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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

8 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.. :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Mr. Will apparently wants to repeal the 17th Amendment and return to state legislatures choosing Senators.


11 posted on 02/22/2009 7:41:42 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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