Predictably, the liberal intelligentsia has responded with scorn. Of all the “goofy ideas from those lovable wacky Tea Partyers [sic],” John Aloysius Farrell writes atUSNews.com, this is the “stupidest.” Repeal talk is “truly regressive,” even “Paleolithic,” Timothy Egan seethes in Sunday’s New York Times.
Apparently, the only thing worse than peasants with pitchforks is peasants with pocket Constitutions. http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/repeal-17th-amendment
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With advent of the 17th ammendment they don't have to answer to the state government...they can do whatever they want if they think they can get away with it.