Posted on 02/10/2010 12:10:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I don’t get this. So, there would be no primary?
The legislature would choose the candidates, but how many?
And how does this not aid someone like Byrd who simply can send federal dollars home to balance the state books?
To continue, this just seems like a way to make bribery easier. Instead of buying off the voters, I can simply buy off 20 or so legislators by promising them federal dollars for their district.
Suddenly, Bobby Nobody from Beckley County, WV can have a bridge on I-77 named after him.
While I agree in printable, I don’t think this half measure is the way to do it. As it will almost certainly backfire, killing the over all causes.
This is an easy target for a largely ignorance population be sold into being against.
The best in term measure is simply a senate recall mechanism initiated by either the voters in a referendum or the legislator more dynamically.
That works for me :)!!!!
This proposal means nearly half the states in this country would never elect Republican Senators again. Scott Brown would’ve lost by a 9-to-1 margin in MA in favor of “Marcia” Coakley.
1,000,000% correct FM!
But our belief is that returning to the original intent of the Constitution would, over time, change the US Senate into a body very, very jealous of the rights and prerogatives of the individual States. That is the point of repealing the 17th Amend. Democrat and Republican are not the problem. It is the Progressive Philosophy to consolidate power in the national government that has infected both parties that is the problem.
At least this is how those of us pushing for this see it.
I understand the argument, we had this discussion recently in another thread, but you simply can’t get around the makeup of the legislatures. People believe the quality of the Senators would improve, I really don’t. It only serves to make them that much less accountable to the people. I know what kind of hacks my state would’ve sent to DC, and it chills my blood. It wouldn’t have been for 140 years until last year we would’ve been able to send a Republican to the Senate.
I doubt that. If the People are strong enough Republican to elect a Republican Senator their State legislature/assembly will appoint a Republican - or blow their chance at reelection.
Originally the US Senate represented the States and the House of Representatives represented We, the People. Now our State has no representation. Why do we have an Upper and Lower House at the Federal level when both are composed of elected politicians? With both being directly elected why not eliminate the Senate and combine both functions in the House?
Any particular reason we are trying to make Republican Senators extinct?
I’m not trying to do that. That’s why I said the legislatures need to be changed, in addition to Repeal. Without good legislators, you’ll just end up with a different group of jerks up there.
I’ll buy that big time.
So why not just eliminate the US Senate? Why two elected bodies, why not just one?
After raising taxes on every man, woman and child in the US, 0bama is going to cut costs by firing all those pesky Congressmen and Senators who just make it harder for him to have what he wants.
Hey, if Nebraska could eliminate it, why not ? It’d make things run smoother. Of course, that would include progress in good years and tyranny in bad. Always a downside.
I still want at representation by We the People. If 0bama does that it would mean a revolution!
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