…in anguish, after seeing what has become of his beloved state. Once a shining beacon of individual freedom and liberty, it is now nothing more than a pale gray immitation of a sovereign state.

that a current rep, who is even to the left of Ted Kennedy, will be the next Senator. His name is Edward Markey, of the 7th district. The same Ed Markey who hates anything with the word “nuclear”.

Andy Card may be our best shot here, if he decides to run.

winning that Senate seat?

won it from Henry Cabot Lodge, except for the short interregnum following JFK’s election as president.

Only in America!

Who knows where that may lead, perhaps to democratic representation for the public..

I read this as “Massachusetts Secession Crisis” and thought our troubles were soon to be over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Junior

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAQsuBbe_0

Massachusetts having Kerry as a senior Senator is like having Sylvester the cat as your dad. I wonder exactly how Massachusetts functions as a state. But I’m sure before all this is over, we’ll see a good number of the citizens wearing paper bag hats and saying,

“Oh, Kerry…”

Wealthy Republican businessman Christy Mihos, who is currently a candidate for governor, will switch to the Senate race this week and spend at least ten million dollars of his own money, a spokesman said.

Mihos “intends to switch over to the Senate race within the next 24 hours,” said spokesman Kevin Sowyrda, who added no well-funded, credible Republican has been willing to step up to run so far.

Although Mitt Romney made Governor.

I am glad that Joseph P. Kennedy II took a pass: he’s been making too much money delivering Venezuelan oil:

Smith also defended the program’s ad budget as appropriate for the size of the program. And he defended Kennedy’s salary – $545,000 in 2007, according to tax documents … Kennedy and his late brother, Michael, who ran the organization while Kennedy was serving in Congress, shuffled and reshuffled the deck of its for-profit, and nonprofit, activities several times.”

It would be interesting if Barney Frank ran, but he’s too happy being senior Representative. Even a squeaky-clean Republican would have trouble winning this seat.

sometimes I wish the NYTimes would just give you a shot at an OP-ed piece like they did for Colbert…

Seems far too many people want some sort of government control, so the vote for those who will impose government control. Mass. has been in the thrall of liberal policies for decades & its highly unlikely anyone who represents them will do anything other than, impose more government control.
Some seem to think people in government are good guys who will always do what is best for the people.
Yet we have so many examples, on BOTH sides of the aisle, of politicians whose actions are nothing short of criminal. Government run does not mean better it means, government run. It means, they decide & you pay for it while obeying whatever the government bureaucrat tells you to do.
We can find another free market supplier of what we want. We can sue free market companies for their failures or criminal actions.
Ever try to sue the government? Didn’t think so!