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Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:39 am
by JockandBallTorture
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:47 am
by John Galt
yes, several times. it got filibustered in the senate last time in the 91st congress. Nixon was going to sign it, it passed in the house 338 - 70. House Joint Resolution 681 of the 91st Congress. later in 79 a majority (but not 2/3rds) voted in favor for it in the senate
http://www.every-vote-equal.com/sites/d ... web-v1.pdf
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:56 am
by John Galt
i think we need serious constitutional changes, and this is one of them. but i personally think a bigger and more important change is removal of house districts in favor of part-list votes in each state. while we're at it, make 3 senators per state, so one is elected every cycle. but i frankly think at this point we need to have a serious sit down and redo the constitution to make a more perfect union. it served us well, for a time, but it's showing its age. we had the first modern democratic republic, but we need to move away from the aristocratic influences that the founders had
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:35 pm
by spacemonkey
We need a bill that only eliminates pay for Congress during gov't shutdowns. I would add, no back pay either. But I'm a reasonably nice guy, so I won't add that.
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:23 pm
by John Galt
i think that socialista oscar-cortez was saying the same thing
too bad it doesn't matter and only will impact "poor" congresspeople. since congress makes better returns each year on investments than insider traders it doesn't impact anyone
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:41 pm
by Spider
on that note, lol at the wingnuts trying to make Ocasio-Cortez the new Democratic Satan. After all, Obama is gone, Clinton is sunsetting...and they are starting to sound ridiculous even to themselves by ranting "Hillary!" at every little thing. Not going to work on Ocasio-Cortez though. She's just too savvy at stomping out the trolls.
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:44 pm
by ToddStarnes
AOC is GOP karma for Trump.
She is great. Love you AOC!
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:53 pm
by John Galt
hey i was only making spacemonkey out to be a socialist
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:07 pm
by Spider
It's fair to point out that she's a socialist. Well, wannabe diet socialist, anyways. Unlike the other 99.98% of things and people that get labeled socialist on a daily basis, in her case the shoe at least sort of fits.
Re: Electoral College / Direct Election of Prez
Posted:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:18 pm
by JockandBallTorture