Thread: Former DNC head Kirk tapped to replace Kennedy

Well, I kind of expected the worst, which was that another Kennedy would be picked. I was almost right, but there's a sigh of relief knowing that the Kennedys don't run America.

No, I don't think that the one he picks can run in the election. This guy is just a place holder for some other kennedy. They might as well not have elections there, or anywhere else, because people are not smart enough to pick leaders that will actually serve in their best interests, usually because neither one running will, especially any democrat.

I like what Senator Mitch McConnell said about this when you consider that when Mitt Romney was governor, the legislature stripped him of the ability to appoint emergency fill-in's in Washington: "If the governor is a Democrat, allow him to appoint. If he is a Republican, don't."

Quote: By GLEN JOHNSON, AP Political Writer – 38 mins ago BOSTON – Gov. Deval Patrick named former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. to the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat Thursday and said the rushed, temporary appointment was necessary because the issues before Congress were "too important to Massachusetts for us to be one voice short." Kirk, a Kennedy family friend, served on the senator's staff for eight...

Pseudo-Kennedy. They just cannot give it up. Time for that "family" to be taken out of the back of the fridge and tossed into political ash bin of history. It has been moldering and stinking in there for way too long.