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| bigger government = smaller citizen  |
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes please. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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And have a recall/switch at any time, however your state would like to do it. However, if your state can't get it's shit together & have a Senator available to vote, you don't get a vote. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Well, it was that way until 1913 and the passing/adoption of the 17th Amendment. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
That was the way it was originally done! Until the 17th amendment! Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| bigger government = smaller citizen |
I pointed this out, and then I also pointed out how this would remove a ton of the national, corrupt, money involved in the Senate elections. JALLAN was quick to also point out, rightly, that one of the reasons cited for the need for the 17th, was corruption in the Senate selection process. I'd rather go back and try it without the 17th then rely on "scholars" of today to try and fix it. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Fair enough, but there's still no reason to think that it would do anything except shift the vectors of corruption - while taking power away from the voters in a state as a whole. There's no reason to seek out intermediaries to exercise your power, any more than there's any need to add extraneous overhead to the way you run your company. But hey - if it sounds like a magic wand, then, you know, maybe we'll find out magic actually exists!!! The truly pathetic part of the argument is that it mirrors the "logic" that has the liberals sweating over whether Ginsberg remains on the bench - her seniority, her logic, her persuasive powers, her mere presence will somehow magically keep the forces of conservatism at bay because no one would ever dare screw with her. Riiiiight. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
How long has it been since we've seen any proof that RBG is actually still alive? 3 or 4 weeks now? I smell a rat. Or is that a corpse? | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
 The "2019" shown in the graphic isn't over yet... "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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So what’s the latest on this broad? Has nobody still not seen or heard from her? | |||
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| Freethinker |
What happened to all the prognostications? She hasn’t resigned, or been declared dead, or turned into a pumpkin, or whatever else so many people were certain would have happened by now. I am so disappointed.  ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Political Cynic |
you and me both - perhaps she will kick off during the SOTU...if she even shows up for it [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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How would you know the difference? _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Well, we can see how well that worked out! Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
I guess the SOTU is back “on”.  | |||
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Too clever by half |
I'm not convinced they will tell us. Woodrow Wilson's wife ran the Presidency for years while he was debilitated by stroke. I smell a Weekend at Ruthie's coming. "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
If only we'd have had iPhones 100 years ago. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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 _____________________________________________ I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal. | |||
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Maybe that's why Nancy doesn't want to have the SOTU address. They don't want the empty seat while Ruthie's on ice. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
I saw a couple flags at half mast today. Is it bad if I wondered if we fly them thus if a SCJ dies? | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
This past Wednesday, there was a shooting in a SunTrust branch in Sebring. Five hostages killed. Governor DeSantis ordered flags flown at half mast. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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