To Deliver Real Senate Rule Changes, Repeal The 17th AmendmentWe don’t need another radio show or beautiful think tank with marble bathrooms. We need to start winning. The reason we’re not is the game is rigged against us.
By Ned Ryun
May 12, 2017 Last week President Trump tweeted that Senate rules for budget bills should be changed. There’s little chance that will happen. But why settle for little changes when we need big-league change? We need to stop playing the game as it has always been played. If we’re to get this country back on track, we need to change the rules of the game.
Much of the frustration with Washington DC has been building for decades, and for good reason. People feel cut out and abandoned by their government. Government plays an even larger role in their lives and takes even more money out of their pockets, but they aren’t seeing many benefits. They feel they’ve been cut out by their party and its elites, whom they fund.
We’re staring $20,000,000,000,000 in debt, and it’s not slowing down. It’s exploding. Government is not shrinking. It’s expanding and will keep expanding as more baby boomers retire and start receiving Social Security checks. More and more of life’s decisions are being taken out of the hands of individuals and given to bureaucrats. Those who believe government’s size and scope should be limited are losing. And this is all happening in the supposed heyday of the modern conservative movement and the ascendancy of the Republican Party.
We’re Not Winning Because the Game Is RiggedLet me remind people: Republicans control the White House, the House, the Senate, 33 governors’ mansions, and 70 of the 99 state legislative chambers. There have been billions invested in the conservative movement over the last few decades. People try to tell me the conservative movement is winning because conservatives dominate talk radio and cable, or because it has never been better-funded. My response: we just look and sound better while getting our tails handed to us. It’s like a basketball team with really nice jerseys and the biggest crowds getting beaten 100 to 43. The spectacle looks nice but the scoreboard is truly embarrassing.
Folks, we don’t need to look better or sound better. We don’t need another radio show or another beautiful think tank building with marble bathrooms. We need to start winning. The reason we’re not is because the game is rigged against us.
That’s right: we’re playing a game where house rules make winning almost impossible. We keep playing it, even though the odds are against us winning, and every time we lose, we shake our fists at the skies and go, “Oh, rats. Foiled again. That’s okay, we’ll win next time.” That’s basically the thought of virtually everyone walking out of a casino, so you’ll be in good company.
Here’s a thought: let’s flip the table and change the rules. Rig them in favor of limited, responsible government. Because seriously, if we don’t bring fundamental change to our government, and just keep exfoliating that elephant of debt, guess what? That elephant, sans a few ounces, is going to land right on our collective heads.
Why Repealing the Seventeenth Will Help<..snip..>
http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/12/deliver-real-senate-rule-changes-repeal-17th-amendment/