Absent
22 December 2008
Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, DC
Dear Sir or Madam:
One of your morning anchors, arguing in favor of appointing someone to fill the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, worries that a special election "would take too much time."
Yes, a special election cannot be done as quickly as can an appointment. But so what? That Senate seat has already been practically empty for the past two years, as Mr. Obama was crisscrossing the country campaigning for an even higher office. (Ditto, by the way, for Mrs. Clinton's Senate seat.) Clearly, having any member of the comically called "world's greatest deliberative body" actually be present IN this august assembly is not so very important after all.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, DC
Dear Sir or Madam:
One of your morning anchors, arguing in favor of appointing someone to fill the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, worries that a special election "would take too much time."
Yes, a special election cannot be done as quickly as can an appointment. But so what? That Senate seat has already been practically empty for the past two years, as Mr. Obama was crisscrossing the country campaigning for an even higher office. (Ditto, by the way, for Mrs. Clinton's Senate seat.) Clearly, having any member of the comically called "world's greatest deliberative body" actually be present IN this august assembly is not so very important after all.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Thursday May 21, 2009 at 9:34am