How We Know Russ Feingold's Constitutional Amendment Proposal Is A Good Idea

Because George Will is against it.  Feingold's proposal to assure that Senatorial vacancies are filled by popular election rather than appointment is here.

- Barry Orton

Comments

[Buckyblue]

Sensenbrenner is for it, it may have wheels.

[Jon]

The only argument George Will gives for preventing people from electing their Senator is that the framers didn't design it that way in the 1780s? He needs to go back to sitting on his porch yelling at kids to get off of his lawn.

We'd better be careful, or this neo-Aristocratic philosophy of Government might just catch on, and some newspaper could wage a campaign to take away the ability of "an uninformed electorate swollen by immigrants" to vote for their Judges. Nah, couldn't happen, only a hack fish-wrap would ever do that.

[Brian]

George Will has a voice in the mainstream media, not because arguments have any merit or are well written, but because he speaks for corporate power. Factually he's on another planet, and logically most of his views are ridiculous. He survives because our's is not an intellectual culture and he's protected from serious debate nearly every week on Stephonopolous (another guy who ain't too bright).

If Congress were a responsive body this would already be on its way through both bodies and to the states for ratification.

[james wigderson]

If Jim Sensenbrenner, the Waukesha Freeman, and I are all in agreement that it is a good idea, does that mean Feingold is wrong?

[LEO THOMET]

Feingold, excuse me but isn't he the one who doesn't understand the first amendment? Now just because Illinois is having a wee problem doing a fairly simple and straightforward thing(of course the pervasive culture of corruption there makes everything more difficult), the other states must lose more of their sovereignty. Will is right on the money here and the framers understood how a true bicameral legislature should work. Russ, keep your stinkin' mitts off my constitution.