The Fix is In?

There are reports out there now that the Democrats may stall the installation of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s replacement in the Senate if it turns out to be a Republican.

The guy in their now is just a rush-job fill in so the Democrats have at 60 votes to cram Health care down your throat.

But a Special Election is looming next week in Massachusetts.

The home of the most Liberal tradition is America has a chance of having a Republican Senator.

Normally, such an impossibility should be a sign of the End of Time.

Instead, it’s just a sign of how much people really hate the Health Care Reform Agenda being rammed down their throat.

But the Senate heedless of this, yet again, is talking about not swearing in the Republican if he wins in any particularly fast manner, some reports say even as much as a month later.

Just so he can’t vote on Health Care.

Isn’t Representative Democracy grand in Obama’s 2010.

Boston Herald: It looks like the fix is in on national health-care reform – and it all may unfold on Beacon Hill.

At a business forum in Boston Friday, interim Sen. Paul Kirk predicted that Congress would pass a health-care reform bill this month.

“We want to get this resolved before President Obama’s State of the Union address in early to mid-February,” Kirk told reporters at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

The longtime aide and confidant of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who was handpicked by Gov. Deval Patrick after a controversial legal change to hold Kennedy’s seat, vowed to vote for the bill even if Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, who opposes the health-care reform legislation, prevails in a Jan. 19 special election.

“Absolutely,” Kirk said, when asked if he’d vote for the bill, even if Brown captures the seat. “It would be my responsibility as United States senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy’s agenda. . . . I think you’re asking me a hypothetical question but I’d be pleased to vote for the bill.”

“The outcome of this race couldn’t be more important,” Obama himself wrote in a fundraising e-mail Monday night.

“This is a stunning admission by Paul Kirk and the Beacon Hill political machine,” said Brown in a statement. “Paul Kirk appears to be suggesting that he, Deval Patrick, and (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid intend to stall the election certification until the health care bill is rammed through Congress, even if that means defying the will of the people of Massachusetts. As we’ve already seen from the backroom deals and kickbacks cut by the Democrats in Washington, they intend to do anything and everything to pass their controversial health care plan. But threatening to ignore the results of a free election and steal this Senate vote from the people of Massachusetts takes their schemes to a whole new level. Martha Coakley should immediately disavow this threat from one of her campaign’s leading supporters.” A spokeswoman for Coakley’s campaign declined to comment Friday.

THE AGENDA IS THE AGENDA!!

The Brown race in Taxachusetts is an ominous rumbling beneath America’s political landscape, with the earthquake arriving in November. Democrats and their stimulus bills that don’t stimulate have spent us into double-digit unemployment.

They’ve refused to work with the GOP on the tried-and-true low-tax solutions to recession. And now they want to spend another trillion-plus wrecking a health system that’s the envy of the world.

Win or lose, Scott Brown has already done a heckuva job showing the Washington establishment that a nationwide grass-roots revolt is getting bigger and bigger. (IBD)

As was said famously in Mel Brooks’ “History of the World Part I”:

“The Peasants are revolting!”

The Emperor: “Yeah, they stink on Ice”

An American Liberal perspective on the use of the filibuster (aka the 60 votes):

(The filibuster) it makes the Senate a closed and rigid place, where a minority can block everything and where the president and the majority not only need 60 votes; they need exactly the same 60 votes every time. One or two senators at the farthest right edge of the Democratic coalition — or the most malevolent edge — become effectively co-presidents, with full veto power over any initiative. Other individual senators become irrelevant.(American Prospect)

Could the Universe handle a Republican Senator from The People’s Socialist Commonwealth of Taxachusetts??

Maybe not.

But the storm clouds are building.

The question is, will the storm arrive in November or will rise in fury and then fizzle?

Stay Tuned.