Posted on 01/26/2025 10:01:25 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
And I don't know who the heck you are. How long have you been on FR for me not to know?
This article could have been written 4 years ago. Why wasn’t it? I think we know.
I suspect we won’t be able to topple Cornyn in 2026 primary after he vote to confirm Hegseth.
Gosh, if the left is this upset, then maybe they’ll get behind the push to repeal the 17th and return the election of senators to the various state legislators so that the entire states themselves are represented, not just the cities of NYC and LA.
OK, fine, this is a great argument for repealing the 17th Amendment. Have at it, I will help in any small way that I possibly can. Senators were supposed to represent their states, as the state legislators saw the interest of their states. They weren’t supposed to be like the House, responding to the fickle will of the public every 6 years. For sure, they weren’t supposed to be going to other states and raising campaign funds to run at home. How someone is representing their own state by going across the country and raising funds is beyond me. By raising funds elsewhere, they are very clearly representing money interests in other states, not the interests of their state.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. That way, they won’t be worried about being primary.
Easier said than done. 2 separate amendments on booze-right?
“I suspect we won’t be able to topple Cornyn in 2026 primary after he vote to confirm Hegseth.“
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People have not forgotten how reflexively anti-gun Cornholio is. That is just the tip of the iceberg; Cornholio is a RINO through and through, except for the year before an election, when he magically transforms into a solid conservative. I think people are sick and tired of being lied to, and having our senator vote against a president of his own party repeatedly. Ken Paxton is very popular, and he is rumored to be quite interested in the Senate seat. If he runs, I will support him with both my money and my vote. I don’t think that I am alone, not by a longshot.
Translation:
You are threatening our power and we do not like it!
I would vote for Paxton too, but I expect Cornyn to prevail. TX voters don’t know Cornyn’s full voting record.
Every author, editor, and publisher who touches this subject without addressing the issues of the 17th does not have credibility.
The disconnect between post-17th senators and the Framers intent for the institution is there for anyone to see, but was putridly on display in the aftermath of Obamacare.
By January of 2011, twenty-seven states challenged the constitutionality of Obamacare in federal court. Twenty-two senators from those states had voted for the law. In seven of the twenty-seven states, both senators voted for Obamacare!
IOW, Obamacare would have been a dead letter in our Framers' Senate.
Having dispensed with representing state legislatures since 1913, these at-large politicians from geographic areas called states gather in an institution with little apparent purpose beyond reelection and accumulating wealth.
The modern senate is as useful to the continued life of our republic as an appendix is to the human body.
Both are vestigial organs that long ago lost their original functions. Like an appendix, which can burst and kill its owner, a senate without institutional pride and purpose may, through neglect of its duties, one day endanger the continuance of our beloved republic.
https://articlevblog.com/2018/01/federalism-in-the-first-congress/
" Winning candidates should represent the majority of voters. Instant runoffs are a better, faster, and cheaper way to ensure majority-winner elections than traditional runoff elections. This system is also known as ranked choice voting.
I know, but at least the difficulty prevents some bad stuff, like the ERA.
25 years or so for me. 30,000 or so posts. Maybe you don’t recognize my nic because I don’t say stupid stuff that makes the forum look like cranks?
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