GOP Wants To Repeal The 17th Amendment

[Andara Bledin]

Because of that, I think it encourages more legislation written by people that shouldn't be writing legislation.

This makes the assumption that our legislation is written by our legislators, and this is the case less and less the higher up the political ladder you climb.

[HYHYBT]

This makes the assumption that our legislation is written by our legislators, and this is the case less and less the higher up the political ladder you climb.

...a problem only made worse by forcing out those who've been there the longest.

[s_stabeler]

...a problem only made worse by forcing out those who've been there the longest.

not necessarily, actually-remember that Congressmen tend to get a LOT of their information from lobbyists. The longer they have been in Congress, the more of their knowledge comes from lobbyists, not the general public.

[mikoyan29]

Why does it seem like the Republicans are trying to be more undemocratic lately? I can appreciate the original function for the Senate but still. If Senators were appointed, the Republican majority in the Senate would probably be 70-30 or thereabouts (if I am remembering the number of Republican governors out there).

Apparently they are also floating the idea here, that the votes should be based on the Congressional districts. For instance, 2012, Obama won the popular vote in Michigan but had they used the formula they are putting forward, Mitt Romney still would have gotten more electoral votes for here because of some of the district gyrations.

[lordlundar]

Because the Republicans don't want to be democratic. They haven't wanted that since Nixon. They want control of all three branches of the government to turn it into their ideal country which is a combination of Regan propaganda and Norman Rockwell imagery. The problem is the country is (albeit slowly) getting more progressive and the GOP more regressive making it less and less likely they'll attain that goal. They can't get the power they want legitimately so they'll game the system to pull it off otherwise. "By hook or by crook" as the saying goes.

[crashhelmet]

He wasn't aiming to "try for a third term". One of the tapes (recently revealed in the Discovery Channel Documentary "All the President's Men Revisited") was of him ordering the CIA to engage in political attacks against his opponents and if necessary physical attacks. Had Watergate not gone down Nixon's overall plan was to be "president for life" long before his second term was to finish. At the very least by then he was determined to be the only candidate running by that time because no one would run against him.

A lot of Americans have no idea just how close they were to duplicating what happened in Germany between the wars. Just instead of being fueled by fear of the Jews, it was fear of the Soviets.

Was their source Alan Moore and Watchmen?

[lordlundar]

Was their source Alan Moore and Watchmen?

Try the particular tape itself, released only to the documentary makers for the video.