I'll spill my guts anyway, it's what I do best.
With all do respect to the folks who take the time and write a comprehensive, well written diary, this one is just the opposite. It's stupid and spontaneous. I just had an idea and it's so unworkable and absurd that I'd find my own holes in a half hour tops. I wouldn't even need your input then....doesn't matter. Maybe I'd like your input just the same, being a little wicked as I am?
Now while the glow is warm and before I abandon the idea, here it is.
Article one of the Constitution outlining the power and makeup of Congress? Amend it. Sell three Senate seats to the highest bidders, making 103 total. Give each of the three, 2 year terms...and out.
Roving Senators, taking their seat two yrs before 3 unlucky incumbent's terms are up. Who could then run in their home states against that incumbent in that particular state, the old way, one vote at a time. Seats are for sale now anyway. Whatever rich s.o.b plunks down that much dough for an auctioned off seat is not going to worry about bringing home any pork, so unless I'm totally nuts, they'd probably be worrying more about the nations problems, and not their home states narrow interests. Maybe they'd do the two year stint and leave for good? So repeat, unless I'm completely gonzo, one state's most likely not going to have a 3 to 2 advantage concerning parochial issues. And if one state does get a little temporary heads up over some other state, so what? The countries all mixed up anyway. We'll try it my way for 20 years and then have another Constitutional Convention.
And what's more....so sorry, I'm not quite finished.....the 3 designated hitters are probably not going to vote partisan either. Why bother, they didn't just spend at least 50 million of their own bucks to be a toady. It would be about ideas, and pushing the 100 elected wishy washies we got now, to do the right thing back there behind the scenes, in what they call the "coatroom," if I'm not mistaken. The public would demand the best out of the 3 roving Senatorial Ambassadors of sorts.
Hey, the idea is so full of pitfalls, I'm scramming and not staying around for the comments afterwards like I'd usually do. Thanks for listening........