No Senate Seat for Vicki Kennedy

How about Teddy, Jr.? He was the MOST eloquent of all. Check out the featured story on sdnn.com by Colleen O'Connor.

Now there's a qualification for the US Senate, eloquence. Not knowledge or any of that mundane stuff, but fluff. Didn't we just elect someone with a lot of fluff but not a lot of know how?

The law will be changed, and I wouldn't count her out.

I agree with Frances.....
I say Ted Jr. for the temp position. After all look at all the repubs with their shallow terrorist tactics, lies and fear mongering staged as politic experience. Ted Jr. WAS the most eloquent, a far more inspirational quality than what I've seen from repub behavior.
He is ALSO an American entrepreneur, investment banker and lawyer specializing in disability issues. He later co-founded and is president of Marwood Group, a firm that advises corporations about health care and financial services.
He is also married to an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine at Yale University and an environmental advocate. She serves as spokeswoman for Stop the Pipeline, which successfully blocked the Islander East natural gas pipeline across Long Island Sound.

I'd say quite an impressive person to implement his fathers last dream.
The Dream lives on.......

this is america...not some foreign country where family memebers continue to hold a seat because of who they married or who fathered them. hold an election and hopefully the most qualifeid person wins....someone with some kind of experience please.

Massachusetts needs an effective Senator with legislative skills, experience and progressive democratic values.

For the interim appointment 100+ days I'd leave it to the Governor.

For the election, I'd like to see 'qualified' and 'experienced' be the priorities not the candidates last name. Didn't we learn anything from Bush41/43 and William "The Bloody" Kristol and his neoconservative-founding father. A last name is no substitute for competence.

I think Teddy Jr would be a natural choice. He is an attorney specializing in disability law (according to CNN I believe). He is disabled himself and has I am sure a deep interest in the healthcare system because of this. He is obviously intelligent and aarticulate. More important, he has yet to make the tabloids at least to my memory.

A last name is no substitute for competence.

For example:
Bush 41, Bush 43
Irving Kristol, William Kristol

Our upper chamber is explicitly not a house of lords occupied by royal families. I have no axe to grind with the Kennedys - I loved Ted and he was my senator my whole life - but MA should choose its senator wisely.

As for the interim, that's up to the Gov. of the state. We need two votes in the senate.

Senator Cantwell shows Republicans why they should support the public option - cost control.

Vicki for Senate seat? With an attitude like that no wonder this country is in such bad shape.
All personal attitudes aside, with Senator Ted Kennedy's passing we lost a clunker. With Congress wrangling over health care since Bill Clinton's tenure, nothing has been accomplished. It seems we have too many clunkers in Congress and they are not efficient(like the car gas guzzlers).Time to replace the rest of the clunkers with more efficient models and make Congress a real working model with the citizens in mind.

He lives in CT, how could he run for the Senate seat in MA. Perhaps it's a time for a change and let the seat go to a non-kennedy for the first time in voer a half a century.

It's certainly not my call but I sure think Vicki would be an excellent choice for the short term. Of course MA voters should pick their choice for the future during the special election.

Ted Kennedy,Never worried about paying a bill,never had a house or car payment and never worried about his children's education fund. He could not understand what it feels like to worry about paying bills or for health care insurance. I certainly hope who ever gets in has had to work for a living,and not just for the show of it.

How about some of that change? No more Kennedys, liberals, or democrats. Change is sometimes good. Sarah Palin how would you like to move to Bean Town?

teddy jr. owns a home in hyannisport and therefore could claim resident status and qualify to hold public office in massachusetts.

The Democrats changed the law last time to prevent the Republicans from taking control. Now they want to change the law back to get control of that seat. Isn't this just smacking of corruption. Let the law that is in place dictate, and have an election, a real election, with real voters, where the people get to vote for whom they want, not the cronies!

I like Teddy Jr as well. I'm not from Mass. and don't live there. If I did, I think I would want the right to vote, and even maybe have change. I love the Kennedys but they've had a lock on this seat for a long time.

Kennedy's seat? We should rename the U.S Senate, to what it has become. "The House of Lords".

Where is ABC's outcry about the Democrats wanting change the law on the replacement of a senator that they themselves passed to prevent a Republican governor from appointing a replacement senator? The public can see past this "Chicago" style political game. No wonder ABC is losing viewers with the biased reporting on stories like this.

I know, lets just eliminate all elections, federal, state, city, etc., and just have the person holding the seat hand it off to someone else. Not only will we never have term limits we will always have a family member or best buddy in office. What a great idea.
good grief !

The Democrats changed the law last time to prevent the Republicans from taking control. Now they want to change the law back to get control of that seat.
Posted by: Gammy Sparkles | Aug 31, 2009 8:44:13 PM

Don't forget the Republicans' 'the hammer' who redistributed voting ditricts so the Texas public could then conveniently 'elect' a hypocrite smirking REPUBLICAN.

Do any of you think this is right to change the law because Ted Kennedy died. He wanted the law changed so he could block a republican from naming a candidate to fill a position that actually did not need to be filled. How unamerican can you get. This country is going down thanks to corrupt politics.

Well, whatever you do Dems, change the laws to suit your needs. No sense playing by laws you made for the stupid Republicans. Democrats have no conscience or sense of right and wrong.

Why do you have to have a kennedy anyway and wasn't the law changed one before to suit the Kennedy crowd/

I'm so disillusioned that something like "what new Kennedy it should be" is even on the table! What the hell happened to America? Oh, that's right, it's been going on for years, it's just now they don't even attempt to hide it anymore.