Sunday, May 16, 2010

Tea party calls to repeal the 17th Amendment – Republican conflicts of interest

Tea Party-Backed Repeal Of The 17th Amendment Gets Republicans Into Trouble

… a bridge too far for Republican candidates desperate to steal some of the movement's mojo. In the past couple weeks, at least two mainstream Republican candidates have found themselves walking back from pledges to support repealing the amendment, suggesting there's a limit to how much support the tea parties can provide.

The "Repeal The 17th" movement is a vocal part of the overall tea party structure. Supporters of the plan say that ending the public vote for Senators would give the states more power to protect their own interests in Washington (and of course, give all of us "more liberty" in the process.) As their process of "vetting" candidates, some tea party groups have required candidates to weigh in on the idea of repeal in questionnaires. And that's where the trouble starts.

So you think they are on to something?

Perhaps … how could you vote as a block for a national party if each state elected senators based on state expectations rather than party expectations?

This is an interesting twist. Is this tea party call an idea whose time has come? What sort of senator would a state drowning in debt and worker unemployment send to D.C. to be wooed by corporate opposition to wage and labor reform?

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