First off, I have a website (Thanks Christy!) showing how great of an idea iti s to attack George W. Bush on his economic policies. You can view that here.
The other item I have for you today is my Senator, Senator Zell Miller (D) from Georgia (who happens to be my single favorite guy in the US Government for various reasons) propsoe yesterday, the repealing of the 17th amendment. For those of you who do't know, that is the amendment allowing for the direct election of Senators and one of the single worst things to ever happen tot his country.
The founding fathers intended for the Senate to represent the interests of the Staets, rather than the people. This was to serve as a check on the power of the federal government and it is fort his reason that the senate approves treaties and judges: to prevent a hijacking of states' rights.
A repeal of this amendment would rid the Senate of the mindset that they answer to the people and campaign contributors - they would answer to the state legislatures. This would check the federal government's power and could lead to a return to the founder's wishes of 90% of peacetime government being at the state and local levels. If it had never been in place, history would definitely be read differently.
As it stands now however, this has no chance of passing the House and Senate much less a popular vote unless you call your representative and senator.
Posted by Skywalker at April 29, 2004 10:38 PM | TrackBackVery nice!
Posted by: cwilli at April 29, 2004 10:44 PMLOL
5 months of stall in the stock markets. Prepare for a down right fall.
I feel more confident than ever that I will get the 50 dollars from Muddy in 2007. (though in the mean time the dollar may have fallen 50% ...)
By the way. For once I agree with you Skywalker it is good in a federation to have representants of the federated entities. In europe we have the opposite problem, no real representants of the people at the federation level. All we have instead is representants of the executives of the member states who agree to pass all the unpopular measures at the federal level and say it's not them, it's the federation (though they voted for it)...
Posted by: DF at May 7, 2004 07:31 AM