Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
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Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
Neal Boortz
November 2, 2010
Well what do you know? Did some of the Tea Partiers get their hands on my 2007 New York Times bestseller "Somebody's Gotta Say It!"? The final chapter of that book is titled "No Way in Hell" and it addresses the few moonbats out there who have suggested that I might want to run for president someday.
Refer again, if you would, to the chapter title. I did, though, set forth my leadership agenda were that impossibility ever to occur.
Here is what you will find on page 298:
This morning we're getting some news stories that Tea Party activists are starting to push for repeal of the 17th Amendment. Gotta love it.
Neal Boortz
November 2, 2010
Well what do you know? Did some of the Tea Partiers get their hands on my 2007 New York Times bestseller "Somebody's Gotta Say It!"? The final chapter of that book is titled "No Way in Hell" and it addresses the few moonbats out there who have suggested that I might want to run for president someday.
Refer again, if you would, to the chapter title. I did, though, set forth my leadership agenda were that impossibility ever to occur.
Here is what you will find on page 298:
REPEAL THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT
Very few Americans realize this (quiz your children!), but we didn't always vote for our U.S. senators.
Under our Constitution as originally ratified, senators were appointed by the state legislatures. The idea was that the members of the House of Representatives would represent the people of the United States, and the senators would represent the interests of the state governments.
In 1913 the Seventeenth Amendment changed all that. From that point on, senators were elected by the people.
Things have been pretty much going downhill ever since.
The principal problem with the Seventeenth Amendment is that it leaves the fifty states with no official representation in Washington. If the nation of Angola has some sort of a beef with our national government, it has an official representative--the ambassador from Angola--to meet with our State Department officials and smooth things over. If the state of Arkansas has a problem with Washington -- a huge unfunded mandate, for instance--there's no "Ambassador from Arkansas" to make the point. The Arkansas senators are elected by the people, as are the members of the House; the state government has no specific representative to take up its case.
Our Founding Fathers clearly felt that most governance should be at the local level. Today, we've failed at that goal. With no official representation inside the Beltway, the state governments have no real ability to help restrain the flow of government power from the local to the national level.
The repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment would help correct this imbalance, vastly strengthening the state governments' hand in Washington. In that sense power would begin to shift from the federal level to the state level, bringing us closer to the system of semi-sovereign states that was envisioned by our founders.
Before he left public office, Senator Zell Miller of Georgia actually introduced a resolution calling for a Constitutional amendment repealing the Seventeenth. Smart man.
This morning we're getting some news stories that Tea Party activists are starting to push for repeal of the 17th Amendment. Gotta love it.
TexasBlue
Re: Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
That would be fantastic! It is exactly as Boortz notes, popular election of US Senators robs our States of any representation in Washington.
dblboggie
Re: Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
dblboggie wrote:That would be fantastic! It is exactly as Boortz notes, popular election of US Senators robs our States of any representation in Washington.
I had an argument with someone Next Door about this. He went on about how people wouldn't be represented if the Senate were done as it was intended to regarding elections. I tried to explain that he already had representation. Couldn't get it thru his head. It's so simple that anyone should be able to understand it.
TexasBlue
Re: Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
See, this is the problem with the electorate at large. Far too many are completely ignorant about our form of government and how it works.
Who did this brain-trust think he was voting for when he voted for his US REPRESENTATIVE?!?!
Who did this brain-trust think he was voting for when he voted for his US REPRESENTATIVE?!?!
dblboggie
Re: Repeal The 17th Amendment... New Tea Party Goal?
dblboggie wrote:See, this is the problem with the electorate at large. Far too many are completely ignorant about our form of government and how it works.
Who did this brain-trust think he was voting for when he voted for his US REPRESENTATIVE?!?!
I don't know. I didn't get his mindset. I wish I could remember who it was.
TexasBlue
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