Massachusetts may delay certifying election results if Scott Brown wins in order to save healthcare

Another mobile post, there is just too much going on in the Massachusetts special election to wait until I get my computer back. Hopefully the link provided will work. If it doesn’t I will correct it when I get my computer back.

The duplicity of Massachusetts’ politics is in full display with this story that the certifying of the results of the “people’s seat” may be delayed by weeks. Needless to say, this is an effort to give the Democrats time to pass healthcare reform before the new senator from Massachusetts is sworn in, in the event that the winner is Republican Scott Brown.

Massachusetts has a recent history of changing the rules in order to thwart what few Republicans there are in the state; when it appeared in 2004 that John Kerry was going to become president, the legislature changed the law to provide for a special election to appoint Kerry’s replacement in order to stop Republican Governor Mitt Romney from appointing a Republican to replace John Kerry as senator. But when Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the Massachusetts legislator changed the law again, back to the original law, to allow Democrat Governor Deval Patrick to name Kennedy’s successor– which he did.

Massachusetts is at it again; Massachusetts is citing the state law which says the state must wait ten days before certifying the election results in order to count all of the absentee ballots. I would normally agree with this, but Massachusetts ignored this very same rule when they immediately certified a House election result in order to over-ride a George Bush veto. While I cannot condone ignoring the law– two wrongs don’t make a right– this does offer us an opportunity to see how corrupt Massachusetts politics are.

This is being done for one reason and one reason only– to provide more time for Democrats in the House and Senate to reconcile the healthcare reform bill in the event that Scott Brown manages to pull off one of the biggest upsets in political history.

The heathcare reform bill has been delayed too long and Deval Patrick’s appointee has not yet had the chance to help pass the president’s bill. So now Massachusetts is trying to buy more time for the governor’s hand picked senator to vote for the healthcare bill.

Democrats are trying to flaunt the will of the people– support for the healthcare reform bill is falling away all across the country, but the Democrats are hell bent on passing it against the will of the people.

If Scott Brown wins, and if the Democrats delay his swearing in so that they can pass a bill that the American people do not want, the repercussions will not only be felt in Massachusetts at the polls in November, they will be far reaching and wide ranging across the country. Democrats may gain a “victory” on healthcare reform, but they will be facing disastrous election results and a loss of power in November.

Democrats will have to decide what they feel is more important– passing a bill to please the president, or keeping their jobs.

Either way, Massachusetts is in competition with Chicago for the most corrupt political system in the country. If this doesn’t awaken Massachusetts voters to the fact that the legislature doesn’t care about them, nothing will.