Number two is filed under "oh, sweet irony." Five years ago, Massachusetts changed its law to prohibit its Governor from making temporary appointments to the United States Senate. Under the new statute, the seat would remain vacant for about five months until a special election. There's a plausible argument that this change was effected to prevent Mitt Romney from appointing a Republican to replace John Kerry, had the latter been elected President. Well, now the tables have turned. Ted Kennedy has brain cancer, and he has petitioned the Governor and General Court of the Bay State to change the law to allow a gubernatorial appointment. The urgency, of course, stems from the fact that without Kennedy, the Democrat caucus doesn't have the sixty votes needed to break a filibuster. The lesson: be careful when you pass a law, because it
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Two glorious examples of government folly!
Number two is filed under "oh, sweet irony." Five years ago, Massachusetts changed its law to prohibit its Governor from making temporary appointments to the United States Senate. Under the new statute, the seat would remain vacant for about five months until a special election. There's a plausible argument that this change was effected to prevent Mitt Romney from appointing a Republican to replace John Kerry, had the latter been elected President. Well, now the tables have turned. Ted Kennedy has brain cancer, and he has petitioned the Governor and General Court of the Bay State to change the law to allow a gubernatorial appointment. The urgency, of course, stems from the fact that without Kennedy, the Democrat caucus doesn't have the sixty votes needed to break a filibuster. The lesson: be careful when you pass a law, because it
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