We can thank our Founding Fathers for such a thoroughly BRILLIANT system. The Governors languished in the shadow of Big Brother for decades, but the power of their position in our government was always there for the taking.
When Big Brother got absolutely intolerable, WTP elected Governors who would use their power to protect their citizens.
Yes, we will go through, as Krauthammer terms it, a period of “magnificent turmoil.” But the end result may be a smackdown of an out-of-control Federal Leviathan and a reemergence of strong states that offer Americans choices as to how free or how enslaved to government they want to be.
Episodes like this only amplify the mistake of taking appointment of Senators by the States and making them elective. This reducing the strength of federalism and makes it much harder for the true interests of the states be represented in the Congress.