Over the last year or so, the evidence that the Tea Partiers' agenda can be pretty far out there has been overwhelming. What you may not have heard, however, is that this same far-right crowd is especially incensed about the existence of the 17th Amendment -- the constitutional provision that empowers the electorate to choose their own senators, rather than state legislatures doing it, as the Constitution originally mandated.....
...Around the country, Tea Party affiliates and some candidates have been pressing for repeal -- though there also has been a lot of hasty backtracking by politicians once the voters realized the implications. In Idaho, two candidates in last month's Republican primary for the First District House seat said they favored repeal, including the winner, Raul Labrador. Steve Stivers, the Republican candidate in an Ohio Congressional race, said he wanted to repeal the amendment, until his Democratic opponent, Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, made an issue of it, after which he seemed to back off....
When Steve Stivers embraced the Tea Party's goal to repeal the 17th Amendment, voters in central Ohio took notice. Why would Stivers want to take away our right to vote for our own U.S. Senators? Isn't that taking away our freedoms?>>>> If you haven't read Plunderbund yet, get over there immediately!
John "Lehman Brothers" Kasich still thinks that businesses should regulate themselves. Sounds crazy, doesn't it???