Posted on 12/06/2018 1:16:25 PM PST by C19fan
John Dingell knows a thing or two about how Congress works. First elected to the US House of Representatives at age 29 in a 1955 special election, Dingell left office in January 2015, nearly 60 years later. The last president he served with, Barack Obama, was born six years after Dingell entered office. His tenure was the longest in the history of the House or Senate, outlasting stalwarts like Strom Thurmond and Ted Kennedy by more than a decade.
So his call to abolish the Senate, announced in an Atlantic excerpt from his new memoir, is pretty notable.
He pairs the proposal with a set of more familiar, often vague good-government suggestions, like “the elimination of money in campaigns,” automatic voter registration, and “protection of an independent press.” Abolishing the Senate is far more specific and dramatic than the rest of his list. His argument is familiar, rooted in the institution’s failure to equally represent Americans regardless of where they live:
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I grew up near that senile old POS downriver ‘rat (metro Detroit).. Never did like that SCUMBAG.
ESAD Dingellberry.
If the Senate were abolished, I imagine several of the states with small populations would leave the union. That was part of the bargain to get agreement on the Constitution.
Good thing you have no power to do it you nutcase.59 years in the House and you learned nothing.
“So his call to abolish the Senate, announced in an Atlantic excerpt from his new memoir, is pretty notable.”
Or, it could just the garbled gibberish spilling out of his age-addled mind...
Just sayin’...
"What about Dingle-Norwood?"
To protect an independent press, you have to have an independent press, not one that is beholden to one party.
It is good that these totalitarian bolsheviks feel comfortable enough to speak plainly of their hatred for the Constitution, and by extension their hatred of the Declaration, and by extension their hatred of the nation. Alas, I believe their animus towards the founding principles is shared by a majority of the populace. We were perhaps a center-right nation until Bush 41 who began dismantling the Reagan Legacy on Day One (his inaugural address was a direct repudiation of Reagan and a cheer for the swamp), but four decades of relentless success by the cultural marxists and their iron-fisted control over every single societal institution suggests the future will be a challenge for us patriots, and once again the tree of liberty will need to be nourished.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
With all due respect to former Sen. Dingell, he knows how the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress works.
In other words Dingell is likely clueless that the Founding States had intended for citizens to work government social spending programs through their respective state government, not the feds.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
The hold-up is that the states won’t find the revenues to compete with federal social spending programs until patriots support Pres. Trump in working with the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments. This is because the corrupt feds use those amendments to steal state revenues though unconstitutional federal taxes in order to pay for unconstitutional, vote-winning federal social spending programs.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Also, patriots are encouraged to watch Dan Borgino’s excellent 37 min video (associated book). The video helps to flesh out the alleged Mueller conspiracy against Pres. Trump.
Wasn’t this the plot of Palpatine in Star Wars?
Incorrect.
It must be ratified by 3/4 of the states. Currently 38 states are required.
Nope, the US Senate isn’t an amendment. It’s in the Constitution itself. It requires 50 states.
Actually, it requires 3/4 of the states as i mentioned above. To remove the US Senate from the legislative branch requires constitutional amendment since it is established by the Constitution. It can not be done by legislative fiat.
Dingle is an idiot.
Right
Not happening
But not as stupid as the voters that punished the US for 60 years.
Actually the Senate (or rather the equal representation of each state in the Senate cannot be altered by a Constitutional Amendment—it’s specifically mentioned in Article V which deals with amendments. All (that would be 50) of the states would have to agree to it. Practically speaking the only way of getting rid of the Senate is getting rid of the Constitution itself.
Of course that might be what they really want. The Constitution, written by dead white men, has all of those outdated ideas like God-given rights, the electoral college, the 2nd Amendment just seems to get in the way of “progress”.
The parasite and demagogue served for 60 years -- what we need is TERM LIMITS, and the outlawing of his political party.
Wrong.
The Amendment power does not extend to abolishing the Senate. That is forbidden by Article V.
Many have said our congress is an uncontrolled mass of humanity divided in two bodies with a common goal-—remain in office at all costs. They are much too numerous as only about 25 senators and around 40 house members ever accomplish a damned thing. Reduce the size of both with term limits.
To fix Cogress: outlaw liberals and RINOs.
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