Posted on 11/02/2018 10:23:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
This d-bag is on my Airport List.
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> Would he be writing this if HRC were elected? <
Nope. Instead he’d be writing about repealing the 22nd Amendment (the 22nd says no more than two terms for a president).
More moronic drivel from the Clown show.
No JoNah, the American people need a media that tells the truth and does not mindlessly lie daily to push the DC clown club narrative. Infantile poltical stupidity on your part. You kowtow to your enemies and piss off your allies.
You are suppose to be part of that push back for the Truth but instead you rather be a poltical moron and spend all your time shooting your own side in the back.
I do appreciate these bone heads outting themselves.
The problem with a Parliamentary system is that there is no check on the party in power. “No parliament can bind a successor” is the rule in the UK. If we had that here you would have socialized medicine thanks to Barry and Nancy, and it would be impossible to undo (as we can see from GOP efforts just to reverse Obamacare).
Thank God our forefathers had the foresight to create the Senate and independent judiciary (though the latter has been a massive disappointment in deferring to Congress).
Remember the GOP will not be in power forever - if you like your guns then you better damn well be thankful we don’t have a parliamentary system here.
Pretty sure Chuck Schumer can’t do it, didn’t he list the HofR, the Senate, and POTUS?
Well 2 of 3 ain’t bad I guess...
> The 17th. was a killer... <
Yep. But there was a good reason for overhauling the original way senators were chosen. As you probably know, sometimes state legislators became deadlocked, and could not agree on a senator. And sometimes the process was corrupt.
But the 17th was an overkill. The original system could have been fixed by involving the state’s governor. Let the governor appointing an Acting Senator until the legislators can agree.
Unfortunately, this horse has left the barn. We’re stuck with the 17th unless a Convention of States is called. And the GOP is too timid to do that.
I think that perhaps the 16th amendment was the first strike, and we may have already “struck out”…
George Washington strongly warned the nation about political parties in his farewell address...
Where was this Constitutionalist when the Kenyan from Indonesia was usurping the Presidency?
It’s all about keeping the Cheap Labor Express running with Bush League Republicans like the ones you listed.
Jonah is just a hack who flacks for them.
Johah is DEAD WRONG here. All he has to do to prove it is actually read the statements of the members of congress who put this amendment forward. It was written for the benefit of newly freed slaves, not non-citizens who happened to sneak in here to pop out an anchor baby.
Jonah is always wrong.
He’s horrible. You’d think he and kristol would just come and join Pelosi and Schumer, get it over with.
Parliamentary government has been described as “dictatorship interrupted by elections”.
It’s winner-take-all since the majority party controls all branches of government.
For supporters of gun rights, the most glaring example is Australia. The prime minister decided he didn’t like people owning pump action shotguns, and voila! Parliament rams through a law making the Remington 870 illegal to own, ex post facto, and owners either must turn in their (registered) 870’s for pittance compensation, or the police show up at their door.
The Founding Fathers were intimately familiar with the British Parliament & its power to make Americans’ lives miserable, and they insured that the principle of separation of powers would form the basis of representative government in the United States.
Australians like to boast that there is no gun culture in their society and that they trust their government, unlike us paranoid Yanks. Fine and dandy, mate.
I think Woodrow Wilson first proposed this.
“The 17th amendment required that senators be elected by voters, not state legislatures. The 19th amendment allowed women to vote.”
...and it’s all been downhill from there.
Goldberg is one of the shallower conservative pundits!
I wondered when we wouild start to hear hints of some kind of “sharing the power”.
Sorry tards, but that idiot, Trent Lott, is not around anymore.
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