Four years back, Massachusetts, with a Democratic legislature was worried that of Kerry won the presidency (silly, I know, but back then it even seemed possible!) Republican Governor Mitt Romney would get to appoint his successor. The responded by changing the way successors are appointed, requiring a special election.
Today, these same Democrats are confronted with this same law as while they need to get someone in the Senate as fast as possible to vote for health care, this very law that they wrote requires them to wait 145 days for a special election. And so now they want to repeal this exact law because of "unintended consequences".
"Unintended consequences" being "the generic law that we passed for purely short-term politic motives is about to bite us in the ass because we were too stupid to think about what would happen if the tables were turned."
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