Posted on 02/20/2012 1:03:56 PM PST by Starman417
Actually, most of the Progessive Erea amendments, except for maybe one...
Read some nasty letters to the editor of the Las vegas Review today concerning how Reids kid got his current gub mint lackey job that others had better qualifications for.
Surprise surprise.
The Vegas Mobs best friend EVER.
Democrats know their limitations, and passing a budget is one of them.
And making Senators LESS accountable to the people, and MORE accountable to the powers that be - will make them....
a) more likely to pass laws the people favor
b) more likely to pass laws entrenched interests favor
??????
April 8th, 1913 was the beginning of the decline of our Republic...
ONLY BECAUSE OF REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTERS!
Oh wait. Budgets can't be filibustered, by law.
Never mind.
"The fiasco continued when the replacement process for the city attorney (of Henderson, Nevada) was rigged so Harry Reid's son would qualify for the job. Josh Reid got the job -- and a big pay raise to boot. "
Las Vegas Review Journal
For a second there I thought you were that Lew guy from the White Hut.
Josh Reid was sworn in Tuesday as Henderson city attorney.
Reid will be paid a salary of $190,000, not including benefits. The pay range for the job is $127,000 to $199,000 a year.
Reid was appointed to the post on Nov. 29 by the City Council. He was chosen over former interim City Attorney Christine Guerci-Nyhus, who was the one other finalist for the position.
Reid thanked the council, as well as Guerci-Nyhus for her work in the city attorneys office.
Id like to thank the City Council for this opportunity to serve in the city of Henderson, Reid said. We have a really dedicated group of individuals.
Reid replaces former City Attorney Elizabeth Quillin, who resigned in August after a DUI arrest.
Las Vegas Sun, January 3, 2012
And another Freeper who thinks he’s smarter than the Founding Fathers opens his yap.
Another reason to insist on TERM LIMITS! Make 'em have to keep digging up more candidates who now know that there is a dead end, that they won't be enriched and treated like royalty forever.
If you don’t have a formal budget, you can’t be punished for not sticking to the budget. Not passing a budget is the Senate’s way of getting unlimited spending, government elite approved.
Why not go all the way and just get 38 states together to tell the President, Congress and the Supreme Court to just go jump into a lake?
That group supercedes anything else, period.
We the return of states rights and have the feds work for them, not the other way around.
Ensconced in Washington is untouchable. Repealing the 17th would make them more accountable to locals not less IMO. By appointment of the State would make elections of local officials all the more important. It’s how the Representative Republic form of government differs from the current form of Democracy. The US House was intended to be elected by the population, with shorter terms, thus ensuring that body would represent the current whims of the country. Hence the reason it is empowered to be the body that generates appropriation bills. The Senate was designed to house the elder statesmen of a State that had proven their wisdom and leadership, so as to act as the State’s voice in the Federal legislature. Plus general election of Federal Senators ensures that special interest money trumps political positions. That is one of the reasons why the status quo seems to be the goal of either parties “candidates” I believe.
Special interest monies will certainly trump political positions when Senators are appointed rather than elected - without even the clarifying tonic of electoral input.
The reason money for campaigns is how campaigns are won or lost and how politicians are bought and sold is because the majority of American voters are highly influenced by 30 second advertisements.
The same sort of scumbags will get elected using the same scummy tactics playing the same scummy game - except now those scum will directly appoint Senators (in “smokey back rooms”) rather than having the issue decided by the electorate.
There is, as you allude to, little support either among the political class, or among the citizenry - for repeal of the 17th Amendment.
Based upon the recent conviction of Blagojevich - I don't think it is going to be gathering much steam either.
Recall if you will how Governor Blagojevich took his important duty to appoint a Senator for the people of his State..... I paraphrase.... “This F*cking Plum falls in my F*cking lap - and I am supposed to GIVE IT AWAY? NO F*cking way!”.
A Senatorial seat is a “plum” and very very few currently in government are going to give it away when they can charge as much as the market will bear.
Bought and paid for Senators right out the gate instead of those compromised due to the necessity of money for advertisements in campaigns is not exactly an improvement, IMHO.
The big problem with this budget issue....a real joke I know, is Americans can’t wrap their minds around the concept of a budget for the federal gubmint.
Most Americans don’t even know the federal gubmint operates with no budget and hasn’t for a couple of years.
The media doesn’t cover it and the Blue Blood elected GOP don’t really want to go there either. Might muss head hairs and cause rifts with friends across the aisle.
It all makes me ill.
Prior to the 17th amendment, the Senators were not appointed, they were elected by the state legislators.
Theoretically it would be more difficult for special interest money to be effective in all the state legislative races than in the one statewide election of a U.S. Senator.
The reason money for campaigns is how campaigns are won or lost and how politicians are bought and sold is because the majority of American voters are highly influenced by 30 second advertisements.
Although each state is different, in NH (a very large house of representatives) it is very easy for each citizen to personally meet their state representative. The Town of Brentwood has 1 rep and 3000 voters. I know the last two reps that served personally. That makes the 30 second sound bite much less effective.
The same sort of scumbags will get elected using the same scummy tactics playing the same scummy game - except now those scum will directly appoint Senators (in smokey back rooms) rather than having the issue decided by the electorate.
Granted both systems have had scumbags elected.
The venerable James Wilson was the only member of the Constitutional Convention that advocated for the direct election of Senators. He lost the argument by a vote of 10-1 at the convention.
The main reasoning for the election by the legislature was to appease the anti-federalists who feared that the federal government would overstep its authority if the state legislators were not represented in Congress. This has obviously occurred since 1913, but that doesn't however prove causation.
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