LEAVE THE 17TH AMENDMENT ALONE – Tea Partiers try to repeal constitutional provision

Over the last year or so, the evidence that the Tea Partiers' agenda can be pretty far out there has been overwhelming.

What you may not have heard, however, is that this same far-right crowd is especially incensed about the existence of the 17th Amendment -- the constitutional provision that empowers the electorate to choose their own senators, rather than state legislatures doing it, as the Constitution originally mandated.

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