Yeah, but can you appoint your pony to the House?
Oh, wait. Special election. Right.
If your pony is a genius in the stable, maybe.
There is no precedent. Regardless of the veracity of any tales about Caligula’s horse, that was the Senate, not the House.
Caligula appointed his horse to the Senate, so why not?
Regarding the OP: It could be worse, and will. Alaska could revert to Russia. Not claiming that is the way it will be worse, just an example. But based on experience, it will get worse. Sorry.
Now back to punches under the belt. I am enjoying that.
Great minds think alike, only sometimes in opposite directions. Ninja’d can be a matter of seconds 
Great minds think alike. And so do ours.
Scum though he may be in the big picture (to be honest, I’ve never even heard of him), anyone who kisses dogs can’t be all bad.
Nitpick: It’s not so much an exception or hole, as it is that the method of vacancy filling for the House is constitutionally mandated differently as for the Senate.
But getting that wrong does not disqualify someone from expressing their disgust with the former and future holders of the seat.
I just want to say, well done lifting Chevy Chase’s rant from Christmas Vacation. Good use of that chain of invectives.
It is if they’re actually making out with the dog.
That was the Senate, not the House.
It’s a common conservative viewpoint that the very minute you’re wrong about something (never mind if you admit it), your word, expertise, and judgment can never be trusted again. After all, if you’re wrong this time, why should anyone believe that you won’t be wrong next time, or the time after that?
You may not be happy about the flags in Oregon being put to half mast.
Governor Brown orders flags lowered to half-staff in honor of late Alaska representative | KATU
Doubling down on the incorrect information, eh? The Constitutional methods for replacing Senators and Members of the House are different, as others have pointed out.
Don’t let basic facts get in the way of your rant, though.
You never do.
Which is why there’s not a single person, any where on this board, who takes you seriously on literally any subject.
D_Anconia somewhat reminds me of Milton from the film Office Space. Milton was always muttering about his stapler and insisting he could play his radio “at a reasonable volume” as if anyone gave a shit.
Everyone just basically dismissed him because it was irrelevant, unimportant crap. I just imagine DA hunched over in a cubicle, mumbling about replacing members of Congress and how he could burn down the whole board if he wanted to.
Well, I think we’ve established that D’Anconia is more than qualified to serve as Young’s replacement.
Pretty much SOP for these sorts of things.
I think of it as much as honoring the office as the person. Sometimes, more the office.