Following a meeting with Leader John Thune and republican senators, President Trump pauses to answer questions from the assembled DC press pool. Topics included the legislative agenda, border security, deportation of illegal aliens, Liz Cheney, the California fires, Greenland and the Panama Canal.
It’s a little humorous when you consider this is what a short ‘press conference’ with a President looks like. President Trump delivers rapid fire remarks in big contrast to the four years of Joe Biden. WATCH:
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Left to Right: Vice President JD Vance, Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR), Assistant Majority Leader, also called the Republican “whip” John Barrasso (R-WY), [PRESIDENT TRUMP], Republican Policy Committee Chair Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Remember, the Senate is a silo -by design- isolated from influence of the American public.
If we want to change the dynamic, we must repeal the 17th amendment and return to the original constitutional construct: Senators appointed to represent the interests of each state, by State Legislature.
The Senate was designed to represent the interests of the State, not ‘the people’; that’s the job of the House of Representatives.
Machiavelli said, “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” A prescient and oft repeated quote that is pertinent to the situation.
The House of Representatives was created to be the voice of the people, ie, “The Peoples’ House.” However, the U.S. Senate was structurally created to be the place where state government had representation in the federal government decision-making. The 17th amendment completely removed state representation, and we have been in an escalating battle over state’s rights ever since.
Overlay that DC structural issue with the fact that almost all of the bureaucracy created by this skewed DC system is now in place to defend itself from any outside effort to change it, and you get this UniParty problem that Donald Trump fully exposed.
Repeal the 17th amendment and we would see the most significant restoration of freedom, liberty and social balance in our lifetime.
Doesnt that group of phonies surrounding our legitimate President look like that outer Gallactic bar scene in Star Wars?
I was rather thinking about the band members in the bar in the original movie! Complete with sound.
Klingons of Star Trek.
P.S.: It is fun to realize that, after four long years of not having one, we are going to have “a President” again! 🤡
Why, he can speak, he can walk around on his own . . . “his opinions” are actually his!
He isn’t trying to shake hands with an imaginary person and he stays upright without falling down.
I am in a mood this a.m. I think john thune is nasty man. Look at that smug disrespectful smirck. The senate ‘force’. They don’t look particularly happy. They are liars, deniers, nasty btards.
One of them is my senator who wants to be potus. He is a snake! Untrustworthy.
Sorry, I need an attitude adjustment.
I believe your attitude is perfectly adjusted.
Carry on!
I can’t look at Thune without picturing him wearing his Third Reich uniform with jackboots.
Thune gives Trump a cold stare when Trump gratiously thanks him for “a great turnout.” Looks like thune’s playing pocket pool, does’t it?
Thune is our enemy. Period!! Also what was ALL THAT WIGGLING AROUND ADJUSTING SOMETHING ON HIS lower BACK?!! A recording device? Sheesh. Den of thieves.
Among the things too numerous to mention, one gall for me of the past 4 years was the cold shoulder and smirk of Biden when given questions. It was the biggest ‘fazook you’ to the American people. And yet, Libs were all ok with that.
On a sidebar, are Cotton and Thune taller than Trump?
Over the long term repealing the 17th likely would be of benefit. Short term, we’d still have the likes of Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott. Our ridiculous clown of a governor, Henry Foghorn McMaster, and the RINO’s we continue to send to Columbia would just keep the same clowns in place, or some reasonable facsimile thereof. But hopefully this would finally get the people of SC to wake up and pay closer attention to our state and local corruption and chaos.
if the 17th were to be repealed, there would be no need for a federal law for term limits. The states could take care of that themselves, which is as it should be.
Every year our representatives keep getting older and older and somewhat more dire.
But no less corrupt
they remind me of the evil Shelob, the spider from LOTR.
Between the the 13th and 17th Amendments States have basically abdicated all their power given them in the Constitution! They have sold their powers in exchange for Federal dollars! Repeal both those Amendments and the Federal dollars would dry up and the States would get their Constitutional powers back! With the Senate silo no longer representing States I would also offer that those Amendments have resulted in Congress spending trillion of dollars more than collected in tax revenue! Congress is of the opinion that the more money they spend, the more new programs they create, the more problems they solve the better job they are doing!!! Unfortunately the problems they “solve” create more problems needing more Congressional solutions resulting in more spending !!! JMO Godspeed President Trump and Sundance!!!
Once we have a fiscal crash, the Uniparty won’t be able to borrow cash to buy off the states, and their stranglehold will end.
Unfortunately, that’s where we’re headed.
Correct me if I’m wrong, I think you might mean the 16th amendment rather than the 13th, the power to tax.
The 16th did not create any power to tax. The power is plenary. It was a technical amendment concerning the taxation rule to apply: apportionment vs uniformity.
Yes I meant the 16th Amendment! Thanks for the correction!!! My apologies!!! That Amendment has led to the IRS and its code of about 72,000+ pages lacking a lick of common sense specifically designed to fund Congressional pork barrel spending projects!!!
Repealing the 17th will be a tall order. A great majority of the people today are ignorant of the original intent of the senate. I all for its repeal, how we get the ball rolling escapes me at this time.
Repealing the 17th is unlikely to have the effect envisioned; instead it would subordinate state legislatures to the Senate. Voting for state rep/senator would be a proxy vote for US senator.
I see the same “faces” of the Turtle’s lieutenants Thune and Barrasso. Nothing has changed.
Sundance!! Thank you for pointing this out. I posted this numerous times as a method to neuter that FILTHY evil compromised Senator from Kentucky that has ruined your country for the past 40 years.
To me THIS is the best way to return to normal business like President Trump is attempting to do.
BRAVO!!!
Neutralize this disgusting old man club.
FILTHY LIBERALS
Great idea!
Cotton and Thune give each other a little knowing smirk obviously acknowledging some previous conversation between them. It happens just as President Trump turns to the media
… just as President Trump turns to the ‘media’… DC press pool is a dangerous cesspool.
Is it me, or does the snake, Thune, look extremely uncomfortable? He eyes POTUS Trump like a vermin eyes a hawk, or in this case, an Eagle.
The President Elect is more accessible than the vacationing POTATUS. I hope Trump pounds the press with this when they begin to whine about access to Trump.
Is anything being done to repeal 17th amendment? An organization? A person?
Sundance has broached the subject.
We go from here, and no, there is no campaign to the best of my knowledge, yet.
The John Birch Society has tremendous resources and many decades of battle and are fully aware of the need to repeal the 17th and called for it, but we would need a far more nimble and meme savvy movement to push this change as an essential part of the Restoration of the Republic.
Ah, just keep voting the demorats in. For the last 23+ years LA has had nothing but demorat mayors. The last Republican was Richard Riordan who left office in 2001. Add to that the brown/newscum tenure for the last 14 years and this is why commiefornia is so screwed up. Read the following from Powerline blog regarding the stupidity of the ‘rat run state. All these politicians do is pander to the eco freaks.
The Fire This Time | Power Line
The lone woman in that photo looks like her dog just died.