Courtesy of the Stakeholder (
http://blog.dccc.org)
Tom Delay and Zell Miller do not think you should vote for your Senator.
Sen. Zell Miller, the Georgia Democrat who has become increasingly disgusted with his party as well as the way the U.S. Senate has operated the past few years, figures it's time for a major shake-up in how senators are chosen.
This week, he proposed legislation to repeal the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which in 1913 removed the selection of senators from state legislatures, as the original Constitution called for, and gave it to the voters.
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The effect, he said, has been to create a legislative body responsive only to special interests.
"Make no mistake about it: It is the special-interest groups and their fund-raising power that elect U.S. senators and then hold them in bondage forever," he said.
His legislation comes less than a week after House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican, indicated that he, too, thought the 17th Amendment was a bad move.
"I am willing to have a debate that electing senators by popular vote has had a very real negative impact on this country," Mr. DeLay said last week during a debate over how the House should reconstitute itself after a catastrophic attack.
Ok, thats just the WTF moment of the day