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Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry earlier this week supported a resolution that would repeal the 17th Amendment and strip American voters of their right to elect U.S. Senators.
The joint resolution, introduced by Texas Congressman Keith Self, aims to “restore the Founders’ original vision for the United States” and return the selection of senators to state legislatures.
“Our Founding Fathers designed the Senate to protect state sovereignty and act as a check on federal overreach. If senators are supposed to represent their states, then the states should choose them. Repealing the 17th Amendment will restore that constitutional balance and make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas and every other state in the union,” Self said.
It cracks me up that the cons have been able to paint liberals as being “elitist” based on aspiring to be better educated (see Santorum squealing that wanting everyone to have access to a college education is “elitist” for example).
Meanwhile, they openly do nakedly extremely elitist things like this.
Not to mention being positively giddy in their support for a billionaire like Donvict. It doesn’t get much more elitist than that. SMH, the cons seem to delight in perverting the English language.