Empty “Totalitarianism” Charge of the Day

It’s from the New York Republicans, who are demanding (with no chance of success) a special election to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of state.

Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican, warned that filling vacancies without an election is

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Reports: Kennedy, Bennet Top Picks for Vacant Senate Seats

The successors to the two remaining Senate seats that opened up when President-elect Barack Obama tapped their current occupants for cabinet positions — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat in New York and that of Sen. Ken Salazar in Colorado — could be named shortly, according to news reports.