Who’s Going To Take Hillary’s Senate Seat?

Posted by: Tristan

Among the people NY Governor and blind philanderer David Patterson is looking at to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat is…William Jefferson Clinton. Patterson gets to appoint someone to fill Hillary’s seat for two years until a special election in November 2010.

“This is not an election. This is not a campaign. It’s a constituency of one. David Paterson. It’s all about what the governor wants to do,” said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report.

“Paterson has said he would prefer someone from upstate New York, or a woman or an Hispanic candidate,” Rothenberg said.

As for some of the more unconventional picks, Rothenberg said Paterson could “try to make a splash with a big name like Robert Kennedy Jr.” or a “quirky interesting pick” of someone like Caroline Kennedy, who is not a politician.

Well, there’s no bigger splash that could be made aside from throwing “Bubba” into the Senate.

But some are suggesting the former president should take his wife’s seat.

In an op-ed column last week in The Washington Post, journalists Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac urged Paterson to “send Bill Clinton to the Senate.”

If that happened, Clinton would become the third former president to go from the White House to Capitol Hill.

President John Quincy Adams lost his re-election bid in 1828. Two years later he returned to Washington after winning election as a congressman from his home state of Massachusetts. He served in the House of Representatives until his death in 1848.

President Andrew Johnson also served as a Senator from Tennessee in 1875, 7 years after the Senate acquitted him of impeachment charges. He died a few months after taking office.

Bill Clinton would bring gravitas to the job, and he obviously knows his way around Washington.

But some Democratic strategists who used to work for Bill Clinton don’t think the former president would want to go from leader of the free world to being the junior senator from New York. Clinton’s office deferred to Paterson’s office when asked for a comment.

I’m sure that Clinton Administration Cuckquean Hillary would prefer Bill have a job that keeps him tied down, rather than having him running around with a lot of free time on his hands.