[rabscuttle385]

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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[rabscuttle385]

It stipulates popular election of senators...

[fieldmarshaldj]

"It stipulates popular election of senators, under which system Wisconsin has elected, among others, Joe McCarthy,"

When Wisconsin sent PATRIOTS to DC.

[EternalVigilance]

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.

[Lurker]

It would be better to repeal it.

About every 15 or 20 columns Will gets something right. This is one of those time.

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[skinkinthegrass]

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

[Arizona Carolyn]

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.

[MissouriConservative]

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!!!!!

[BufordP]

Whatever McCain is for I'm AGAINST IT!

[jonascord]

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.

[TheBattman]

Feingold's Constitution:

[JSDude1]

The 17th Amendment says that when Senate vacancies occur, “the executive authority” of the affected state “shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: 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.”

How bout we just REPEAL it..

[Impy]

I don’t know if we should go to all the trouble of an amendment but I agree with Slimgold on this one. Punk ass governors shouldn’t get to hand out 2-year terms anymore.

Blago auctioned off a seat.

Frank Murkowsi appointed his baby girl to make up for not buying her that pony.

Roy Barnes put popular Zell Miller in a Republican seat creating the circumstances for the Jeffords switch.

Burris, Bennett and G(j)illibrand get 2 years in the Senate without having to be elected. All were chosen by a single man.