[gortklattu]

The current crop of senators will not allow any movement for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to take hold. We'll have to count on others to accomplish this herculian task.

Can you imagine Robert Byrd advocating something like this? No way!

What worries me about all these so-called "reforms" is that they are just exactly that: RE-forms. They are not improvements. They may actually be re=forming for the worse.

Another sad fact in this matter is how shallow thinking rules so much of politics. If you say something will stop corruption, including getting rid of the police, you will have your followers in today's system.

[Political Junkie Too]

What worries me about all these so-called "reforms" is that they are just exactly that: RE-forms. They are not improvements. They may actually be re=forming for the worse. Another sad fact in this matter is how shallow thinking rules so much of politics.

Hamilton or Madison wrote in Federalist 62 (Concerning the Constitution of the Senate):

It may be affirmed, on the best grounds, that no small share of the present embarrassments of America is to be charged on the blunders of our governments; and that these have proceeded from the heads rather than the hearts of most of the authors of them. What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of deficient wisdom; so many impeachments exhibited by each succeeding against each preceding session;

-PJ