[sicandtired]

As smart and foresighted as our forefathers were, they just couldn't envision how corrupt and evil our political class would become. Maybe they figured that we would've hung or shot a few of them before things got this bad. I don't know that our forefathers could have foreseen a professional political or bureaucratic unaccountable class. We are truly being screwed by the uni-party.

[Political Junkie Too]

I blame it on the 17th amendment.

As corrupt as the state legislatures may have been during Reconstruction, giving up the power to replace Senators is what led to the current state of the power of incumbency in Senatorial elections.

We can't get rid of them now. They have become disconnected from the states they supposedly "represent."

-PJ