(CNN) -- The election victory of Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown is expected to be certified Thursday, which could allow him to be sworn in as early as Thursday afternoon to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.Good: Getting a Republican in Dead Ted's seat.
Brown's win stripped Democrats of their 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate and raised fears among many congressional Democrats about a potential GOP landslide in November's midterm elections.
Bad: Republican landslide (the last thing on earth those corrupt fuckers need is to be rewarded for, well, not being Democrats).
Here's a quick compare and contrast for you:
Niki Tsongas: Sworn in two days after winning election by 5% so that she could cast a vote to override President Bush*'s veto.
Scott Brown: As of today, *might* be sworn in, even though it's been 16 days since he won the special election by 5%.
MA: You're more likely to cheat here.
Oh, and, because I haven't said it recently: GO SCOTT GO!!!
That is all.
*It took President Øbama to make me long for the fiscal responsibility of George W. Bush...
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Bad: Republican landslide (the last thing on earth those corrupt fuckers need is to be rewarded for, well, not being Democrats).
I largely agree ... but the enormous success of the TEA Parties, and the sudden surge in grassroots activity among conservatives are making me begin to wonder if we might see something else happen. Consider that:
1) any Republican surge this fall will be driven largely by TEA Party candidates and voters; and
2) in the last two years the Dims have demonstrated what happens when you let the old party line run a new legislative majority.
Is it at least possible that a resurgent GOP, full of new officeholders who ran as fiscal and constitutional conservatives and were elected as such, will learn from past mistakes and organize itself around the small-government principles that brought it victory?
And if you laugh at the very thought ... well, just remember, three months ago we'd all have laughed at the thought of a Republican sitting in MA's second Senate seat.
Jay,
Be fair about the Tsongas thing. The House and Senate really do have different rules and, from a constitutional perspective, Massachusetts did have a senator during that time, so there is less of a need to rush.
Besides, they've enforced the rules "against" Democrats too. It took months and months to seat Al Franken after he lost his election, for example.
Mass pols are so predictable.
I've lived in Portsmouth, NH, where all the TV came from Boston, and in East Boston and Brookline very briefly.
Watching Mass pols was one of my favorite pasttimes.
So anyway, the point.
A story about the whiny Sec State whining about having to certify him was posted at doubleplusundead
http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/class_dignity
In the article, he feels it necessary, and the totally not in the tank "journalist" feels the need, to make sure we know that all accusations of delaying this certification are "unfounded".
So I read that and wrote, "In other words, he delayed it as long as he could."
So Tsongas had to have been certified within 2 days of the election and Brown had to wait over 2 weeks.
Nope, no delay there.
Shut up.
Mass pols are probably funnier than NY pols, in NY, where I grew up, they're just slimy. In Mass they're comically corrupt.
Plus, I give them props because they run their fiefs generally well, Boston is very safe for a big city.
In NY they don't run them well. They've run that state into the ground.
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