The Turtle done lost his mind.
Turtle came out of his coma to say this...?
Classic GOP circular firing squad. Marxist Democrats have billionaires lined up to finance their campaigns while GOP plot for ways to cut their donations. Are we tired of losing yet?
McConnell is FILTHY DIRTY!
If McC is so all-knowing, why isn’t he back home helping Daniel Cameron in the last days of the governor’s race?
Interesting that we apparently are now all for McCain-Feingold style “reforms” and now oppose the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
Used to be entirely the opposite around here as we can see from the comments section:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2848799/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3140175/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448757/posts
The 17th Amendment changed the Constitutional method for electing US Senators from being chosen by their state legislatures to popular vote like the House of Representatives. It was done in 1913 with President Wilson under the guise of making elections more ‘democratic’.
The reality was that it put the US Senate into the pocket of Corporate America, because senatorial candidates now needed lots of money to run for the Senate, as opposed to being senior politicians in their own state, which effectively cost nothing.
Currently it takes about 20 million dollars to campaign for a Senate seat, and for re election it means a sitting senator must raise 10 thousand dollars a day, every day, for six years. Consequently, they spend all their time fund raising, and leave the actual work of legislating to their staff.
Additionally, Corporate America no longer exists, and the Senate is now under the thumb of a cabal of unAmerican international corporate conglomerates, who have no loyalty to the US.
The only reasonable solution to the massive bribery and corruption in DC is to repeal the 17th Amendment as soon as possible.