Lame Duck Congress Prepares to Pass Obama's Radical Agenda Before January: It Starts With Mark Kirk

Legally, Mark Kirk (R-IL and Senator elect), just like Scott Brown in January, should be heading to the Senate to do the work the people of Illinois elected him to do. While Kirk is not a solid vote against the Obama agenda--he did vote for cap and trade in the House--he will still side with Republicans most of the time and should prove a safe vote to help beat this final drive through January to push the unpopular Obama Pelosi agenda to law. However, just like Scott Brown in January, the Democrats are playing games.

From American Thinker:

Now, in a lame duck session of Congress, Obama and his Leftist pals are already finagling the rules of democratic process. Senator-elect Kirk will not be sworn into office because undisclosed Democrat functionaries in the bowels of Illinois state government cannot find the paperwork.

Oddly, though this duly elected Republican will not take office before the lame duck session begins, Senator-elect Manchin and Senator-elect Coons, both Democrats, will be sworn and serve in the lame duck session. The malodorous stench of hack partisanship is repulsive, but also familiar when Democrats are in power.

What could a lame duck session do? It could do anything.

House members already voted out of office in Red districts need not fear the wrath of the voters. Fifty-nine senators will be close to cloture strength, with "Senator" Manchin and "Senator" Coons voting while "Senator" Kirk waits for a file clerk in Springfield to find that darned missing paperwork needed to swear him into office.

So all the great evils we feared from Obama can be done in a single day by a Left massively repudiated by the voters...

Kirk of course is needed in hopes of teetering the way of the Republicans because Scott Brown, ironically, can't always be trusted to vote to the right. Still it's better than having two D's in their place.