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To: billbears
You are pointing to partisanship as constituting the biggest problem faced by the Senate as an institution.

I am sure they'd set that sort of thing aside if we'd just let them steal and then executed them at the end of their single term, don't you?

Or do you think Senators would continue to be partisans NO MATTER WHAT?

40 posted on 05/30/2005 6:49:20 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: muawiyah
You are pointing to partisanship as constituting the biggest problem faced by the Senate as an institution.

No I'm pointing to partisanship by the masses as one of the biggest problems we face with the Senate. The Senate has set that aside long ago and they steal at whim, playing up only to the masses when it comes time to ask to be sent back to Washington every 6 years. The general public can't handle the complexity of many of the Senate bills so they find comfort in being labeled into one of two parties. Senators know this and play to that. The Framers knew this and set up our form of government accordingly. If popular election of the Senate were to be removed, that would be an important aspect to return us to a Constitutional Republic and less concern on which party (football team) currently is on top of the hill

Your continued statement of executing someone at the end of their term is not only childish but an example of the lack of understanding I have been speaking about from the general public on the Senate. To even joke publically about such a thing shows a level of maturity I would not want in someone voting for who should or should not sit in the Senate

64 posted on 05/30/2005 7:16:56 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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