Putting the New York Times in its place
A couple of days ago the New York Times editorial board came out with a nutty idea for effectively doing an end run around the constitution and the electoral college. Basically, state legislatures would pass laws binding their electors to voting for the national popular vote winner. Besides being blatantly unconstitutional, the idea of a national popular vote determining the President would make flyover country as irrelevant as many on the left already believes it to be.
But letter-writer John Enerson puts it best:
To the Editor:
"Drop Out of the College" proposes that the nation substitute the time-proven judgment of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers for the views of your editorial board.
With all due respect, I will stick with the founding fathers.
John Enerson
Houston, March 14, 2006
Case closed.
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What the Times doesn't understand is that a Constitutional amendment requires 2/3 of each chamber and 3/4 of states. They are asking all 50 to give up power to the 5 or 6 largest. Ain't gonna happen. Not now, not ever! Of course, NYC is the naval of the world & they cannot see beyond the city limits, so they will just continue to ask all the rest of us to "be reasonable".