Have New York Democrats lost all self-respect? Their excited talk of whether Caroline Kennedy is "interested" in Hillary Clinton's Senate seat makes you wonder. The late John F. Kennedy's daughter has made at least one feeler phone call to New York Gov. David Paterson. And Uncle Teddy, the Massachusetts senator, is busy pulling the levers to slip her in. The seat will be vacant upon Clinton's confirmation as secretary of state.
This unsavory spectacle has been upstaged by the wild drama in Illinois, where Gov. Rod Blagojevich is being accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat. The doings in New York are not blatant corruption, but they are corrosive to our democratic ideals. Lest anyone forget the point of the American Revolution, our representatives are not chosen by hereditary succession, which, to quote Thomas Paine, "is an insult and imposition on posterity."
Are you kidding me? The democratic party is all about heirlooms. Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts Manatee, has his seat solely as a result of being a Kennedy. Who else could have killed someone in a drunk driving incident and kept their senate seat?
As far as NY goes, did Froma consider that Hilary Clinton, who never spent one year in NY as a resident, leap frogged right over everyone in the state to take that seat.
For some reason the Kennedy's are democratic royalty and the party keeps hauling them around like Cleopatra.
Call me when I quit laughing.
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