Big Government notes that, despite Republican Scott Brown’s decisive victory more than a week ago in winning the Massachusetts US Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy, interim appointee Democrat Senator Paul Kirk continues to be the 60th vote for the Democrats’ disasterous agenda in apparent breach of law and precedent.
According to Senate rules and precedent, Kirk’s term expired last Tuesday upon the election of Scott Brown. Furthermore, Massachusetts law can be interpreted, according to GOP lawyers, as:
Based on Massachusetts law, Senate precedent, and the U.S. Constitution, Republican attorneys said Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day, period. Brown meets the age, citizenship, and residency requirements in the Constitution to qualify for the Senate. “Qualification” does not require state “certification,” the lawyers said.
Meanwhile, GOP Senate leaders sit back and watch as votes like the confirmation of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and the bill allowing the federal debt ceiling to explode to $14.3 trillion come and go and are approved by Kirk’s illegal 60th vote.
Republicans: Do you need to be sent a message more grand and sweeping than Brown’s election in bluest-of-blue Massachusetts to catch on that the electorate wants to stop these people in their tracks? What’s it going to take for you to stand up?
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