The Tenth and the Seventeenth

[unixronin]

I stumbled across an article posted a few months back by Tony Blankley, giving a very cogent and well-reasoned argument in favor of repeal of the 17th Amendment.  He argues convincingly that while the 17th Amendment was passed in response to widespread corruption among Senators, all it actually achieved was to centralize the Senate corruption in Washington DC and make it worse, and to dilute the ability of voters to oust their Senators for corruption.

I was actually looking for a transcript of a Front Page show that I, again, stumbled across mention of, in which Blankley opined that the GOP is one election — or, rather, one major failure — away from death.  His contention is that the Republican Party has blown it so badly in recent years that if they win big in 2010 (as they look likely to do as a result of voter backlash against Obama's policies), and then blow it AGAIN, the GOP is finished.

Blankley also opined, in another recent column, that we have screwed up so badly in Afghanistan politically, vacillating on support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai and then publicly humiliating him, that we no longer have the support necessary for a military victory there, and would be best advised to cut our losses and bring our troops home.

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[house-pundit.livejournal.com]

Have a streamlined procedure for getting innocent people off the no fly list. Deal affirmatively with mistaken identity issues. Have a policy of apologizing to and compensating people delayed because of mistaken identity, and affirmatively assisting them to keep it from happening again.

Perhaps a biometric "I can fly" card, or register their driver's license/state ID number and social security number, any of the three being enough to get them on the plane.