Are you kidding? How could you possibly know who would be appointed? Crystal ball? Complete spurious speculation without an iota of proof?
It’s very easy to figure out if you pay close attention to the individual states, what party maintains the legislative majority and those in the power structure. Texas, for example, would be sending two RINOs to the Senate — Karl Rove (as a thank-you to Dubya, much in the same way that Ohio sent Mark Hanna as a thank-you to President McKinley) and David Dewhurst (as the sitting Lieutenant Governor, who pressured virtually the entire GOP caucus into endorsing him for the race over Ted Cruz — and thank heavens that the people and not the elitist politicians had final say over that race).
This is the reality of what a repeal would mean, and that doesn’t even begin to cover the rest of the states. Democrat states would send ultraleftist Stalinists and Republican states would send big government RINOs, each feeding at the trough trying to suck as much money as possible from the Feds (money that ain’t there). It would be a nightmare above and beyond anything currently there.
Your idea of giving away my vote to the Maryland state legislature, both houses heavily Dem, does nothing for me.
We have can have little or no idea how that would work out in the long run, and there is no guarantee that the GOP will hold on to the purple states that they have control of now in the next 10 years or so.
“The grass always looks greener on the other side”
The Senate sure looks like a bunch of rich elitist whores which is stirring these fantasies, but this is just a pipe dream going no-where, will never happen
And please refrain from the “It (having no 17th) worked great in 1800 so it would work great now too”. I am not one of Marks drones.
Krystal Ball is a commentator on MSNBC’s The Cycle.
I know BillyBoy didn't hear it from her.