Posted on 12/06/2018 1:16:25 PM PST by C19fan
John Dingell knows a thing or two about how Congress works. First elected to the US House of Representatives at age 29 in a 1955 special election, Dingell left office in January 2015, nearly 60 years later. The last president he served with, Barack Obama, was born six years after Dingell entered office. His tenure was the longest in the history of the House or Senate, outlasting stalwarts like Strom Thurmond and Ted Kennedy by more than a decade.
So his call to abolish the Senate, announced in an Atlantic excerpt from his new memoir, is pretty notable.
He pairs the proposal with a set of more familiar, often vague good-government suggestions, like “the elimination of money in campaigns,” automatic voter registration, and “protection of an independent press.” Abolishing the Senate is far more specific and dramatic than the rest of his list. His argument is familiar, rooted in the institution’s failure to equally represent Americans regardless of where they live:
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
The only good thing I can say about Dingell is that he was almost always on the right side of the Second Amendment, and usually had an A+ rating from the NRA.
Somehow I suspect if the Senate was Democrat and Congress was Republican that he’d be calling for the abolishment of the Senate.
Regardless there’s a certain amount of truth - the Senate, and envisioned, was the House of Lords - beholden to the states. Congress was beholden to the people. Making the senate members elected directly was stupid and made the house redundant.
The man sounds senile.
What Dingell wants is a totalitarian one party Leftist state and I am sure VOX agrees with him.
Wow! He IS as stupid as he looks!
To fix Congress, abolish the Democrats.
“John Dingell knows a thing or two about how Congress works”
The headline says otherwise.
Sure. This is how it starts.
Abolish the Senate, then call for a “new Constitution”.
Then they can have the “People’s Republic of America”, with complete one party (Democrat) control.
Once they flood the country with the same mindless stupid people that turned their own countries into Banana Republics, the stage will be set.
Dingle is close. Abolish the 17th amendment and we are on our way to better government.
5.56mm
Term Limits.
One and done.
No more Dingalls
No. You’d have to change or replace the constitution first.
No. You’d have to change or replace the constitution first.
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It can be done. You just need 2/3’s of both houses of Congress and it must be ratified by only 50 states.
Anyone else think that calling for the abolition of the Senate just after the Republicans increased their majority in that chamber is a bit suspicious?
Dingle and Barry go together like pain and ass.
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A lump of (usually dried) feces stuck in the hair / wool / fur / legislative process etc. near the anus of an animal, including a human US citizen.
Just a quiblle. The Congress consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. When you write ‘Congress’, I think you mean ‘House of Representatives.’
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