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1 posted on 07/30/2017 1:30:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Go, Huckabee!!


2 posted on 07/30/2017 1:32:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Let’s undo amendment 16 while we’re about it.


3 posted on 07/30/2017 1:33:48 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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Does he mean the 19th?


4 posted on 07/30/2017 1:34:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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YES! YES! YES!
REPEAL! REPEAL!


7 posted on 07/30/2017 1:40:32 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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We'll NEVER get good candidate for opponents, either party, if the US Senator in place is running for re-election. That's because everyone will flock to the other party and "vote for the worst". The only way to stop that is to have State Legislatures choose the US Senator. The problem with that is the party not having a majority in the state legislature won't have a chance.

Perhaps there is no solution to an out-of-control, bought and paid for US Senate, backed when necessary by rogue judges. That just might be the downfall of the nation.

8 posted on 07/30/2017 1:43:00 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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"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."

There you go...best idea going..!!

12 posted on 07/30/2017 1:47:20 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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I agree, we should repeal the 17th.

At the very least we need new Republicans.

Alexander, Corker, Flake, Gardner, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Toomey, Capito, Rounds, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse, Ernst and Shelby are all Democrats in R jerseys.


19 posted on 07/30/2017 1:55:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Repeal the 17th - yes, yes, yes!!!!

With enactment of the 17th, States lost tremendous power which the central government took over with glee!!


26 posted on 07/30/2017 2:08:34 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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No, don't repeal it. Does anyone here know the history of state legislatures selecting Senators right up until the passage of the 17th?

It became corrupt and full of smokey backroom dealing with bribes and back-scratching.

Let Senators get voted by the people - but they would have to win a majority of the counties within their state. It would be an electoral college sort of. This would eliminate the urban centers from picking the winners and losers.

28 posted on 07/30/2017 2:10:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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Agree 100%.

But the repeal will NEVER start in Congress. Article V is the only hope for our Republic.


31 posted on 07/30/2017 2:15:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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I’m for it, but:

It would only basically achieve one thing, getting a lot of the money out of senate races.

There are some states that would have a much different senate membership if the legislatures appointed: VA, for example. But in AZ, I seriously doubt the state legislature would have tossed out McTurd for anyone else, let alone Kelli Ward. Ditto Flakey.

The MAJOR advantage of repeal of the 17th would be that senators would once again at least somewhat take the view that they were representing their STATE and not “the people” of the state, which should produce some strengthening of federalism. But it’s not a panacea.


40 posted on 07/30/2017 3:02:05 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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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.


43 posted on 07/30/2017 3:19:58 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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Huckabee is smarter than I ever gave him credit for. Bravo Huck!
50 posted on 07/30/2017 3:34:53 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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Nothing will change unless the 16th Amendment is repealed.

ALL of today’s political problems stem from that seed.


53 posted on 07/30/2017 3:51:53 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Not a guarantee Obamacare would go away. State legislatures like the Medicaid subsidies.


57 posted on 07/30/2017 5:23:54 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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This is a great idea. Let’s implement term limits at the same time. Two birds, one stone.


62 posted on 07/30/2017 5:50:29 PM PDT by upchuck (...Republicans are not investigating Clinton Crimes... because they are afraid of the Clintons- Newt)
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Why have U.S. Senators at all?

Just let the state governors represent whatever the senators duties were/are. Senators are supposed to represent the wishes of the states they represent, so, why not have real representation of how each state feels? Senators have been going their own way, and are not representing the wishes of their respective states.


65 posted on 07/30/2017 6:51:29 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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Great idea


66 posted on 07/30/2017 7:01:35 PM PDT by vortec94
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I’d like to see no out-out-of state money and no corporate money in campaigns.


72 posted on 10/04/2017 12:12:40 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said said "it is time to move on" for the GOP.

I think we should start with McConnell "moving on" to spend more time with his family and less time messing up mine!

73 posted on 10/04/2017 12:15:04 PM PDT by ssaftler (What's an NFL?)
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