tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post8164585092566226957..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Blagojevich Appointment Spurs Call To Amend ConstitutionAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-33165106112363880662009-08-23T17:55:56.870-04:002009-08-23T17:55:56.870-04:00I know that you guys don't endorse, but I will...I know that you guys don't endorse, but I will not support another Clinton or Bush because I want nothing to do with dynasties.MegaTrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03234420338804013858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-83154817062032549922009-08-23T01:00:31.157-04:002009-08-23T01:00:31.157-04:00StanH: In his current physical condition, Kennedy...StanH: In his current physical condition, Kennedy is just pitiable. But he has done so much damage to the nation, that I find it hard to have much Christian charity towards him.<br /><br />I hope you're right about the nation becoming sufficiently conservative some day such that we can stop dealing on a daily basis with crises created by the liberals and pay attention to regaining the concept of federalism laid down by the Founders. I am just afraid that the concept of direct democracy has become so deeply ingrained in the American psyche that the best we can do is keep it from expanding any farther. As William F. Buckley put it, "standing athwart history yelling 'stop!'"LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-26236618108863912212009-08-22T23:20:44.762-04:002009-08-22T23:20:44.762-04:00Well Lawhawk, a story that can only be told using ...Well Lawhawk, a story that can only be told using politicians for players. The 17th amendment needs to be repealed, and as you say would never happen, unless we the people force it to happen. In this current struggle for our republic in see seismic changes coming to Washington, and maybe, just maybe in two or three election cycles some sanity can be restored to Washington. Kennedy …yuk! What a complete a$$, I see it as a treat that he’s getting snared in his own trap.StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-53019943292321025312009-08-22T19:10:00.039-04:002009-08-22T19:10:00.039-04:00Andrew: I'm feeling a very small amount of op...Andrew: I'm feeling a very small amount of optimism about dynasties. One reason that I believe Hillary Clinton may have lost the nomination is that she was part of the Bush/Clinton/Bush/ Clinton continuum. It was starting to look like the War of the Roses, with no Shakespeare to write about it. <br /><br />I also think it contributed to the highly-popular and very competent Jed Bush staying out of the picture. The Roosevelts are now utterly insignificant in politics, and seemed to follow the same path as the Kennedys. I'm not doing backflips over this seeming trend, but there is (shall I say it?) hope.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-48400902951743682922009-08-22T18:28:17.127-04:002009-08-22T18:28:17.127-04:00Skinner, LOL! I agree with you about the Kennedys...Skinner, LOL! I agree with you about the Kennedys. They're like a plague of rats or something that try to spread out across our electoral landscape.<br /><br />I am not a fan of dynasties, or of a permanent political class, or of seats being passed from father to son, etc. I firmly believe in term limits to keep our government fresh and to keep the corrupt from taking root.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-58101851073520716752009-08-22T18:14:12.521-04:002009-08-22T18:14:12.521-04:00Skinners2Cents: I think the Kennedys will continu...Skinners2Cents: I think the Kennedys will continue to decline. They're back-benchers who have done enough damage even in the House. But if they'll buy Ted as hero, who knows what they'll do if Teddy gets his bill through and they find some Kennedy clansman in Massachusetts to replace him? Remember, even Papa Joe didn't see much of a future for Teddy.<br /><br />The Founders fully intended the votes of each state to be winner-take-all, although they didn't think of it in those exact terms. They just assumed that the candidate getting the majority in the state would get all the electoral votes the state was entitled to. Parties were a concept which they didn't like, and didn't want. They saw only candidates and states. The House got individuals acting on the national behalf, while the States elected the President and appointed the Senators. Balance, balance, balance. <br /><br />The only grudging nod the early Constitutionalists gave to parties (which they called "factions") was the Twelfth Amendment (1804) which changed how the votes for President and Vice President were tallied. But it never actually said that the President and Vice President had to be from the same party (though that was nearly inevitable) once the first and second place vote-getters becoming the President and Vice President respectively was altered to its present form. But respecting the sovereignty of the several States, the Founders left it up to the states from the beginning to determine how their electoral votes would be cumulated.<br /><br />Even with that revision, the early Constitutionalists gave considerable deference to the sovereignty of the states. They didn't want any one state dominating the national scene, so beside making the provisions for how the President was elected, they also added the stricture that the President and the Vice President could not be from the same state. And in case of a candidate not getting a majority in the Electoral College, the election went to the House--but not democratically. They still wanted the states, not the majority of voters, to have the ultimate power. So each state delegation in the House was given only one vote (in other words, one state, one vote).LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-84329393738306152622009-08-22T17:34:19.997-04:002009-08-22T17:34:19.997-04:00Great Article on Americas disturbing nobility.
I&...Great Article on Americas disturbing nobility.<br /><br />I've often wondered how long it would be before we would see an end to the Kennedy legacy, if one can call it that.<br /><br />This will sound terrible but I don't think that they can die fast enough. <br /><br />I thought this nightmare was going to last a little bit longer when Maria threw her name in the hat to become the senator of NY. The Kennedy's are so used to getting their way that she was stunned to find out people had had enough of them.<br /><br />I was yelling at the TV when I heard about it. "NO MORE KENNEDY'S OR ANY OF THEIR DAMN CHILDREN."<br /><br />I would like to hear your take on the electoral college. Did the founders actually want a winner take all system? Or have we just become numb to the extent Gerrymandering has gotten to?Skinners 2 Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06637561284569976324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-91383956492180905712009-08-22T17:15:36.316-04:002009-08-22T17:15:36.316-04:00Andrew: That might just be the perfect eternity f...Andrew: That might just be the perfect eternity for them. No percs, and having to listen forever to each other's boring speeches.<br /><br />WriterX: I assume it's ghost-written since he hasn't done his own work ever, including his cheating at Harvard. Will they be putting it on the fiction shelves?LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-36271958412825061492009-08-22T16:27:27.994-04:002009-08-22T16:27:27.994-04:00And let's not forget his autobiography (receiv...And let's not forget his autobiography (received a seven-figure advance for it) it coming out next month, I believe. I wouldn't even use it as a doorstop.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-47310616586159819472009-08-22T16:05:57.101-04:002009-08-22T16:05:57.101-04:00Lawhawk, I'm betting the afterlife for Senator...Lawhawk, I'm betting the afterlife for Senators looks a lot like the Senate, only without the perks.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-91940117049303911852009-08-22T14:15:42.800-04:002009-08-22T14:15:42.800-04:00Pittsburgh Enigma: I do watch the news on the bro...Pittsburgh Enigma: I do watch the news on the broadcast channels just to see what they're saying about us. I have seen exactly one comment in two days about the Kennedy switcheroo, and it was favorable.<br /><br />As for the Seventeenth Amendment, the chances of it being repealed are somewhere between zero and none. Nobody teaches the republican form of government anymore, and two generations think that direct election of Senators is somewhere in there with the Bill of Rights. Direct democracy, that totally-failed and impossible form of government has been hammered into people's minds for so long that the concept of a built-in restraint on the will of temporary majorities entirely eludes the vast majority of Americans.<br /><br />My worst fear is that the last vestige of a republican form of government has been under continuous attack for seventy-five years, and is once again being attacked in Congress. The Electoral College stands as the last powerful bastion against direct democracy and in favor of State sovereignty. But ask any allegedly educated person today about the Electoral College, and he will tell you it's "anti-democratic" and the candidate with the largest number of votes nationwide should always win. Several states have already amended their rules for casting their own state's electoral votes so that it is quite possible that even if a candidate wins the most votes in that state, the state's electoral votes go either entirely or proportionally to the other candidate. To his credit, Ahnuld Schwarzenegger recently vetoed such a bill in California.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-19995420294506083842009-08-22T14:00:32.297-04:002009-08-22T14:00:32.297-04:00Andrew: I'm picturing Ted Kennedy in the afte...Andrew: I'm picturing Ted Kennedy in the afterlife, sitting on a chair at the compound, looking out to sea, and seeing nothing but thousands and thousands of wind turbines.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15202401452875747532009-08-22T13:53:34.048-04:002009-08-22T13:53:34.048-04:00"Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick)"... good..."Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick)"... good one! :-D<br /><br />Yeah, the Kennedy thing really made me angry. Has this even been covered in the mainstream media? It's been so long since I've actually watched, read or heard the MSM.<br /><br />And I look forward to an article on the 17th amendment. Do you think there's any chance of it ever being overturned? I'm afraid the average American might not appreciate what it means to move closer back to a Republic again.Pittsburgh Enigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06452716444698202766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-86080879308347470282009-08-22T13:48:12.017-04:002009-08-22T13:48:12.017-04:00WriterX: I couldn't agree more. They've ...WriterX: I couldn't agree more. They've given a drunken, womanizing, Harvard-cheating, leftist the appellation "The Lion of the Senate." <br /><br />To paraphrase Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings--"Have you no sense of decency, Senators, at long last? Have you no decency?" Even without the death-by-drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne, Kennedy would have been a mere footnote in history without the family name and money.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-45710448021691826822009-08-22T13:40:10.370-04:002009-08-22T13:40:10.370-04:00Nice article Lawhawk, I had the same thoughts head...Nice article Lawhawk, I had the same thoughts heading across country. Well done.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-22099470556430403372009-08-22T10:54:16.331-04:002009-08-22T10:54:16.331-04:00I'm so glad you wrote about this, LawHawk. Thi...I'm so glad you wrote about this, LawHawk. This Kennedy flip-flop has been a heated topic of discussion among my friends lately. At least Kennedy doesn't make apologies for being a hypocrite. Yet, the media, his fans, even his state, always paint him like he's some kind of hero. I don't get it. Never have. I think he's one of the biggest criminals in the Senate. He should have been serving the last 40 years in a prison cell.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.com