Posted on 11/03/2023 12:37:03 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge
If McC is so all-knowing, why isn’t he back home helping Daniel Cameron in the last days of the governor’s race?
Hawley is the one who is grandstanding. It won’t get anywhere. Who controls the senate? It’s all for show.
Interesting that we apparently are now all for McCain-Feingold style “reforms” and now oppose the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
Used to be entirely the opposite around here as we can see from the comments section:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2848799/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3140175/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448757/posts
Wouldn’t matter if Republicans would actually support their own candidates instead of having to beg McConnell to throw them crumbs. The Democrats’ Super PACs are just gravy on top of the mountains of cash they raise from their grassroots.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435420/posts
We now apparently hold the views of Obama on this issue (Citizens United / McCain Feingold)
Obama’s position is now the conservative position - the previous conservative position is now the RINO position.
The 17th Amendment changed the Constitutional method for electing US Senators from being chosen by their state legislatures to popular vote like the House of Representatives. It was done in 1913 with President Wilson under the guise of making elections more ‘democratic’.
The reality was that it put the US Senate into the pocket of Corporate America, because senatorial candidates now needed lots of money to run for the Senate, as opposed to being senior politicians in their own state, which effectively cost nothing.
Currently it takes about 20 million dollars to campaign for a Senate seat, and for re election it means a sitting senator must raise 10 thousand dollars a day, every day, for six years. Consequently, they spend all their time fund raising, and leave the actual work of legislating to their staff.
Additionally, Corporate America no longer exists, and the Senate is now under the thumb of a cabal of unAmerican international corporate conglomerates, who have no loyalty to the US.
The only reasonable solution to the massive bribery and corruption in DC is to repeal the 17th Amendment as soon as possible.
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