[Onelifetogive]

Matt Bai of the New York Times wrote in June that, “Putting Senate seats in the hands of lawmakers would not empower states so much as it would resurrect the old-fashioned American political machine – a condition voters in the Internet age would tolerate for about 10 minutes.”

I can accept that. So, let's figure out a way to correct the problem.

The idea behind the appointed Senators was to defent the interests of their state. How about the Senate set become a political appointment of each state governor. It could be similar to a cabinet position. He reports to the governor and serves at the will of the governor. Governors are already high-profile positions. Increasing his/her responsibility would not make the position more political.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

That would effectively give the governor a dictatorial/monarchical power, regarding the appointment of Senators. I would prefer that the legislatures do it, provided that we’ve broomed them a few times first.