I heard today that word has slipped out unintentionally from the bastion of integrity that is our senate majority leader, Harry Reid, that should Scott Brown (R) win the vacant Massachusetts senate seat instead of the Democratic candidate next Tuesday, that the senate will wait to certify the results thereby seating then Republican Senator Brown until AFTER the health care legislation is completed and signed into law.
Of course the purpose of this is so that the Democrats can maintain their filibuster-proof majority and pass this egregious un-Constitutional health care monstrosity. Never mind that precedent in the senate has always been to certify and seat special election winners within a day to a week at most after such elections. The Democrats don't want to risk this though because the current Democrat seat-holder appointed to temporarily fill the seat vacated by Tedd Kennedy's death is reliably in the Democrats' camp on this issue. The Democrats have said they will delay certifying Brown, if that is the outcome of the special election next week, for months if necessary so that health care may be passed.
It is ironic considering that Tedd Kennedy came to the senate as the outcome of a special election many many decades ago and was certified by the senate and seated the next day. Sounds like politics as usual to me, but the wrath of the American voters is coming this Fall, and I bet Senator Reid will reap his just rewards then.
