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Keyes wants legislators, not you, to pick senators
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| 8/13/04
| John Patterson
Posted on 08/13/2004 11:22:59 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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Obviously this isn't at the top of his agenda. But it makes him look bad, which is enough justification for demagogic story.
Too bad the writer didn't feel compelled to write a piece about Keyes' opponents support for infanticide, a slightly more pressing issue.
To: Aquinasfan
I should have voted for him for President.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:24:06 AM PDT
by
snopercod
(Has anybody noticed that Iraq is using Saddam's "God is Great" flag again?)
To: snopercod
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:25:29 AM PDT
by
Lurker
( Rope, tree, liberal. Adult assembly required.)
To: snopercod
And I intend to vote for him as my Senator.
L
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:25:50 AM PDT
by
Lurker
( Rope, tree, liberal. Adult assembly required.)
To: snopercod
Hindsight being 20/20 a lot of folks should have.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:26:11 AM PDT
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
To: Aquinasfan
The founding fathers did indeed set things up for the congressman to choose the senators. That might have been a good idea then, today, I don't think so.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:26:55 AM PDT
by
Wiser now
(A bitter, sour old woman is the crowning work of the devil.)
To: Aquinasfan
I think it should be repealed also, so what is the problem?
The states have lost to much power and that can be attributed to the the 17th amendment.
So another reason to vote for him
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:27:05 AM PDT
by
dts32041
(Why has John "Fning" Kerry accused me of being a War Criminal? Viet Nam APR 70- NOV 71)
To: Aquinasfan
Obviously this isn't at the top of his agenda. Regardless, there would be 99 other senators that would laugh him out of the Capitol if he proposed it.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:27:41 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: dts32041
Can he do something about the 16th amendment while he is at it?
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:27:54 AM PDT
by
dts32041
(Why has John "Fning" Kerry accused me of being a War Criminal? Viet Nam APR 70- NOV 71)
To: Aquinasfan
If Keyes wants to win an election of the general population, he will have to learn to stay on target.
Somehow I don't think that this issue is on the top ten things that people are thinking about.
To: Aquinasfan
Keyes, a Maryland Republican who just moved to Calumet City for the campaign, supports returning to a system abolished nearly a century ago of letting state legislators pick U.S. senators rather than voters. Note that change corresponds with the beginning of the decline of the Republic.
To: Aquinasfan
Before approval of the 17th Amendment in 1913, state lawmakers picked their U.S. senators. The amendment moved that power to the people. Illinois supported the switch. With the direct election of Senators, the states lost all power to limit the Federal Govt.
It is the primary cause of the disintigration of federalism.
Repeal of the ammendment would be a powerful step in getting the government back under control.
So9
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:28:36 AM PDT
by
Servant of the 9
(Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
To: Wiser now
The founding fathers set it up right. The 17th should be repealed.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:29:08 AM PDT
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
To: Aquinasfan
the fact is, that's the way the constitution as originaly written, the states power was robbed by people who were uneducated about how our government works.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:29:18 AM PDT
by
The Wizard
(DemonRATS: enemies of America)
To: Aquinasfan
He described it as an issue befitting debate in "the hallowed halls of academia" or a "PBS special."Bwa ha ha. Now Keyes doesn't want to discuss his own beliefs during the election for the very seat at issue...
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:29:19 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: Aquinasfan
i agree with him. look what the'people' gave us hillary
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:29:36 AM PDT
by
camas
To: snopercod
with any luck, Alan will be able to explain to the dumber amoung us why this would be good.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:30:29 AM PDT
by
The Wizard
(DemonRATS: enemies of America)
To: dts32041
I think it should be repealed also, so what is the problem? There isn't any problem with his position, per se. The problem is that the issue is so easy to demagogue, and so relatively unimportant compared to other public policy issues, that Keyes has prudently chosen not to pursue the issue.
The reporter's motivation, however, is crystal clear to me.
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:30:59 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Repairman Jack
I smell ZOT...
Note that change corresponds with the beginning of the decline of the Republic.
No you idiot, it would be going back to the way the Republic was supposed to run...
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posted on
08/13/2004 11:31:12 AM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(I am not late for Zots, I have stealth Zot capability.....)
To: Repairman Jack
I, for one, wouldn't have a problem with going back to doing things that way.
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