Apparently Obama is scared of having to use reconcilation...

RICHMOND - Gov. Deval Patrick said Friday that President Barack Obama had personally talked to him about changing the Senate succession law in Massachusetts, and White House aides were pushing for him to gain the power to temporarily replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy amid the administration’s health care push.

A month after a White House spokesman labeled the issue a state matter,Patrick said he and Obama spoke about changing the law as they both attended Kennedy’s funeral in Boston last month. He also said White House aides have been in contact frequently ever since and pushing for the change so they can regain their filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate.

"He and his whole team have been very clear about that," Patrick told reporters after holding a Cabinet meeting near his Berkshire Mountains vacation home

It’s out there that the Senate president and the (House) speaker are tyring to figure out whether this can be accomplished, and he fully understands, as do his aides, who I have talked to more about it, the importance of having the support for a change agenda down in Washington," Patrick added.

The governor spoke just moments after Republicans in the Massachusetts Senate temporarily blocked a bill allowing Patrick to name an interim appointment.

Democrats changed the succession law in 2004 to create a five-month special election campaign and block then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a temporary replacement if Sen. John Kerry had won his presidential bid.

To change the law now that there is a Democrat in the governor’s office smacks of hypocrisy, the GOP says. The special election campaign is underway, with party primaries scheduled for Dec. 8 and the general election set for Jan. 19.

Republicans, who hold just five of 40 seats in the state Senate, objected to the bill being taken up without formal notice. Under Senate rules, the objection means the bill can’t be debated until the next formal session.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/vi...id=1198436

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Yeah, what a Real Good Friend old Teddy was to everyone and especially to Father Barack.

Such a good Friend mind you, that even at Teddy's Funeral, Father Barack was jostling for position on Forcing some Warm Body in Teddy's old Senate Seat.

This President has absolutely NO SHAME AT ALL.

And this is the guy you would want as a "Friend In Time of Need" ???????

He is sick with his own Importance of Power and it is driving him Insane.

And he Sooner the Better !!!!!!!!!!

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(09-18-2009 02:11 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Apparently Obama is scared of having to use reconcilation...

RICHMOND - Gov. Deval Patrick said Friday that President Barack Obama had personally talked to him about changing the Senate succession law in Massachusetts, and White House aides were pushing for him to gain the power to temporarily replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy amid the administration’s health care push.

A month after a White House spokesman labeled the issue a state matter,Patrick said he and Obama spoke about changing the law as they both attended Kennedy’s funeral in Boston last month. He also said White House aides have been in contact frequently ever since and pushing for the change so they can regain their filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate.

"He and his whole team have been very clear about that," Patrick told reporters after holding a Cabinet meeting near his Berkshire Mountains vacation home

It’s out there that the Senate president and the (House) speaker are tyring to figure out whether this can be accomplished, and he fully understands, as do his aides, who I have talked to more about it, the importance of having the support for a change agenda down in Washington," Patrick added.

The governor spoke just moments after Republicans in the Massachusetts Senate temporarily blocked a bill allowing Patrick to name an interim appointment.

Democrats changed the succession law in 2004 to create a five-month special election campaign and block then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a temporary replacement if Sen. John Kerry had won his presidential bid.

To change the law now that there is a Democrat in the governor’s office smacks of hypocrisy, the GOP says. The special election campaign is underway, with party primaries scheduled for Dec. 8 and the general election set for Jan. 19.

Republicans, who hold just five of 40 seats in the state Senate, objected to the bill being taken up without formal notice. Under Senate rules, the objection means the bill can’t be debated until the next formal session.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/vi...id=1198436

Probably not scared. Just realizes that what can be done under reconciliation is limited.

(09-18-2009 11:23 PM)Tripster Wrote:  .

Yeah, what a Real Good Friend old Teddy was to everyone and especially to Father Barack.

Such a good Friend mind you, that even at Teddy's Funeral, Father Barack was jostling for position on Forcing some Warm Body in Teddy's old Senate Seat.

This President has absolutely NO SHAME AT ALL.

And this is the guy you would want as a "Friend In Time of Need" ???????

He is sick with his own Importance of Power and it is driving him Insane.

And he Sooner the Better !!!!!!!!!!

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Neither was the group responsible for creating the "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs the dipshits were carrying at the tea party.

The Democrats are proving pretty shameless on this one. Remember, the law they want to change is the one that they instituted to keep Romney from getting to replace Kerry if he'd won the White House in '04.

The message seems to be, "We don't care what the law is, so long as we get our way."

(09-20-2009 10:00 PM)Smaug Wrote:  The Democrats are proving pretty shameless on this one. Remember, the law they want to change is the one that they instituted to keep Romney from getting to replace Kerry if he'd won the White House in '04.

The message seems to be, "We don't care what the law is, so long as we get our way."

He is just following Bush's lead.

(09-19-2009 01:24 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Neither was the group responsible for creating the "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs the dipshits were carrying at the tea party.

At least the Tea Party Groups weren't standing next to Teddy's Casket begging for a Super Uber Liberal Replacement in Teddy's Seat before he was even buried in the ground Robs.

Barack Obama is a Shameless Hack that cares only for Barack Obama and being this shoddy at the mans Funeral(s) was about as Tacky as Tacky can get.

Father Barack is a "Lower Blower" in more ways than one !!!!!!!!

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(09-21-2009 01:29 AM)Tripster Wrote:  

(09-19-2009 01:24 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Neither was the group responsible for creating the "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs the dipshits were carrying at the tea party.

At least the Tea Party Groups weren't standing next to Teddy's Casket begging for a Super Uber Liberal Replacement in Teddy's Seat before he was even buried in the ground Robs.

Barack Obama is a Shameless Hack that cares only for Barack Obama and being this shoddy at the mans Funeral(s) was about as Tacky as Tacky can get.

Father Barack is a "Lower Blower" in more ways than one !!!!!!!!

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Well, the Tea Party groups may not have been "tacky" but they certainly were classless.

(09-21-2009 12:23 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(09-20-2009 10:00 PM)Smaug Wrote:  The Democrats are proving pretty shameless on this one. Remember, the law they want to change is the one that they instituted to keep Romney from getting to replace Kerry if he'd won the White House in '04.

The message seems to be, "We don't care what the law is, so long as we get our way."

He is just following Bush's lead.

Just so we're clear. One president wiping his ass with the Constitution makes it okay for another to do so?

That argument doesn't fly when a child uses it, so why are you using it?