004 election law and allow Governor Deval Patrick to appoint an interim senator to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat, casting himself into a tight debate whose outcome, participants said, is largely unknowable....
Oh, now HE is going to stick his BIG FAT NOSE into OUR BUSINESS!
Yeah, this is ALL POLITICAL!!!! What a DISGUSTING CREW of DemocraP DIRT BAGS we have in Massachushitts!
Still, Senate and House members said the levels of support for the proposal remained unclear, despite consistent pressure from Washington Democrats that increased yesterday with Obama asking supporters to call their legislators and lobby for the bill’s passage.
Now I'm going to go call.
Obama’s political operation, Organizing for America, called the empty Massachusetts seat, which would give Senate Democrats a 60th seat and probably prevent a Republican filibuster, “a needed vote in favor of real health reform.’’
Yeah, OBAMA'S little GROUPS are OKAY!
Related: Turning Healthcare Into Hate
Yeah, I'm LOVING the agenda-pushing DOUBLE STANDARDS here!
“We need to make sure that Governor Patrick can appoint an interim senator until a special election can be held,’’ the group said.
Why? Because of POLITICS?
Imagine if the SHOE were on the OTHER FOOT and it was GEORGE BUSH who was INTERFERING in Massachusetts politics?
HOW DO YOU think all my LIBERAL DEMOCRAP "friends" would react then?
Like I said, HYPOCRISY in FULL FLOWER!!!!!!
Republicans said Obama’s involvement, after weeks of public neutrality, is proof that Democrats are motivated by politics rather than good government.
“I think the e-mail confirms that Democrats are changing the election law for political purposes,’’ said Tarah Donoghue, spokeswoman for the state GOP. “I think it’s a plea to preserve the filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and rush through the health care reform bill.’’
A new poll released yesterday shows declining support for an interim senator law, with respondents roughly split.
How much you want to bet the Leg shoves it up our ass, anyway?
They NEVER LISTEN AROUND HERE because they DO NOT HAVE TO!!!!
"Carol Grossmann was an enthusiastic supporter of Patrick’s 2006 campaign, but she’s grown angry, mostly about budget cuts to social services. “He’s disappointing,’’ said the 59-year-old home heath aide from Conway. “I would never vote Republican. But I just don’t know what will happen.’’
Yup, your OPEN-MINDED DemocraPs at thought!
What, the Globe find the ONLY JEW in CONWAY, did they?
Sigh!
Legislative leaders continue to say publicly they are digesting input around the law change, which Kennedy requested in a letter delivered to Patrick and legislative leaders a week before he died....
He's been in the ground long enough; SCREW HIM and HIS LETTER!
You SHOULDN'T HAVE got it CHANGED, Ted!!!!!!!!
