Today's Boston Herald is reporting the lastest efforts by the Democrat party to pass the current healthcare reform bill despite the wishes of the American voters. It has been mentioned here and other places that Scott Brown (running in a special election to take place in January 19th in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat) would be the 41st vote and would potentially be the vote that stops the runaway train that is Obamacare. Well, not so fast. As the possibility arises that Scott Brown could win in Masschusetts (a Republican win in Massachusetts??? Wow!), the Democrats are moving to keep him out of the Senate until after the healthcare vote.
The Boston Herald reports:
"Today, 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 article further points out:
"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."
This is just wrong. If the certification of the special election is held up for political reasons, as is the plan by the Democrat party, it is a further indication of the lack of respect by many of our political leaders for the people who elect them. We need to remember the actions of our political leaders when the next election takes place.
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