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Sen. Feingold's Constitution
The Washington Post ^
| February 22, 2009
| George F. Will
Posted on 02/22/2009 7:11:41 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; stockpirate; ChrisInAR; AvOrdVet; MaggieCarta; indylindy; roamer_1; ...
A simple apology would have sufficed. Instead, Sen. Russ Feingold has decided to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the First Amendment with Feingold-McCain, more vandalism against the Constitution. "I will work with Democrat friends of mine as we address specific issues, like I always have..." U.S. Sen. John McCain, RINO-Ariz., 2002-02-19 Feingold's solution, of which John McCain is a co-sponsor, is to amend the 17th Amendment. It would be better to repeal it. What were you expecting from two Democrats? |
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:26:21 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: All
It stipulates popular election of senators...
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:28:04 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"It stipulates popular election of senators, under which system Wisconsin has elected, among others, Joe McCarthy,"
When Wisconsin sent PATRIOTS to DC.
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:33:04 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
From our
AIP Platform:
Repeal of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments
We consider the federal income tax to be destructive of our liberty, privacy, and prosperity. Therefore, we are working to bring about its complete elimination and the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We recommend that the current system be replaced by an equitable, simple, noninvasive, visible, efficient tax, one that does not destroy or even infringe upon our economic privacy and liberty.
We also call for the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment. Its enactment greatly reduced the power of our state legislatures and state governments which are much closer to the people and damaged our system of federalism.
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:34:44 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Where every principled conservative belongs: http://aipnews.com/mxPage.asp?ID=3)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It would be better to repeal it. About every 15 or 20 columns Will gets something right. This is one of those time.
L
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:36:27 PM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: EternalVigilance
What is your party’s position on how to prevent the numerous deadlocks on choosing Senators that plagued state legislatures prior to 1913?
Also, what is your party’s position regarding the Federal Reserve and the Gold Standard?
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:39:30 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct."...so they're giving total power to governors? ...like it is now? ...or back when only State legislature appointed the Senators? ...he's only confusing the issue(s)?
"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us. Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:39:49 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I hope this isn’t a backdoor to do away with presidential term limits... something already been introduced in the congress. I worry about slipping it into something like this when no one is paying attention... since this likely would receive 3/4 of the states voting for it.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The 17th Amendment destroyed our Republican form of government. The founders knew what they were doing when they formed our government.
The people had a house...the House of Representatives to serve the people in various districts. Then they formed the Senate, the state’s representatives in Washington D.C. In this way, the federal government was a partner with the states. The states had a say in how the federal government operated. The states couldn’t be railroaded by an overpowering central government.
Then came along the 17th Amendment and gave the people two houses and took the states out of the equation and made them subservient to the federal government...something the founding fathers did not want at all.
Repeal the 17th Amendment now!!!!!
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:41:32 PM PST
by
MissouriConservative
(If there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.)
To: skinkinthegrass
Mr. Will apparently wants to repeal the 17th Amendment and return to state legislatures choosing Senators.
To: Arizona Carolyn
It better not be. I sure don’t want Obama getting a permanent mandate for power like Hugo Chavez just did.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Arizona Carolyn
By “permanent mandate,” I mean the ability to be re-elected forever if that’s what the drooling masses want.
To: MissouriConservative
There is a reason the history of the 17th Amendment isn’t covered in publik skools.
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:44:32 PM PST
by
randomhero97
("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
To: EternalVigilance
Repeal of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments...I'm all for that.
"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us. Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:45:41 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
To: MissouriConservative
I would never want to lose the ability to vote for both Senators and Congress...so I would never vote to repeal the 17th amendment. Why would I allow an incompetent corrupt government to choose my Senator...no way.
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:46:38 PM PST
by
nyconse
(When you buy something, make an investment in your country. Buy American or bye bye America)
To: randomhero97
No way this would ever pass in the states so, it will not happen. Feingold’s bs won’t be ratified either.
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:47:53 PM PST
by
nyconse
(When you buy something, make an investment in your country. Buy American or bye bye America)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; rabscuttle385
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:49:45 PM PST
by
BufordP
("I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."--George "the Abandoner" Bush)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why are all you people fretting? Each time one of these "progressives" tries to "fix" things, he makes it worse. And each time they actually ram through some new outrage, it brings the Dark Times one step closer. We are going to be measuring blood spilled in number of acres covered 1 foot deep before the next inauguration.
Despite what those smug stupid communists like Feingold, and his lackey, McCain, believes, we have the brains, the will, the guns. We just need the one thing that exceeds our gag limit. And Feingold, Pelosy, Reid, et.al. are searching, desperately, high and low, to find that last indigestable tidbit.
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:50:12 PM PST
by
jonascord
(Hey, we have the Constitution. What's to worry about?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Mr. Will apparently wants to repeal the 17th Amendment and return to state legislatures choosing Senators.thanks...well, that does make sense....more local control.
It was somewhat confusing....make it better; one in-state, one in D.C. & rotate 'em.
"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us. Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector
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posted on
02/22/2009 7:54:14 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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