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2015-06-01 -Land of the Free

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) open in WP that global warming deniers should be charged under RICO

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-06-01 08:44|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Try it skippy. You will love the tar and feathers we have for you.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-06-01 08:47|| 2015-06-01 08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the Civil Rights Act should be actively used against politicians who conspire to strip other citizens of their fundamental constitutional rights.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-01 09:10|| 2015-06-01 09:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Why the hell does tiny Rhode Island have 2 senators anyway? Personally I think they, and Deleware, and perhaps a few other of those tiny NE states should share a pair of Senators.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-06-01 10:57|| 2015-06-01 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Why the hell does tiny Rhode Island have 2 senators anyway?

So the oligarchs can tilt the playing field.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-06-01 11:53|| 2015-06-01 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Why the hell does tiny Rhode Island have 2 senators anyway?

Read US history much?

Posted by Pappy 2015-06-01 12:42|| 2015-06-01 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Why the hell does tiny Rhode Island have 2 senators anyway?
Same reason Wyoming does.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-06-01 12:59|| 2015-06-01 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 And Alaska, and Montana, etc.

Posted by Lemuel Dark Lord of the Jutes6153 2015-06-01 13:58|| 2015-06-01 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes I get your [very good] point - what I was thinking was each of RI's 1.5M population have a lot more 'representation' in the senate then each of, for example, New York's 8.4 million (or California's 38 Millions) who also only get 2 senators. If you are going to make senators elected by the public then shouldn't they be allocated by population like the house? (Not that I want the Senate to be like the House!)

And personally I think Senators should represent, and be elected by the STATE legislatures like originally designed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-06-01 15:29|| 2015-06-01 15:29|| Front Page Top

#9 No. A State is a State. This was dealt with early on.

Posted by Shipman 2015-06-01 16:59|| 2015-06-01 16:59|| Front Page Top

#10 True. But senators no longer represent the state but are elected by the people and not the legislature.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-06-01 21:21|| 2015-06-01 21:21|| Front Page Top

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