tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post5277258288136634021..comments2024-02-10T20:49:20.762-05:00Comments on bjkeefe: Ixnay on the Eventeenthsay!!!1!bjkeefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-32865174985274474482010-06-02T20:39:58.352-04:002010-06-02T20:39:58.352-04:00Huh, I dunno about "never." The one rat...Huh, I dunno about "never." The one rational explanation I can make for this push by the teabaggers is the following. If you realize that, apart maybe from presidential elections, the American electorate is generally apathetic about voting, and that midterms and primaries and elections for pretty much any office below the level of the presidency are decided by the most rabid of our citizenry, then you can imagine why the teabaggers want to go back to a system where the state legislatures pick the US Senators: because they take the long view, because they're motivated to do politics and nothing else, they are convinced that they can put into place a body of electors, as it were, that will in turn pick the candidate that they want. And fuck the other 80-95% of the population, even of that state.<br /><br />Therefore, though I make fun of the teabaggers at the superficial level of their wanting deals done in the proverbial smoke-filled back rooms after they have spent the last year plus howling about this very thing, my real fear is that this is exactly what they want.<br /><br />Remember that all successful revolutions and coups have been engineered, ultimately, by a few zealously committed people.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-11255336454207269752010-06-01T08:13:49.407-04:002010-06-01T08:13:49.407-04:00No smoke filled room would have ever put Rand Paul...No smoke filled room would have ever put Rand Paul in a position to be a senator either, I would think.<br /><br />They likely would want to repeal all amendments except the second. Especially get rid of the 22nd so that zombie Reagan could come back and defeat the usurper Obama.Kevin Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555818021469626619noreply@blogger.com