The article this week discusses Senator Rus Feingold's plan to rid the Constitution of the 17th Amendment. The author discusses why Feingold would like to get rid of the amendment and why he would want it gone but he also makes fun of Feingold at the end of the piece. The reader would have to believe that the author does not think to highly of Feingold because of other ideas that he has had. The author might like the idea of getting rid of the 17th Amendment but coming from Feingold's mouth; the author would rather not listen.
Feingold wants to rid the 17th Amendment because he does not the that appointing people on the Senate for their individual state really is not the voice of the people. He thinks that the seats of the Senate should be elected for just like the other two braches of power, House and President. The author points out that this would take forever to elect all of the Senators from each state but I beleive the Feingold is right that we do need to elect the Senate seats because I feel that they would hear the voice of the people more.
Lastly, the author does poke fun at Feingold's thoughts that hurts Feingold's creditability. Feingold wanted to put a stipulation on government's speeches. The author says the with Feingold's thoughts he would also be rewriting the 1st Amendment.
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech unless it really, really wants to in order to guarantee that there will be only as much speech about the government as the government considers appropriate, and at times the government approves.”
Really?!?
