Today's Political Commentary

Shooting From The Hip...


The funny thing to me this January is how the 17th amendment, which provided for the popular election rather than appointment of the Senators, and which effectively took away the direct representation of the interests of the sovereign individual "States United" before the Imperial Federal Government of the "United States"--is playing out as coming back into fashion.

In spite of the will of the people, Minnesota is putting that ignorant idiot asshole Al Franken into office as their Senator over incumbent Norm Coleman after conducting what at best could be considered a Circus of a recount involving psychics and Ouija Boards and ballots appearing in the back seats of election officials automobiles....

And Illinois has seen fit to allow their little asshole Governor (and soon to be Federal Prison Inmate) who appears to have a toupee on top of his toupee appoint the "Negro du jour" to fill Obamarama's vacated seat...

And Dick "Turbin" Durbin gets to play the unlikely role of George Wallace in the current drama except instead of the doors of the University of Alabama he's blocking the doors to the entrance to the US Senate...

And in the end I still have the presence of mind to fall back on the idea that was vacated with the ratification of the 17th Amendment.

According to the US Constitution as it was originally written, the Senate is supposed to represent the State Governments, not the people of the states directly, and therefor I guess I have to concede that in spite of my disdain for the individuals involved in the current process I say that we're actually seeing how bastardized and convoluted the selection of Senators could have been prior to 1913.

The only difference is that back then the states' Legislatures did the picking as a group, rather than leaving the result to people not qualified to pick their own noses as they are doing it today.

Dammit...