NYT op-ed calls for election changes

It’s that Constitution thing. The writers say mid-term elections once made sense – “at our nation’s founding, the Constitution represented a new form of republican government, and it was important for at least one body of Congress to be closely accountable to the people.”

But this is the modern age, and “we do not need an election every two years to communicate voters’ desires to their elected officials.”

Well, why not get rid of the House of Representatives altogether? A unicameral legislature would be a lot cheaper. Just have six-year elections for the Senate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/opinion/cancel-the-midterms.html?_r=1

(At maggiesfarm.)

I have a sense that the op-ed writers do not understand the Constitution or American history.