Alaska Sen--Miller (R) comes out for repealing 17th amendment--wants politicians to select senators

[book_worm]

Miller often returned to the idea of restricting the federal government to only powers allowed by the Constitution.

He called the idea of a living, changing Constitution “bullcrap,” and said he would support an amendment for term limits as well as an amendment repealing the 17th Amendment, which allows for the direct election of senators by the public rather than by state legislatures

Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Alaska U S Senate candidate Joe Miller explains his positions at Fairbanks town hall meeting

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/9767411/article-Alaska-U-S--Senate-candidate-Joe-Miller-explains-his-positions-at-Fairbanks-town-hall-meeting?instance=home_lead_story

[louis-t]

1. Another attempt by crazy republickers to seize government.

Their dream of a permanent Republican majority. Hey, Joe, does the Constitution say "direct election by state legislatures"? Dumbass.

[Stuart G]

2. Scott McAdams is his opponent ..here is his link:

http://www.scottmcadams.org/home/

This Miller idiot has come out with some nutty ideas lately..
Perhaps Scott has a chance after all...

[mcollins]

3. ah- a purist constitutionalist.

We should bring back slavery too.

[joeybee12]

4. He says the federal government FORCED him to take the money he got as subsidies!

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

5. Why are right wingers hung up on the 17th amendment?

I don't understand it.

[Cosmocat]

12. See, Court, Supreme ...

they LOVE having intitutions where they can outfight weaker Ds in the clinches to get people into positions of power ... The Surpeme Court is their check mate on things ... They see this as another way to game the system to their advantage for purposes and agenda ...

See how the dems are slinky, scared of their shadow deer in the Senate with a larger majority than when the Ds had the majority? Remember the screams for an "up or down vote" on everything, only to have the use the filibuster to not allow passage of debate to up the vote to 60 for the last two years - with Harry Reid shaking like a deer in the background ...

This is their game ...

Elections are too risky ...

They like when we are stuck on the sidelines and it is inside baseball ...

[napi21]

6. He's just jumping on the Pub bandwago. Many of the other Pub

candidates want to do the same thing.

[Arkana]

14. Need 67 votes to get a Constitutional amendment.

Dems are scaredy-cats, but there's no way they're that stupid.

[pscot]

7. Elections are so messy

And sometimes the wrong people win.

[suston96]

8. Miller needs to study why the 17th Amend. happened....

It was really quite simple: Angry people in virtually every state demanded it and threatened to call a second constitutional convention. Almost 2/3 of the states had issued convention calls.

The reason the people were angered was because partisan politics in the state legislatures left senate seats unfilled while the legislators carried on with their partisan squabbling.

A constitutional convention was feared by Congress for obvious and historical reasons. The first constitutional convention, called to fix the Articles of Confederation, did no such thing, but went on to create a completely new government.

Fear of what a second convention could do, limits attached notwithstanding, prompted Congress to frame and pass an amendment and send it to the states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Very dangerous having people who know little or nothing about the constitution and its history demanding that it be changed to suit their political whims.

[struggle4progress]

9. Why do we have the 17th amendment? Because "politicians elect senators" sucked eggs, that's why

[COLGATE4]

10. I'm waiting for him to propose making African Americans 3/5

citizens. After all, let's be consistent.

[Blue_Tires]

11. funny how all these so-called freedom-loving constitutional scholars

want to cut out parts that don't suit them

[Arkana]

13. He realizes, of course, that without the 17th amendment he never would

have become the nominee.

[treestar]

15. Effin' lunatic

[LiberalFighter]

16. Isn't he against the government?

Yet, he wants the state legislature to decide their Senators?

[theothersnippywshrub]

17. If he wins he can repeal the 17th for Alaska by immediately resigning. n/t