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Rajjpuut's Folly on Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:53:02 PM
Undistinguished leader Obama hails Kennedy Replacement as "distinguished leader"
Obama, Dems Use Shady Politics to Gain
Early Kennedy Replacement
President Barak Obama hailed the ex post facto result of Massachusetts dirty tricks, new senator Paul Kirk, as "a distinguished leader and an excellent choice to carry on the late Senator Ted Kennedy's work. Obama and Democrats were ecstatic after Democratic state governor Deval Patrick selected former Democratic Party Chairman Kirk to fill the seat until Kennedy's legal replacement will be decided upon by a special election in January. The appointment of Kirk gives Obama a potentially critical fillibuster proof 60th Democratic vote in the Senate to help pass Obamacare.
For the second time in five years, Massachusetts legislators used ex post facto last-minute legislation to unethically change the state's already standing replacement rules. In 2004, to possibly deny then governor Mitt Romney the power to name a senate replacement for John Kerry (should he have been elected president that year) by creating a new law requiring a runoff election. Romney is a Republican. Kerry was NOT elected and the constitutionality of the ex post facto law denying Romney the power to select a replacement (the law that was on the books when Kerry chose to run) was never put before the judicial system. The new law enacted after Kennedy's death according to ex post facto provisions should only be considered constitutional for seat openings created after the new law was enacted not ones empty before the law was made.
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Rajjpuut