It is time
What do tea parties, expensive hair do's, fake tans, corny slogans, and millions upon millions of wasted dollars, indignant 10th amendment followers, majority party members who have a minority party governor and a freshly deceased majority party senator have in common?
Oh come on, we have discussed this before (and by discussed I mean Me brow beating you into submission to my ideas)
The answer of course is that we should repeal the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution.
States would regain their voice in the federal government.
candidates for the Senate would no longer need to pretend to care about those pesky constituents.
Senate elections would cost a tank of gas (or enough to get the candidate to the state capitol) I am intentionally leaving out the cost of bribes for the members of their state congress. But hey it would certainly cost less to bribe a hundred or so people as opposed to millions.
When a senator finally keels over and we have to pry the key to the Senators only private privy from his cold, dead fingers we can hold a special election to fill his slot. All it takes is the state congress convening a joint session and all those wanting to fill the slot get to spend an hour pleading their case. It would take a day maybe a week tops. Boom new senator (and no governor tempted to sell any #!#&%%!!! precious things.)
And while we're tweaking amendments we could slip in a 12 year max term limit: 2 terms in the senate, 6 in the house.
Oh come on, we have discussed this before (and by discussed I mean Me brow beating you into submission to my ideas)
The answer of course is that we should repeal the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution.
States would regain their voice in the federal government.
candidates for the Senate would no longer need to pretend to care about those pesky constituents.
Senate elections would cost a tank of gas (or enough to get the candidate to the state capitol) I am intentionally leaving out the cost of bribes for the members of their state congress. But hey it would certainly cost less to bribe a hundred or so people as opposed to millions.
When a senator finally keels over and we have to pry the key to the Senators only private privy from his cold, dead fingers we can hold a special election to fill his slot. All it takes is the state congress convening a joint session and all those wanting to fill the slot get to spend an hour pleading their case. It would take a day maybe a week tops. Boom new senator (and no governor tempted to sell any #!#&%%!!! precious things.)
And while we're tweaking amendments we could slip in a 12 year max term limit: 2 terms in the senate, 6 in the house.
posted by The petulant ninny at 7:57 AM
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