Doing the right thing

Facing one of the most nail-biting choices since the presidential election, David Paterson, the New York governor, has been told he would be guilty of “political malpractice” if he named anyone other than Caroline Kennedy as the state’s new junior representative in the Senate.

Mr Paterson, under intense pressure from some of the country’s most powerful political dynasties as he ponders his decision, has sole discretion to appoint a replacement for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is moving to the state department in Barack Obama’s administration.

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It would appear that since that time that we and Princess’s house worker made compelling arguments for why she should be appointed to Hillary’s vacated Senate seat, the rest of the political establishment is starting to finally fall back in line on what should’ve been an obvious choice in the first place. Political dynasties are at stake, dammit!

Sources close to New York Governor, David Patterson, expect him to name Caroline Kennedy to the Senate seat in short order.

But in an odd twist, Patterson turns right around and appears to make a nod to… democracy:

Following continuing criticism of Kennedy, Paterson on Thursday threw down the gauntlet. Though Kennedy appears to be the front-runner to replace Clinton, Paterson said the next junior Senator from New York will have to win re-election on his or her own.

We’ll forgive Patterson that small gaffe in reference to the current practice of appointment-by-surname to this nation’s most exclusive political club as long as he does the right thing.

We’ve worked so hard for this... we can’t believe at long last it might actually become true.