Posted on 03/28/2017 5:19:25 AM PDT by drewh
The Senate loves to sit around talking about how they are "the worlds most exclusive club" and "the worlds greatest deliberative body" and BS like that. The fact is that since the 17A, the only difference in the Senate and the House is the size of the body.
The country could chit-can the Senate and we wouldn't be out a thing.
The 17th was a terrible amendment.
I’m surprised as can be that the states bought that. It was their only direct input into the federal government.
It was like having a national board of state assemblymen working for them up in Washington DC.
How was a House of Lords better?
‘course I’m not a politician, but I can’t see a big deal here. Change the rule, have the vote to confirm Gorsuch, then change the rule back.
Something wrong with this approach?
I’m surprised as can be that the states bought that. It was their only direct input into the federal government.
Yes. I do wonder, tho, if there couldn’t be a workaround . . . suppose that the state legislature limited the names on the ballot for senator to two candidates, and those two were nominated by the state’s legislators, each of whom would cast only one vote. Thus, the Republican legislators would nominate a senatorial candidate, and the Democrat legislators would nominate another.Thus, the state legislative majority could consider that it had nominated the state’s senator, subject to a veto by the state’s voting public. And I’m not even certain that a constitutional amendment would be necessary to allow that.
The 17th was pushed because the argument of the day was that state legislatures were all bought off by the railroads. Probably some truth to that! Professional politicians at any level tend to be “bought” by somebody!
Yes and what is sad is a non-biased media would say so and scold the democrats for it. BUT... They are joined at the hip and encourage each other to be more and more outrageous as time goes on.
I hope somewhere, somehow people—at least enough people—see that this is nothing but revenge and hurts the country.
Who knows, maybe by rejecting Judge Gorsuch the rest of the country will give the media and dems an earful that they’ve simply gone to far!
I’ve had major problems with McConnell over the years; however, he does have a good history of fighting hard to get Republican judges confirmed.
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