Rush: The Senate Is Broken - Fix it now.

Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | April 14, 2005 | Rush Limbaugh

[pabianice]

WASHINGTON, DC, April 15, 2005 -- GPI -- Doctors today announced the experimental spine transfer operation recently performed on Sen. Bill Frist has failed.

"Dr. Frist's body rejected the vertebral transplant. We are still trying to understand what happened," said a spokesperson at Walter Reed Hospital.

The spine was found on the floor next to Frist's hospital bed yesterday morning, according to an unnamed hospital source.

"We are encouraged, however," continued one of Frist's doctors. "He seems not to be bothered by his lack of a backbone, just as he was before the operation. That's the good news."

Frist reportedly undulated back to the Senate floor this morning, waiving-off the Senate Master at Arms' offer to open the chamber doors for him and simply oozing back under the chamber doors...

[little jeremiah]

Ping to self for later read.

[FReepaholic]

...Rush: The Senate Is Broken - Fix it now....

It's been broken for a long time.

The Imperial Congress by Newt Gingrich

[blackie]

Keep their feet to the fire!

[oldglory]

---Missed some of Rush today--- thanks for "filling in the blanks"

He's really guuuud today!!

RUSH RULES!

[jveritas]

If they're going to stop the Senate and shut it down, Republicans need to propose a bill that says, "Based on this the Senate is voting--" and put a bill up there, "we will suspend the issuance of all Social Security checks."

Rush you are the best but this one is little bit over the top.

[Natural Law]

The major problem is with the Senate leadership. Mitch McConnell should be hung by the thumbs. The gadflies like McCain should be stripped of party election support and comittee membership. Party membership must have both its benefits and obligations. There must be a price for going off the reservation. There should also be term limits on senators like there is on the President. Two six year terms are more than enough.

[Lazamataz]

Rush is clearly doing very well with his program of recovery. This is the sixth or seventh show in a row where he's been firing on all cylinders, and you don't get consistancy like this on drugs.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"...This cabal of Democrats and gadfly Republicans, with support from these people in the media, actually want you to believe that to change the rule would be equivalent to destroying 200 years of tradition, the Constitution, and Senate comity, yet when in fact the opposite is true.

Never before has the Senate of the United States been so abused as it is being abused today by Dingy Harry Reid and the Democrats in this cabal of gadfly Republicans, and yet the Republican majority talks and talks and talks and we read today in The Hill newspaper that they're just now realizing they need to fight the propaganda efforts of their opponents.

I've got a story in The Hill that Republicans think all of a sudden they're losing the PR battle to Harry Reid. How long has this been going on? It's been going on for four years and they all of a sudden just now realize they've got a problem on the PR side?..."

Don't be a CINO (Conservative in Name Only)
Don't listen to CINO's in politics,
the Main Stream CINO media,
and even here on Free Republic.

Remember all who told you not to worry about klintoon, hitlery and reno
after the 2000 election?

Remember all who said Ashcroft would prosecute them.

Remember Chinagate, Pardongate, Waco, Vince Foster, the Jewish town in NY etc., etc., etc. ?

Well reno ran against Jeb Bush and hitlery wants to beat Hanoi Kerry in 08

Are YOU willing to listen to the CINO's again?

[mwl1]

You are all throwing in the towel on Frist way too early. The RATS may yet buckle at the last minute.

To date, the person who has ruined his presidential ambitions is not Bill Frist, it is John McCain. And I am very glad about that. He has committed political suicide and will never receive the GOP nomination in 2008.

[Jim Noble]

And it is a war they have been taking hill by hill, through the public school system, for the past forty years.

In 1980, there were 13 Republican senators from "deep blue" states (states Al Gore wone by >54%).

Now, there is one (Chaffee).

In 1980, there were 11 Democrats from "deep red" states-and there are still eight.

The RATs are fighting a war-and they're winning.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Senate has become a club. It is time for it to regain purpose.

[CDB]

So good and so true, I have changed my tagline.

How do you change a tagline?

[Edgerunner]

Look below the posting text box...

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Either the republicans have idiots advising them or they don't really want to win.

If I were advising them I'd get out all the old news reel footage of dems using the filibuster to oppose civil rights legislation which is primarily the setting in which it was used historically.

That's a two-fer because it tars the party and the filibuster all in one go.

You equate in the public's minds filibusters with racism with democrats. And maybe you tar Bobby "sheets" Bryd while you're about it.

This strategy seems so obvious that the fact that it's not being pursued tells me that the Reblicans either don't want to win or they're idiots.

BTW Dingy Harry Reid went into his history books and brought out the phrase "Radical Republicans". That's going back 140 years but Dingy Harry used it anyway. I'm only talking going back 40 years.

I don't get it.

[JustaCowgirl]

When you post a comment, your tagline is available for change down there below the comment area. If you post a reply to this message with nothing in it, I'll understand!

On rare occasions, I have been known to post an empty comment to myself in order to change my tagline. One smart aleck posted back to me on one such occasion that he didn't believe a word of it, and was amazed that I would even post such a thing. LOL!

[CDB]

Look below the posting text box...

Got it. Thanks a million!

[Mamie2010]

"There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.
There is a time to fight, and that time has now come."

Peter Muhlenberg

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It's time to restore the United States Senate

James Madison explained the importance of the legislature being divided into two chambers in Federalist No. 10:

"Before taking effect, legislation would have to be ratified by two independent power sources: the people's representatives in the House and the state legislatures' agents in the Senate."

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Amendment XXVIII

The United States Senate Restoration Act

An Act to restore a constitutional republic and Senate for the United States as provided for under Article I of the original Constitution for the United States. An act to restore and preserve state sovereignty and federalism.

SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the "Senate Restoration Act of 2005"

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted: Article XVII of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. Be it enacted. "We the People of the United States, . . . establish this Constitution for the United States of America" -- a contract or treaty between the Citizens of the States that created a federation regulating the distribution of power, rights and duties between the Citizens and the States which required ratification of the sovereign States to become valid. Article 1 Section 2 thereby guarantees to the Citizens that "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several State" -- "the people's house." Whereas, Article I, Section 3 guarantees representation in one branch of the legislature to each of the united States in that "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State." The Senate was "the states house" comprised of 'statesmen' not politicians or populists whereby the State as a whole was represented in the federal government and Senators were accountable to the States not special interests groups.

SECTION 3 Article XVII to the Constitution for the united States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-second Congress on the 13th of May, 1912, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 31st of May, 1913, to have been "ratified" by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States.

SECTION 4. Article XVII to the Constitution for the united States creates a a 'stateless' democracy (communist ideology) and grants no representation to the States in the legislature as guaranteed under the Constitutional republic to regulate and limit the power of the federal government, thereby rendering the Senate for the united States null and void.

SECTION 5. Be it enacted. Article XVII is expressly prohibited to the federal government under Article V, Clause 3 whereby "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." Article V, Clause 3 requires a unanimous vote of the States for any change of suffrage in the Senate. A "republican form" of government is guaranteed to each State by Article VI Section 4 and Article I Section 4 guarantees to the sovereign States that "The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators." Article X of the Constitution further guarantees that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

SECTION 6. Be it enacted. The interests of each State shall be represented in the federal government by the Senate for the United States that shall be composed of two Senators for each State chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.

SECTION 7. Be it enacted. No person shall be a Senator in the Congress for the United States who, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere; or any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States

SECTION 8. Be it enacted. If the Legislature of any State fails to choose a Senator in a timely manner, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until such time the Legislature can agree upon an appointee

SECTION 9. Be it enacted. If vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.

SECTION 10. Be it enacted. The Senate for each State shall consist of a representative to each major political party guaranteeing the States "equal Suffrage in the Senate" thus eliminating 'majority' and 'minority' control of the Senate by any political party

SECTION 11. Be it enacted. Each party shall elect a leader, an assistant leader, a party whip, deputy whips, other officers and committees

SECTION 12. Be it enacted. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

SECTION 13. Be it enacted. Each Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States and each Senate "shall determine the rules of it's proceedings" and may adopt or amend the rules of the previous Congressional Senate if they so choose

SECTION 14. Be it enacted. The Senate for the United States "shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments" and "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States."

SECTION 15. Be it enacted. Impeachment proceedings shall not be construed by the Senate to be a determination of whether or not the official has engaged in an 'indictable offense' under the laws of the United States; "but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law."

SECTION 16. Be it enacted. Any Senator from any State that shall obstruct and delay the duties of the Senate mandated under the Constitution, who fails to represent the State in the Senate or fails to adhere to the Congressional oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," shall be subject to removal and replacement by the Legislature of the respective State.

"these United States are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES"

Drafted March 16, 2005
a seventh generation American Patriot
and supporter of "The Judicial Reformation and Reorganization Act of 2005"
amended March 25, 2005
by Marian S. A. Tipp

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I like that idea.