Lyin' Of The Senate

I love how Ted Kennedy is being portrayed as thinking of the needs of his state and country in asking Massachusetts leaders to change the state's succession law.

Thankfully, The Wall Street Journal pointed out that it was upon Teddy's insistence that the law was changed in the first place.

The year was 2004 and it was looking like another JFK was set to enter the White House.

Kennedy didn't want Republican Governor Mitt Romney to appoint John Kerry's successor, so he asked the Dummycrat controlled legislature to take away the Governor's authority.

Now, for purely selfish reasons, Teddy wants it his way again and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Jeff Jacoby points out another hypocritical piece of Teddy's argument for change, that being the need for two Senators and two votes in the Senate.

For well over a year, Massachusetts has not had the “two voices . . . and two votes in the Senate’’ that Kennedy says its voters are entitled to.

Sickness has kept him away from Capitol Hill for most of the last 15 months.

As a matter of integrity, he should bow out and allow his constituents to choose a replacement.

That has to be the first time the words "Integrity" and "Kennedy" have appeared in the same story.