Posted on 07/30/2017 1:30:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Friday called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment and the return to senators selected by state legislatures after the Senate GOP's effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare died in a late-night vote.
The 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913 and established the popular election of senators. Previously, senators were elected by state legislatures.
@GovMikeHuckabee Time to repeal 17th Amendment. Founders had it right-Senators chosen by state legislatures. Will work for their states and respect 10th amid
The Senate's "skinny repeal" of ObamaCare failed late Thursday night by a vote of 51-49. The bill would have repealed major parts of the Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate and would have defunded Planned Parenthood. The vote failed after three Republican senators, John McCain (Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine), defected and voted against the bill.
“We must now return to the correct way of legislating and send the bill back to committee, hold hearings, receive input from both sides of the aisle, heed the recommendations of nation’s governors, and produce a bill that finally delivers affordable health care for the American people,” McCain said in a statement after the vote.
With the latest vote's failure, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said said "it is time to move on" for the GOP.
"What we tried to accomplish for the American people was the right thing for the country," McConnell said early Friday. "I think the American people are going to regret that we couldn't find another way forward."
Huckabee slammed on Twitter the Republicans who sunk the repeal plans:
@GovMikeHuckabee CNN reports Dems will give Lifetime Achievement Award to Murkowski Collins and McCain. Schumer so happy he cried.
Article V repeal the 17th Amendment ping!
That’s good.
If Senators are not representing states, then why do we need them at all? Just get rid of the Senate altogether and turn its duties over to the House of Representatives.
To deny the sovereign people an Article V COS is to deny the American Revolution.
I worked with numerous pathological liars and even dated a couple (oops - big OUCH - double ouch). Oh yes, it was painful. All of the experiences.
I could smell Obama’s fraud a mile away.....
A manufactured past with doctored documents, a “Mein Kampf” book like Adolph Hitler, ghost-written, just like Adolph Hitler’s book and a we-are-the-world-antichrist agenda.
I picked up one of his books at Barnes and Noble and by perchance (or perhaps not) landed on a page that clearly told me he was not a Biblical Christian - despite him “quoting” the Scripture - much like his father Satan did to Jesus Christ in the wilderness.
Agree. Our Framers crafted the duties of the senate under the assumption that senators were employed by state legislatures.
To turn senators into three-term, at-large, roving state representatives was a horrid mistake.
Repeal the 17A.
But at least it would force their voters to become more engaged in state government politics. And if current GOP control of most state legislatures could translate into super-majorities in the US Senate, future congresses would be controlled by conservatives and libs would be thrown into the fringe dustbin where they belong.
Of course, there's no equivalency between true conservatives and the phony GOPe of today, so it will be a generational struggle to re-educate the public.
That leaves only Paul, Cruz, Lee, Risch, Crapo, Barrasso, Kennedy, and a handful of others.
That leaves only Paul, Cruz, Lee, Risch, Crapo, Barrasso, Kennedy, and a handful of others.
Yes....16th AND 17th.
$9 TRILLION in debt
Race troubles
Marxist perversions pushed onto a Judeo-Christian nation
Whatta legacy.
I know....commies, everywhere, are elated.
Nothing will change unless the 16th Amendment is repealed.
ALL of today’s political problems stem from that seed.
He did well in in his presidential run against McCain with some really great presentations about the Fair Tax.
The IRS has gotten so much more horribly worse right out in the open that it is time for everyone to take a look at it.
NO!! I would have NEVER believed, on 9/12/2001, that America would elect (even fraudently) a Muslim usurper.
Still in shock over what the Commies have gotten away with.
Not a guarantee Obamacare would go away. State legislatures like the Medicaid subsidies.
Thanks for the ping.
I am on board.
“... the reasons cited for the 17th Amendment were corrupted state legislators ...”
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Actually, that is not true.
Chronic vacancies in the senate,
and the populist movement were the reasons given.
None of us would have ever believed it.
And yet there it was.
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