Here we go again. Democrats are already trying to delay Republican candidate Scott Brown's being sworn into the US Senate and he hasn't even won Tuesday's special election yet. Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin (D), citing state law, said city and town clerks must wait at least 10 days for absentee ballots to arrive before they certify the results of the January 19 election. They then have five more days to file the returns with his office. Such a delay could preserve the Democrats' filibuster-proof super majority long enough to pass Obamacare. (source)

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You may think Secretary Galvin is just doing his job and upholding state law regardless of politics and party allegiance. But alas, you would be wrong. Democrats in the Bay State have a history of playing politics with the law and this isn't the first time (or even the second time) Secretary Galvin has been involved.

In 2007 Secretary Galvin overlooked that law so that his fellow Democrats could gain a House vote they needed to override a veto by former President George W. Bush. Although the election results had not yet been certified, Secretary Galvin faxed a letter the morning after the election to the clerk of the US House of Representatives which read in part, "It would appear from these unofficial results that Nicola S. Tsongas was elected as Representative in Congress from the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts. To the best of my knowledge and belief at this time, there is no contest to this election." Representative Tsongas, who had spent the last weeks of her campaign promising to be the vote that allowed her and her fellow Democrats to override the president's veto, was sworn in immediately. Secretary Galvin also issued a similar letter six years earlier to allow Representative Stephen F. Lynch, another Democrat, to be sworn in immediately after winning another Massachusetts special election despite that pesky law regarding certification. (source)

Of course Secretary Galvin isn't the only one with such motives and methods. Most of the Democratic majority in Massachusetts' government has a habit of ignoring/changing laws when it suits their political purposes:

In 2004, afraid of losing John Kerry's Senate seat to a Republican if he won the presidency, state Democrats blocked Republican Governor Mitt Romney from naming an interim replacement as he was entitled to do under a nearly century old law. They forced a change in the state's succession law from allowing a Governor-appointed replacement to fill a vacant seat to requiring a special election.

Upon the death of Senator Ted Kennedy in August, afraid of losing the Democrats' super majority in the Senate, they forced another change in the state's succession law. This time they changed it back to the previous version; allowing the Governor (now Democrat Deval Patrick) to appoint fellow Democrat Paul Kirk as the interim Senator from Massachusetts.

And now, with time running out on that interim appointment, Mr. Brown in a virtual dead heat with his opponent Democrat Martha Coakley and still no final health care reform bill ready to be rammed through Congress, the Democrats are resorting to their schemes and tricks yet again even before Special Election Day has dawned. Secretary Galvin's premature comments today are just another desperate attempt by the Democrats to undermine the remarkable surge of support for Mr. Brown's candidacy and begin the process of defying the will of the voters should he win. It's also another attempt by the Obama/Pelosi/Reid machine to quash any opposition to their remaking of America.