The “Restoring Honor” event at the Lincoln Memorial was inspiring. That should be just the beginning of a “Restoration Movement.” We don’t really need a revolution in America; all we need to do is restore what once was. I have a suggestion for another aspect of our Founding that needs to be restored—a suggestion that some will call unrealistic, yet one that the Founders considered essential.

Let’s restore the provision in the original wording of the Constitution that allows state legislatures to choose a state’s senators who serve in Congress.

Article I, Section 3 says, “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof.”

The reasoning was lucid: the people of each state already had direct representation into the national government via the House of Representatives; it was necessary as well to provide representation for the state governments in the national Congress. The goal was to make sure that laws passed by each state were not going to be overturned by the national government without good reason.

It was one of those key checks on power; it was to provide balance in the federal system.

Why did this change?

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I condemn the NAACP. I condemn them for allowing the group to be used as a political tool to do the dirty work of the progressive movement. Instead of criticizing tea parties, the NAACP would be better served denouncing the racist comments made by a member of the New Black Panther Party and their voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in the last presidential election.

I condemn the NAACP, along with every race-baiting, sinful thinking poverty pimp and addle-pated black, brown and white denier of truth. The truth is, I believe, that they conduct and have conducted themselves as if there were no God — as if there were no Constitution — as if there had never been hard-fought civil rights victories.

They have dishonored the memory of that great American, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost two-score and seven years ago, he urged us all that Abraham Lincoln was due respect for the Emancipation. King urged us to expect America to deliver to all men the “riches of freedom and the security of justice.” He urged us to come together in brotherhood. He implored us to be not bitter, nor guilty of wrongful deeds. Finally, it was King’s hope that all would be judged by content of character above all else.

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President Obama’s ACORN/SEIU bussed in 100s of union protesters from across the country to stage 2 days’ worth of media events outside of the 2009 American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago.

SEIU leaders Andy Stern and Thomas Balanoff (DSA member) joined with Jesse Jackson and others, demanding that members of the American Bankers Association stop using taxpayer bailout funds to lobby against Progressive banking “reforms.”

From the SEIU website:

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