Bill Whittle: Give Back the Senate

Well, the Republicans have retaken the Senate from the Democrats, and now that they have, it’s time to give it back to its rightful owners…

Join Bill Whittle in his latest Firewall, where he shows how destructive the Progressive Amendments have been — especially the Seventeenth Amendment. Find out why it matters! See the video and transcript below. 

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi everybody, I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.

Well, the Republicans have retaken the Senate from the Democrats. And now that they have, it’s time to give it back. Not to the Democrats. And not even to we, the people. No, now that Republicans have the Senate, it would be nice if actual conservatives lead the fight to return the Senate to its rightful owners.

See these ancient old prudes? These are Progressives. Yes, they were ancient old prudes even back in the Progressive era, around the turn of the last century. Now modern Progressives are a little better exfoliated and botoxed, of course, but they have in common with these proto-Progressives that same fiery look in the eye — which is that genetic defect of getting all excited about telling other people what to do — for their own good, naturally.

((WINK))

The Progressive Era gave us the Progressive Amendments to the Constitution — which, looked at individually, show just how envious Progressives are, how prudish they are, and how tyrannical they are.

The 16th Amendment gave us the income tax, which, when you think about it, doesn’t even penalize the rich — which was, of course their goal then as it is today. No, taking income penalizes hard work, and the harder you work, the more you get penalized. So next time you get your paycheck, take a look at the raw amount before withholdings. Thank the Progressives for what you don’t take home.

The Eighteenth Amendment — Prohibition — was the first time the Constitution was changed to actually take away a freedom: the freedom to get lit so that you didn’t have to listen to these Progressive harpies whine and complain day and night. But this freedom — the God-given freedom to have beer at the end of a hard day — was a little too precious, a little too near-and-dear to give up, so the eighteenth amendment was repealed by the twenty first Amendment. And don’t forget that: freedom can come back sometimes — if you miss it enough.

But the real damage was done by the Seventeenth Amendment, changing Article one, section three of the Constitution, which stated that U.S. Senators were to be elected by the legislatures of each state. The Seventeenth Amendment changed that to make US Senators electable by the people of the state.

Democracy! Now the people have a voice in Washington, not just the rich fat cats in the state legislatures! Hooray for democracy! And that is how Progressives steal freedom: they do it in the name of democracy. They’re very good at it now: they ought to be — they’ve had a lot of practice.

Well, first, those fat cats in the legislatures were in fact elected by the people of their state, so there’s some democracy for you right there.

But the main problem is, the people already had a voice in Washington: it’s called the House of Representatives. They’re elected directly by the people, every two years, and the more people a state has, the more representatives that state has in the House.

The Senate was never intended to represent the people. The senate was supposed to represent the states: that’s why Wyoming, with roughly five hundred thousand people, has two senators, and California, with roughly seventy-six times as many people — also has two senators.

The Seventeenth Amendment made the Senate utterly redundant. Now it’s kind of a retirement home for lifers; the House of Lords with six year terms that get further and further away from the people that elected them and who sit in a sort of royal court being serenaded by special interest groups in DC steakhouses.

The Senate was designed to protect the power of the states because the more power the states have, the less power the Federal government has — and vice versa. But progressives can’t leave people alone, you see? They have to take their income, and tell them whether they can drink or not, or what kind of health insurance they have to buy, or how big a soda they can have, and what kind of car to drive and all the rest. And in order to do that, they need the coercive power of central authority — which meant destruction of the power of the states. After all, you can’t force people not to gamble, drink, or whore around if they can just move to Nevada!

To paraphrase H.L Menken, that’s the Progressive nightmare: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may escape being told what to do.

Our founders weren’t the idiots we have in Washington today. They knew what kind of people go into politics — control-freak weenies, that’s what kind — and they set up legal and structural barriers to put limits on just how much power jug-eared narcissists, sleazy used-car salesmen and dimwitted botoxed harpies can actually accumulate. We need to get that power back to the states, so that if you don’t like the way they roll in Tulsa you can move to San Francisco and visa versa.

We repealed the Eighteenth Amendment — we can repeal the Seventeenth as well, because only the states are powerful enough to stop this Federal government from enforcing that Progressive utopia: a country where anything that is not forbidden is mandatory.

So kick back, relax, have a drink and think it over.

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  • keithbreedlove

    Repeal the 17th and pass a term limits amendment that limits consecutive terms to 2, with no bouncing back and forth between House and Senate. That could break the power of incumbency and mitigate the effects of money.

    • BillG4

      And here is the path to accomplish it -

      http://www.conventionofstates.com

      Sign the online petition and do what you can to move this forward.

      • keithbreedlove

        Bill, you’re preaching to the choir — I’m already a member and have participated in a couple of teleconferences here in Florida.

        • BillG4

          Glad to hear it. Hope others act on the post.

  • http://originalbirtherdocument.blogspot.com/ Art Telles

    Original Intent Dittos Bill…

    Regarding the will of the delegates in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was written with brilliant definite purpose.

    House – elected by the people
    Senate – elected by the states
    Executive – elected by the electors

    Brilliant!!!

    Yes, WE the People must take back control of our government, starting with an Article V convention of state legislatures meeting to consider the repeal of the 17th Amendment first, then other corrections and clarifications.

    1- Repeal the 17th Amendment.

    2- Repeal the 16th Amendment.

    3- Amend and clarify Article II Section 1 Clause 5, the “natural born Citizen” clause, to explicitly state that to fulfill the eligibility requirement to be POTUS, only a child born on U.S. soil (or U.S. jurisdiction elsewhere) to two U.S. citizen parents who are born or naturalized as U.S. citizens before the child is born, is the necessary and sufficient fulfillment.

    As it is applied now, if both parents become naturalized U.S. citizens one day and the child is born the next day, or next week, the one generation child is an nbC and eligible to be POTUS in 35 years

    However, with Islam and shariah a threat to U.S. liberty, maybe the implicit one generation presupposition should be amended to allow only 2nd generation children to be eligible.

    So, instead of it taking only one generation, 35 years, for an Islamic and jihadistic oriented couple coming to America and naturalizing first and then having a child on U.S. soil and raising the child as a promoter of Islam, shariah and jihad with the intent of “transforming” the U.S. Constitution into a shariah compliant constitution, it will take two generations, 70 years, for the second generation to build up a jihadistic head of steam and then hopefully fizzle out of jihad original intent.

    Just a thought…

    Just sayin’…
    Just sayin’…
    Just sayin’…

    4- Amend and clarify 2nd Amendment, remove the first and third commas, for example.

    5- Balanced budget.

    6- Commerce clause.

    7- etc.

    Art
    U.S. Constitution
    The Original “Birther” Document of the “Union”

    The “Union” as clarified by Pres. Lincoln in his first inaugural address in 1861.

  • Douglas Mayfield

    Thanks for the discussion. Perhaps I’m obtuse but I don’t see clearly how repealing the 17th amendment will lead to more power for the states and less abuse of power by those in Washington.

    • keithbreedlove

      the way it’s supposed to work is that the senators are beholden to their respective legislators, not to the people directly, giving it a republican form of government rather than a mobocracy. This would keep them attuned to issues directly affecting the state level, rather than just being a “House of Lords” beholden to their respective party.

      • Douglas Mayfield

        Thanks for the explanation. Not arguing but I have to admit I’m still skeptical that this would be better. Then again, I know almost nothing about how it worked before the 17th amendment was passed.

  • NonPCconservative

    Yes, repeal the 17th.

    Then pass an amendment that states that no law or regulation may favor one group over another i.e. if you subsidize wind and solar you must subsidize coal, oil and gas as well. If you lower entry requirements for blacks and Latinos you must also lower them for whites and Asians. If you have a tax break for movie makers you must also have that tax break for manufacturers.

    Once congress can no longer grant favors how many Democrats would want to be there?

  • GhostFlame

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