Let's Speak of the Senate

The word 'senate' is from the ancient Roman, meaning old man or elder.  I suppose that we should see it as elder, as our United States Senate is approximately one-fifth female.  Old certainly is accurate in describing the US Senate, as the average age is sixty-three, with nearly a third of senators being in their seventieth year of life or beyond.  Of those, seven are octogenarians, with one of them, Orrin Hatch, holding the title of Senate President Pro Tempore', which puts him third in line to the presidency.
  Senator Hatch is finally retiring, having spent the last half of his eighty-four years on Earth in the Senate.  His seat will most likely be filled by previous presidential candidate, Mutt Romney, who is no Spring chicken himself, as he will be almost seventy-two when he takes office.

Hatch's place in the line of presidential succession will most likely be taken over by an even older oldster, Chuck Grassley, who has really recently made a name for himself as the Chairman of Chicanery in the Judiciary committee hearings regarding Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
  That is dependent upon the Repulsicans/Rebooblicans maintaining or increasing their majority in the Senate, which they damned well should.  As scary as it is to think of these doddering old octogenarians in such an important position, they pale in comparison to other recent holders of that designation.
 Robert 'KKK' Byrd was a well established nonagenarian and Strumpet Thurmond was in this hundredth year of life when they held that lofty office.  And scarier yet is the prospect of the Demoncats/Dummycraps becoming the majority party, so that Patrick Leahy, who is knocking on 80's door will assume that distinction.  
It's not just age that bothers me about the composition of the Senate.  Much more than that, it's the ideological composition of the chamber that worries me most.  The current state of the United States Senate is a screaming indictment of the current system of selection of senators.  It becomes increasingly apparent with every passing election cycle, that any damned idiot, including illegal aliens and convicted felons, who has reached the age of eighteen can vote for these federal officials, without knowing a damned thing about them, beyond their party affiliations.   Since it is more than just self evident that we have no way to ensure that only an intelligent and informed electorate shall elect these people to these positions of power, it causes me pause to reconsider term limits for our legislators in both Houses of Congress.
More than all of that, it's the very existence of the body that troubles me the most.  That's why I do away with it in my soon to be published American Constitution for the 21st Century and Beyond.  The national legislature would be a unicameral body and the Senate's constitutionally mandated "advise and consent" duties, which Judge Kavanaugh so correctly called "search and destroy", would be delegated to the states' governors.  The Senate was created by The Great Compromise of 1787.  It was conjured up by the two oldest delegates to the Constitutional Convention of that year, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman.
  It was seen as the only way to get the small states like Connecticut, Rhode Island. Maryland, and New Hampshire, and the large states, like New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia to come to terms relevant to Congressional representation.  With history's hindsight, we can see that it was nearly as odious and onerous as the infamous three-fifths compromise concerning slavery.
George Washington supposedly saw the concept of the Senate as a good thing, analogous to a coffee cup's saucer.  As that saucer allows coffee to cool before drinking, the Senate would 'cool' legislation before passage, through deliberative debate and discussion.  That was in the days prior to the seventeenth amendment, when state legislators selected their federal senators.  At that time, senators represented their states' interests, rather than simply being two additional representatives of the vox populi.  It was a system more conducive to correctly carrying on the country's business.  What was originally intended as deliberative debate and discussion, has, in 21st century America, become rancorous retaliatory rhetoric, which proves, over and again, that compromise is the solution that solves nothing.
If by no other example in history, that contention is proven to be a truism, was Neville Chamberlain's deal with the National Socialists of Germany in the 1930's.  Now, we have a cowering caucus of Repulsicans and Rebooblicans, who claim to be conservative, as Prime Minister Chamberlain purported to be, bending over backwards, and forward in preparation for Princess Pelosi's and Prince Consort Cory's political strap-on and big brown penis, as they, like Chamberlain kowtow and capitulate to the leftist illiberal fascism/socialism of the Demoncat demagoguery and fourth estate folderol.  And let us not forget that Sen. Booker has his own, openly admitted, autobiographical instance of sexual assault in 1992. 
 
With no 'supposedly' about it, those two concepts, partisan political parties and a prevaricating press, were absolutely abhorred and admonished by President Washington, as they should be by all concerned, conscious Americans today.   But so many Americans today are unconcerned and unconscious, or perhaps merely complacent with no conscience.  That's why, following next will be a look at the upcoming mid-term elections, particularly those for control of the Senate, and thereby, the Republic.