Joe Klein on the self-styled Worlds’ Greatest Deliberative Body:
He suggests some worthy folk, but nothing so high-minded as, you know, an actual election. Sure, it would be expensive but all the pols are telling everyone they should spend some more money, so consider this a stimulus for the political consultancy industry – a trade that’s been badly battered by the bursting of an inflationary bubble in the first week of November…
Anyway, the selection of new Senators has always been a “skeevy travesty”. To take but one pleasing example of gubernatorial chutzpah: in 2002 Senator Frank Murkowski was elected governor of Alaska and, as the new governor, appointed his own daughter, Lisa, to his own unexpired Senate seat.
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