Ticking Clocks

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

At first I thought you meant the Senate would need to vote on whether Scalia was actually dead...

I don't know, we say "this close" but it's still 9 months away.

Eleven months. Obama is president until January 20.

The new senate takes office January 3. But that may not be too meaningful, since a filibuster would almost certainly be possible no matter how the election goes.

[tw]

The kid brought a ticking clock into school to countdown the event. Teacher immediately knew it must be a bomb. Cops were called. The kid was hauled off in handcuffs.

Once upon a time, this would have been fiction. Politics is dangerous at any age. Even Scalia couldn't take it anymore - and clocked out.