Firewall with Bill Whittle: Give Back the Senate!
Back in 2009 I wrote a post, which I tweaked slightly and reposted here, entitled ‘Is America too Big?’ In that post I wrote about what I thought was a controversial issue because at that time I had not heard anyone talking about how the 17th amendment to the Constitution perhaps did more to turn America from a republic into a democracy, and I stated I felt we would have been better off if the 17th amendment had never been ratified.
Since that time I have learned that this is not the novel idea I thought it was and I have found that there are many average Americans who understand how the country was supposed to function who feel the same way as I do.
There are now some more prominent and influential people talking about this as well: Mark Levin is one and now, with his latest Firewall video entitled ‘Give Back the Senate’ Bill Whittle has joined the fray.
In this video Mr. Whittle makes some of the exact points I was trying to make, including using two of the same states as examples as I did, albeit a hell of a lot better than I could possibly do.
I like to think Mark Levin and Bill Whittle read that post…hey, I can dream right?
This is another must watch and his take on the 18th amendment and its repeal made me laugh out loud.
“Anything that is not forbidden is mandatory.”
Enjoy:
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It’s something I’ve wondered about a lot.
The only criticisms I’ve found of the original system were that some states didn’t always agree on their senators and went unrepresented for periods of time. That is the state governments were unrepresented. The people of the state were still represented in the House of Representatives. There was nothing preventing representation on the Federal level, it’s just an early example of political gridlock at the state level.
The only real question I have is that with governors having 4 year terms and senators having 6 year terms, I can see the state governments not always having full control of their senators.
I agree that it’s well passed time to reduce the power of the federal government.
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I did not know that there were cases of gridlock which prevented some states from sending Senators to represent them, thanks for informing me, it seems as if there is no perfect solution.
You brought up the issue of governors serving four year terms and that is true in most cases. I believe 48 states have four year terms for governors. Here in New Hampshire the governor’s term is only two years and I believe it is the same in Vermont. I love the way this works in New Hampshire because if the voters determine they made a mistake they can quickly correct it, I think more states should take this road. The detractors say a two year term does not give a governor enough time to prove they belong there but I disagree, it should be evident early on.
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So the governor has to be reconfirmed every two years. It could be a lot worse. One of the things I’ve watched happen in California is the gerrymandering of the state to give the Dems a lifetime lock. There’s not much chance of that changing anytime soon.
In this last election, when Janice Hahn(D) was elected to the House of Representatives, she ran essentially unopposed. There was no Republican candidate on the ballot, only one Libertarian candidate no one ever heard of. Hahn has a very safe district.
The gridlock problem can also be considered as people too dumb to get it together for their own good. What I found had more to do with how some states defined their procedures for selecting Senators than anything else. Most states never had a problem.
Right now, it looks a lot better than what we’ve got.
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Thank you.
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