Barrasso Appointed To Replace Senator Thomas
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Wyoming's governor appointed Republican state Sen. John Barrasso to replace the late U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas:
Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon from Casper, will serve until the beginning of 2009. A special election in November 2008 will decide who will finish Thomas' term in 2012.
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Something this charged up? You want a vote for cloture to be the first thing you do in the Senate?
My guess is he'll find a way to not even be there to vote. He just got appointed, he has no staff (presumably he will rely on the late Senator's staff until he can get up and running). I highly doubt he'll even have the chance to get up to speed on a 1300 page bill. Besides which, he is a State Senator and presumably can't just drop his office like a hot potato - he can claim the need to wrap things up in Cheyenne and absent himself until after Immigration sinks or swims.
No one gets up to speed on a 1300 page bill. We've already had
senators who claim they didn't know what the bill said that authorized a war. With this 1300 page bill, every senator that votes for it will be able to claim they didn't know what it said. Any illegal who is adversely affected will be able to get a lawyer who will be able to tie the case up in court forever, because no one will understand any of it. La Raza will use this bill to get every person who has ever dreamed of coming to the US into the States before anyone figures out this pile of pages.
The man says he's socially and fiscally conservative not bad to me.
Don't mess with Texas and (Fred) Thompson.
If Barasso is anything like Tom Coburn, he may be able to cure me of Dean-Frist disease (previously thought incurable skepticism of doctors in politics).
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
This guy and Sansonetti are both very conservative.
I'm a bit surprised more states haven't adopted Wyoming's method of replacing Senators who leave office early. Of course, for all I know others may do the same, but this is the first I've heard of it.
Hawaii changed its method of replacing Senators during their term after a Republican was elected governor in 2002. Both of their Senators are in their 80's and didn't want to risk losing Senate seats. Now, the governor must pick someone from the previous Senators party.
It has to be like Wyoming, where the State Chairman of the Party or someone like that has to recommend or approve the nomination. Otherwise, a Governor could just get someone to change voter registration in order to get appointed and then switch back, or appoint someone who happens to be of the correct party, but not in line with their politics that will caucus with the other party in the Senate.
"Life is too short, can't we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?"
Wyoming's Gov is a Democrat, so he wouldn't want to put a popular woman (the State Treasurer) in the Senate (I'm not sure if she's pro-life, but we could use a pro-life woman in the Senate), plus I gather she has feuded with him in the past, and Sansonetti is a former Bush Administration guy, which is tough for any Dem to swallow.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill