Massachusetts Democrats say that if Republican Scott Brown wins Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat, which is looking like more and more of a possibility,
they will drag on the certification process if he wins so he can't vote against ObamaCare:
The U.S. Senate ultimately will schedule the swearing-in of Kirk’s successor, but not until the state certifies the election.
Friday, a spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is overseeing the election but did not respond to a call seeking comment, said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor’s Council would take a while.
“Because it’s a federal election,” spokesman Brian McNiff said. “We’d have to wait 10 days for absentee and military ballots to come in.”
Another source told the Herald that Galvin’s office has said the election won’t be certified until Feb. 20 - well after the president’s address.
The election is 19 January. Funny, when they needed a Massachusetts Democrat vote, none of that seemed to matter:
In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan. In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
You know it's bad when
even Hillary fans are crying foul.
3 comments:
They also swore in the "winner" of the NY 23rd district in time for him to vote for ObaMaoCare. Hell, they didn't even wait for the counting of votes.
But that's how these people operate; just makin up rules (and breakin 'em) as they go.
I am not an expert on the arcane senate rules, and I am not up on which tricks the Dem's are playing. My understanding is that the reconciliation process is not subject to a direct filibuster, though there may well be a back door way to do that. Mitch McConnell tied something up for years by filibustering the selection of the reconciliation committee, for instance. Also, the pollsters who are currently reporting this is a close race don't have that great of a track record lately. Still, if we do get the 41st vote, we can stop any more damage.
This reminds me to contact my family members who live in the Weirdo state and ask them to be sure to vote, and vote Republican.
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