Posted on 05/02/2019 2:51:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
Edited on 05/02/2019 5:08:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After more than two years of the Donald Trump presidency, Andrea Petrusky is ready for some fundamental changes in the way the United States government works.
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Not sure if the changes both want are really the same. Also most common folk just want the government to work for them.
“Repeal the 17th amendment and revert to state legislatures electing Senators, then we can START the conversation.”\
The buckets of dog crap who pass for state legislators in Colorado would probably elect Whoopie Goldberg.
I think the Russians and Chinese love this undermining of American politics. Keep going AP and you will get your wish of a totalitarian state where there will be no free press!
SEattle still have that Lenin statue in the public square?
If so, we don’t need any ‘insight’ from that little corner of the world.
you missed the best part: “trained as an environmental scientist”. That was the full stop. lol.
Republic > 10x democracy
Yeah.....you’re about 8 years late to the party honey.....
AP is full of educated moron Muslim brotherhood anti America vomits! Nothing good ever comes out of their filthy pens! A(ll)C(rap) is America’s #1 enemy!!!
More AP MSM using supposed polls and statistics to tell us what to think.
No thanks, AP.
Political Parity within all gov agencies and bureaucracies. President still gets to nominate the heads of all agencies but all hiring below the head must be a parity of political persuasion... no more than 60% of all employees can be of any one political party.
“The mystery of goverment is not how Washington works, it’s how to make it stop.”
P.J. O’Rourke
They were okay with the communist thug’s lawless “I have a pen and a phone” behavior, but they freak out when a real American restores the rule of law. Globalists disgust me.
“Right now we’re being shown all of the loopholes, the president being able to do all the things that no president should,”
Always the vague generalities. Andrea Petrusky, dear, name JUST ONE THING the president is doing that is not authorized by the US Constitution. Don’t talk in banalities; give us specifics.
They were okay with the communist thug’s lawless “I have a pen and a phone” behavior, but they freak out when a real American restores the rule of law. Globalists disgust me.
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During Obama’s presidency, one of the lefty talking heads, possibly Bill Maher, fantasized about how great it would be if Obama could be dictator just long enough to set everything right. Yet these same idiots are just CERTAIN they are the “real” patriots.
Eliminate winner take all Electoral College results and require Electoral College votes distributed proportionally according to the total state vote.
I fully understand your “Whoopi Goldberg” concern, and it does have merit as an argument against. The theory is, state legislators are much more closely accountable to their constituents and the legislature elected Senators would become more accountable for Congressional action affecting their state. Congress passing unfunded mandates for the states should be much harder to pass. We can’t stop it if a state wants to populate its legislature with a bunch of idiots. But this way, they have to elect a bunch of them to screw up, not just one or two to the US Senate.
A bigger issue is individual Senators selling out the interests of their constituents to rich donors. It can still happen, but makes it less likely. IMHO. one of the single most destructive practice is Senators selling out the interests of their constituents and the nation. While certainly not foolproof, the founding fathers were right about legislative election and it makes a lot of sense to me.
I am certainly willing to trust the Founding Fathers, and to put things back the way they had them.
After Obama did what he wanted without approval...the left now see a problem with it....
by somebody who is NOT acting that way.
Ironic huh?
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