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Sorry, but the Tea Partiers really are crazy. They want to take away our right to vote for our Senators!
Why Repeal 17th Amendment?
They want our Senators to be appointed. Back room deals. Corruption. Great idea.
So several Republican candidates who are trying to get the Tea Party vote had had to walk back from supporting this stupid idea.
Tea Party-Backed Repeal Of The 17th Amendment Gets Republicans Into Trouble | TPMDC
Here's a little history about how the 17th amendment came about.
http://www.magicvalley.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_8910467b-72b6-5eb0-9df4-143af29432fe.html
And Mark Twain's words pertain to the Tea Party Republican candidates of today, in my opinion.
Why Repeal 17th Amendment?
They want our Senators to be appointed. Back room deals. Corruption. Great idea.
So several Republican candidates who are trying to get the Tea Party vote had had to walk back from supporting this stupid idea.
Tea Party-Backed Repeal Of The 17th Amendment Gets Republicans Into Trouble | TPMDC
Here's a little history about how the 17th amendment came about.
The amendment says voters get to decide who represents them in the Senate. Before its ratification in 1913, legislatures elected senators.
As you can imagine, the old system reeked of dealmaking, bribery and corruption.
The poster boy for reform was Montana’s William Clark, a copper-mining magnate who bought a Senate seat in 1899 by paying $2,500 to each legislator to vote for him. So egregious was the scheme that the Senate refused to seat him.
Here’s what Mark Twain had to say about Clark:
“He is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs.”
http://www.magicvalley.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_8910467b-72b6-5eb0-9df4-143af29432fe.html
And Mark Twain's words pertain to the Tea Party Republican candidates of today, in my opinion.
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