A great New Year's resolution: Henry Lamb cheers on movement to repeal 17th Amendment

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 1-1-2011 | Henry Lamb

[JohnHuang2]

In hopes of returning to a previous, "better" condition, millions of Americans will resolve to: quit smoking, lose weight, or engage in some other activity to make their life better in some way. Suppose there were an activity in which Americans could engage that would make the entire world better, especially that portion of the world we call the United States of America. There is!

We can resolve to restore the original, unique republic created by our founders.

George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison and the handful of other great Americans who assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 used nearly half of the Convention time debating the single issue of representation in the new government. Shall the new government be a government of the states, or a government of the people?

[Impy]

I think your side is the one with the knee-jerk reactions on this issue.

Someone says “A REPUBLIC AND NOT A DEMOCRACY” and everyone goes hog wild with approval.

Those of us who has examined this issue realistically have concluded it would be a disaster to have State Legislators appoint Senators.

People in many states have made piss poor choices of Senators. Career politicians in State Legislatures would make even worse choices. Expecting them to choose wisely is dangerous naive. They are full of rats and RINOS and yes even corrupt “conservatives”. You don’t make things better by giving politicians MORE power.

[GOPsterinMA]

RE: Chicago mayor's race: I feel your pain. Isn't it great to have such a fantastic selection of candidates to choose from? Honestly, it makes me look at scums like the Castros in a newer, better light.

Anyone who wants to change the 17th truly has their head up their ass, period. See my above post as to why giving most pols MORE power is a worse idea than naming LiLo the designated driver on New Year's Eve.

Why is it when I see glance upon Big Sis I think of tuna tacos?

[monkeyshine]

The influence of national political parties would be diminished, local influences would be strengthened, and Senators would be beholden to the will of the state legislatures instead of the will of Presidents and party hacks. I have given it thought over the years and prefer the original method of appointing Senators.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I prefer a lot of things the Founders wanted, but the practice and results sometimes differs from the original intentions. I 100% support the 17th, and I have also given years of thought (and research of every single individual to have been elected to Congress) to it. It would be nice to have the Clays, Calhouns and the like, but we’d end up with big government RINOs and the same corrupt Democrat thugs with little to fear from ever being removed by the state legislatures. In other words, if we got even 1 statesman out of the deal, we’d be lucky. I don’t think we’d get even that.