[QUOTE=Villages Kahuna;221540]Kennedy is not alone is being too sick to be able to represent the residents of his state in the Senate. Neither he or Robert Byrd of West Virginia have been in Washington very much recently, nor have they voted on much of anything. There may actually be others in the House and Senate who are incapacitated in one way or another and unable to do their jobs as elected officials, but I just can't think of them. Yet, I'd bet if an election was held in Massachusetts and West Virginia tomorrow, both would be re-elected in landslides. [QUOTE]

My point was not that he or anyone else is currently ill or that they probably would get reelected, but the hypocrisy of Kennedy wanting to change MA law, to accommodate his desire to keep Democratic control of the Senate, after the Dems changing the law to keep the Republicans from doing the same thing in 2004. I guess its different when the shoe is on the other foot in MA. Power, not performance, rules in government, both state and federal.