Hypocrisy bill passes the House
The “hypocrisy bill” – which would allow Governor Deval Patrick to appoint an interim replacement for the deceased Senator Ted Kennedy – just passed the Mass. House of Representatives. I honestly cannot believe that so many people support this.
In case you’ve been living under a rock (or aren’t from Massachusetts), governors in this state used to have the power to appoint interim senators when an empty Senate seat arose. Five years ago, however, when Massachusetts had a Republican governor, the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a bill taking this power away. Now, because we have a Democratic governor, the Democrats want the governor to be able to appoint an interim senator again. In other words, they want the bill that they changed, changed back.
Do I even need to tell you how hypocritical this is?
There have actually been rallies in favor of changing the law back, and the main argument of its supporters is that Massachusetts needs two voices in the Senate. I don’t know about you, but as a supporter of liberty, I don’t feel that either of Massachusetts’s two senators has really represented me.
Obviously, the sole purpose of changing the law back is to allow our Democratic governor to appoint a Democratic senator so that there are as many Democrats in the Senate as possible. This is especially important to the Democrats because they are currently trying to pass their ”health care reform” bill (which I put in quotes because it really doesn’t go far enough to reform much of anything). Contrary to what the pro-hypocrisy people argue, this is precisely the time we don’t need another Democratic Senator from Massachusetts. The health bill – which I will write more about later – threatens to take away our liberty, and we need to do whatever we can to take away votes from it.