{"id":1164,"date":"2004-01-29T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1164.html"},"modified":"2004-01-29T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T18:36:11","slug":"senator-frank-sounds-good-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/senator-frank-sounds-good-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Frank? Sounds good to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4063829\/#040128\">Eric Alterman brought up<\/a> an exciting political opportunity yesterday: Senator Barney Frank.<\/p>\n<p>If John Kerry gets the Democratic nomination and ultimately wins the White House, there&#8217;d obviously be a vacancy in the Senate. Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/frank\/\">Rep. Barney Frank<\/a> (D-Mass.), one of my favorite House members, is prepared to make a run for Kerry&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p>If for no other reason, this makes a compelling case for Kerry&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>If Kerry&#8217;s the president, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, would have the authority to name a replacement to serve temporarily (as John Furcolo did when JFK won the White House in 1960). But Frank could run the following November against Romney&#8217;s Republican candidate. Since there are no Republicans in Massachusetts other than Romney, I suspect Frank&#8217;s chances would be pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>My ideal scenario is to see Frank win and have his official desk on the Senate floor placed directly across from Sen. Rick &#8220;Man on Dog&#8221; Santorum&#8217;s seat. The poor schmuck would probably develop a nervous twitch.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the entertainment value of watching Santorum every day, as he furiously rubs his temples, outraged that he has to serve alongside an openly gay senator.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, I&#8217;d probably start using Tivo to record C-SPAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Alterman brought up an exciting political opportunity yesterday: Senator Barney Frank. If John Kerry gets the Democratic nomination and ultimately wins the White House, there&#8217;d obviously be a vacancy in the Senate. Apparently, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), one of my favorite House members, is prepared to make a run for Kerry&#8217;s seat. If for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}