Posted on 03/20/2019 8:18:49 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Former Congressman John Dingell, Jr., a partisan Democrat whose immediate family has controlled the same seat in the House of Representatives for 86 years, has some suggestions for fixing Congress. We should abolish the Senate and the Electoral College because they're undemocratic, "despite the constitutional hurdles of doing so." In 2015, Dingell retired from the U.S. House seat he's held since 1955, the seat he inherited from his father, John Dingell, Sr., who first won it in 1932. The seat has passed to John Jr.'s much-younger wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, who was just re-elected in November. (Full disclosure: For 20 years, my wife and I have lived in Dearborn, Michigan, which is inside the Dingell fiefdom and looks as though it may be in perpetuity.)
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Don’t give them ideas.
All no good white men signing it anyway.
Some slaveholders no less.
MLK beat the #### out of hookers but there’s a million streets named after him.
Talk about hypocrisy.
>We should abolish the Senate and the Electoral College because they’re undemocratic, “despite the constitutional hurdles of doing so.”
If course they are undemocratic. This is a Republic.
They want to abolish the college because that can’t pass it.
They KNOW why the EC ixists,,,but our children don’t because WE do not teach them.
They are obsessed with showing white voters the “Constitution is too outdated” mantra for 2020 and 2024
The Senate is pretty much untouchable as long as the Constitution is in force. Article V, which deals with amendments says that states’ equal representation in the Senate is not subject to amendment, unless they all agree. The reality is that the left is starting to say that the Constitution needs to be replaced for them to accomplish what they want to do. I wonder what else they’d do away with.
The Senate is somewhat pointless now, but that is because State Houses no longer elect Senators.
sure that will happen if the assholes win CWII. But they are going to have to put their ass on the line and do some bleeding to get there.
Not a problem, their move.
It’s not even the states. It would be big cities, big money controlling it all. The only “upside” is that it wont last too long. If one like post apocalyptic movies and scenarios,
they’ll get to see them first hand. So called anarchists of today will be begging for what they envisioned, not what really happens.
If you look up 3 ALARM DUMPSTER FIRE in the dictionary, theres a description of Granny Polidents Democrat Party in 2019 when you got ISIS brides and a beer wench leading it off a cliff.
Why don’t these LIB lunatics move to Cuba or venezuela? What hate-filled nitwits .
Good!
Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion..."
Saving that graphic.
“...as long as the Constitution is in force”
And there’s the rub. They’ll devise some other devious way around the Senate representation like they are doing the end-run around the EC.
Re: Why Not Tear Up the Constitution?
Without the Electoral College, the United States Constitution would have never been ratified by the smaller states.
LA County - 10.1 M
United States - 327.8 M
7 Gray States - 146.5 M
43 Blue States - 181.6M
LA County is 1/18 of the blue states on the map. Even all of CA (almost 40 M) is far less than the 43 Blue States MINUS CA (141 M).
Am I missing something here?
Area | Population |
---|---|
LA County | 10,160,000 |
Population US | 327,800,000 |
CA | 39,550,000 |
TX | 28,700,000 |
IL | 12,700,000 |
NY | 19,500,000 |
OH | 11,700,000 |
PA | 12,800,000 |
FL | 21,300,000 |
Population of Above 7 States | 146,250,000 |
Population of Rest of US | 181,550,000 |
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