Special Election for Sen. Ted Kennedy

It kind of funny how when a Republican was the Governor of Massachusetts that the Democrats HAD to enact a law allowing a special election in the event that either a Senator or Representative vacated their office before their term was up. Now that a Democrat is the Governor they want to allow the Governor to appoint someone to fill the seat until the special election is held. I can see them wanting to go back and forth on this every time they don't hold the top position for the state.

But what I think is going to be more interesting is how the voters are going to react during the special election. The last Republican to be elected as a senator for Massachusetts was Edward Brooke (1967-1979). With all of the debate concerning Health Care (people are either for all it or entirely against it, I have not met or heard of anyone how is sitting of the fence). Currently all the Senators and Representatives are Democrats, if the state elects a Republican to replace Kennedy that may be a major signal that the government has gone to far with Health Care reform, stimulus packages (Cash for Clunkers, TARP, bailing out GM and Chrysler), and every thing else they are doing or trying to do. That would be quite a wake up call to DC.

What I fear will happen is if the people of Massachusetts do vote for someone other than a Democrat that there is be mass hysteria in DC because the people attempting to force everything through now will know that they days are numbered and the next time that they come up for re-election that there is a good chance that they will be voted out and they will force even more legislation through even though they know that we do not what it.

But chances are the voters will stay Democratic and we will stay in the mess that we currently are getting into thanks to our elected officials who were voted in to represent the voters not special interest groups, their buddies or themselves.