...First Class to Barbados, now boarding...

My stomach turns every time I think about this Senator appointment nonsense. This is honestly one of those instances where you look at this and think, "The Democrats really are 100% entirely wrong about this. There is no wiggle room." The Republicans are up in arms, but if you read quotes and look at their actions, they are more disheartened by the partisan nature of this whole episode. They are correct in so many things, primarily that this is a Golden Parachute for Deval Patrick. He is lining his pockets with this move.

If the people of this state vote to have him removed from office, he has earned himself a cushiony seat in Washington, Ambassador to Barbados, or wherever his heart desires. He is playing a game, and it all comes back to why we are in this position. Why are we in a spot where we need a Legislative body to change the rules in a way that is so disheartening? Because of the state's unrelenting and unreasonable love for all things Kennedy, that is why.

I am so tired of people who make their own beds refusing to lie in them. This has been a long battle, a 6 year long battle essentially, on this one issue. The details have been beaten over and over again, but Kennedy really kept himself in that seat as Senator, missing 97% of the votes, because he knew it would all work out in the end. And why wouldn't it? We have created safety nets for that family for as long as I can think, and as long as my parents could think, and so on. Kennedy's can do no wrong, it isn't Politics, its a way of life.

You know what it is? It's sickening. It's the way Texas adores Bush. It's the way the GOP talks about Reagan. It's nonsense, its childish, and it's unfair.

People don't understand when I talk like this that I am actually a Democrat. I was Independent for a while, but the way things are set up, you are removed from some processes as an Independent, as in the Primary, and I don't want to play by that rule, so I moved myself back to the D side. I am a Democrat. But now, as I get more entrenched in knowing and understanding politics, I realize I am more on the side of being honest, fair, and making sense.

This move by Dems is none of those things. It is dishonest b/c they are not coming out and saying, "We are purely doing this for the vote, period." They are disguising it by saying, "it's the most crucial time in history," or, "Kennedy would have wanted it this way," or "It was Kennedy's precious bill to begin with, it's wrong to take his voice away now." All of those things may have a grain of truth to them, but I cannot for the life of my understand why that would make it right what they are doing.

This isn't fair at all - it's actually the opposite. They are taking a power we have given them as an electorate and going in a direction we didn't even realize they could go. Do you realize what precedent this sets? Essentially, in order to play this game, you have to remain in power, and once there, you write the rules. It doesn't matter what the other side thinks, the other side of the aisle may as well just not exist, because they need to be avoided, ridiculed and lied to. As long as it's all in the name of maintaining your numbers, your lead. Win at all costs, period.

And it certainly doesn't make sense. Look at this from a wide lens - they made a rule, the rule isn't working for them now, so they want to change it. It is that simple. There are no other ins and outs, there are no caveats or explanations, it's that simple. The reality is, this Health Care bill is days away from becoming a joke, a bill that wouldn't require that 60th Democratic signature, b/c there are going to be a handful of Republicans who will be proud to sign the piece of filth. We didn't need to do this. There is no need, except to somehow elevate Kennedy's place in history, rub the GOP's noses in our power, and get people angry.

Oh, and to ensure that Deval gets a First-Class ticket to Barbados.