[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

An interesting proposition, although I do not agree with it.

[Lurker]

Repealing the 17th is the answer.

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[Artcore]

Um yeah...this will happen. Sheesh.

[SeeSharp]

Or... we could just repeal the 17th.

[ClearCase_guy]

“We had to burn the village to save it.”

[17th Miss Regt]

An idiotic proposition that the author tries to justify by pointing to things that are not working as they should, so we should just get rid of the whole thing. No, the founding fathers were fools that just did not consider what might happen in the future, so we should ignore them. Oh, and excorciate them as slave holders.

[Vigilanteman]

It is an interesting proposal. Bicknell is probably right that repeal of the 17th amendment could not happen, but is he proposing that the House can impeach the president on a simple majority vote?

[DaBeerfreak]

Give control of the Senate back to the States.
Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment.

[dp0622]

The original constitutional purpose of the Senate — to represent the states, not the people who live in them...

Dont understand this.

Is it liberal jargon or is there something to it?

[hanamizu]

Abolishing the Senate would require more than a mere amendment. It would require a new Constitution. Article V (which sets the rules for amendments) states that the state’s cannot be deprived of their equal representation in the Senate. Of course a new constitution could get rid of all kinds of problems like term limits for beloved presidents and that pesky 2nd amendment.

[themidnightskulker]

Yep. Lets ask the Jedi how this one works out.

[little jeremiah]

Go back to Senators being picked by State Legislatures.

[generally]

The reason the WaComPost is concerned about this now is because they are worried that Trump will be elected. As long as the President is a Democrat, they see no need to rein them in.

Wasn’t it just a while back when the Democrats and the media, led by 0vomit, were saying that things would work better if he could just be a dictator? My, what short memories those Democrats have!

[Celerity]

Did the Washington Post just give Calvin Coolidge credit for something ?

And not “for starting the depression” ?

Wow. Did the editor, named Screwtape, take the day off ?

[qaz123]

Let the Senators come from the State legislatures, like they were intended to do.
If you think about it, there are at least 30 solid RED states, if not more and they tend to be pretty Conservative at that. Thats at least 60+ Republicans in the Senate. Throw in a couple from the PURPLE states where the legislatures will each get a pick and I think it’d be pretty close to veto proof.

But let’s not worry about that. It’s more fun and profitable to keep doing what they’ve been doing. It’s the definition of insanity.

[DoughtyOne]

If you can't destroy the nation one way, look for a new way...

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[Political Junkie Too]

In the short term, just get rid of Reid and McConnell. Their sell-by dates have long ago expired.

We need new blood, new thinking, and to throw out the old grudges and animosities.

-PJ

[luvie]

Just when we thought this election cycle couldn’t get any more bizarre....

[Cubs Fan]

Funny they’ve only noticed just now, when Obama is leaving, and its possible that trump could become president, that the executive branch can abuse its power through imperial edicts, er, I mean “executive actions”

How conveeeeenient.

[Arthur McGowan]

Coolidge was the best man to be President and the best President in U.S. history. Reagan is #2.

If Trump wins World War III, which is taking place now, with the U.S. government on the wrong side, he will be a greater President than Reagan. His task is unprecedented.

First: He must wake half the American people up to the fact that we are under attack.

Second: He must awaken the American people to the fact that the last four Presidents have been traitors. (Never mind for the time being the treasons of Johnson, Ford, and Carter.)

Third: He must wake the American people up to the seizure of virtually all institutions by Marxists—the Papacy, the clergy, the universities, the federal and state governments, the courts, the Democrat party, the GOPe, the media, the big foundations.

Fourth: He must mobilize the country to imprison and execute traitors, expel the vast army of Muslim invaders, deport the army of illegal aliens, etc.

Then, fighting the war begins.

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Senator Robert Bird belonged to the KKK.