... 17th amendment has got to go!
As I’ve said before, senators no longer represent their states to Washington, they represent Leviathan to the states, handing out either goodies or punishments as their whim and the political winds dictate. Their primary allegiance is not to the voters back “home” but to their cloakroom colleagues (hence the “bipartisanship” fetish that is particularly virulent in the Senate) on Capitol Hill, and to the Beltway parasites who feed off them.
Indeed, Lugar didn’t even live in Indiana. According to this story, he stayed in a hotel in Indianapolis, at taxpayer expense, whenever he deigned to visit:
The 17th amendment was enacted to keep state legislatures from colluding to appoint senators, so really, they swapped one evil for another. Get rid of it, and let the constitutional system work.
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Good riddance to Lugar, and concur!
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