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Abolish the Senate and Electoral College? Why Not Tear Up the Constitution?
American Thinker ^ | December 12, 2018 | T.R. Clancy

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: butthurtlefty; electoralcollege; senate
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1 posted on 03/20/2019 8:18:49 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

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.


2 posted on 03/20/2019 8:20:35 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Idiocy non pareil.
3 posted on 03/20/2019 8:20:45 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

>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.


4 posted on 03/20/2019 8:25:17 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

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.


5 posted on 03/20/2019 8:29:17 PM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Memo To John Dingell, Jr:

Click the Pic


6 posted on 03/20/2019 8:29:26 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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To: Adder; All; FReepers

7 posted on 03/20/2019 8:32:14 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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To: dp0622

They are obsessed with showing white voters the “Constitution is too outdated” mantra for 2020 and 2024


8 posted on 03/20/2019 8:36:16 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

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.


9 posted on 03/20/2019 8:37:40 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The Senate is somewhat pointless now, but that is because State Houses no longer elect Senators.


10 posted on 03/20/2019 8:38:20 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

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.


11 posted on 03/20/2019 8:43:19 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Fiddlstix

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.


12 posted on 03/20/2019 8:43:46 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Fungi
Sounds like they’re not real confident in winning anything in 2020. They’ll probably lose the House again as well.

If you look up 3 ALARM DUMPSTER FIRE in the dictionary, there’s a description of Granny Polident’s Democrat Party in 2019 when you got ISIS brides and a beer wench leading it off a cliff.

13 posted on 03/20/2019 8:44:01 PM PDT by atc23
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
There is a reason for the EC


14 posted on 03/20/2019 8:45:37 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: atc23

Why don’t these LIB lunatics move to Cuba or venezuela? What hate-filled nitwits .


15 posted on 03/20/2019 8:46:38 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
We should abolish the Senate and the Electoral College because they're undemocratic...

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..."

16 posted on 03/20/2019 8:46:47 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Saving that graphic.


17 posted on 03/20/2019 8:46:51 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: hanamizu

“...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.


18 posted on 03/20/2019 8:49:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Re: Why Not Tear Up the Constitution?

Without the Electoral College, the United States Constitution would have never been ratified by the smaller states.


19 posted on 03/20/2019 8:52:53 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: ASOC
That map is ridiculous. Don't believe everything you find on the Internet!

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

20 posted on 03/20/2019 9:01:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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