Posted on 07/10/2019 10:01:43 AM PDT by Starman417
As someone who's about to hit 20 years of living in the DC area, calls for DC statehood always rumble at varying levels of loudness. The practical answer it will never happen is that no party is going to give two new Senators to the opposition party that will have zero chance of ever being competitive. The legal answer is that it would violate The Constitution. Granted, for Lefties using The Constitution as toilet paper is a feature, not a bug, but I digress. The real answer goes back to why it was written into the Constitution in the first place - the capitol was placed in a completely independent district rather than any state so that said state would not receive more favorable treatment in congress over the non-capitol holding states.
Fun fact from my tour guide days here! The capitol was, of course, originally in New York. The southern states did not like that the capitol and its influence was located in the north and wanted it closer. The northern states relented and agreed to have a new capitol built at a halfway point, on the banks of the Potomac River. While the new capitol was being built, it was temporarily moved to Philadelphia. The northern states agreed to this because they wanted the capitol in Philly and thought that DC would never actually be built. So our capitol is built on one massive reclaimed swamp, hence the humidity and mosquitoes in the summer. Drain THIS!
But onto the point of this post, I'd argue that the #1 reason that DC should not be given statehood is that its residents don't deserve it. If that sounds harsh, look no further than how many times did Marion Barry get elected to office even after his downfall? OK, that really isn't a solid example to suggest the residents shouldn't have representation in Congress. For that I turn to one of their residents.
You already know that last week's collective meltdown by The Radical Left was President Trump's Independence Day parade. And like every previous freakout, this naturally also turned out to be nothing. I read a few of the meltdowns / laughing at the meltdowns articles, but one that was included in my daily Washington Post roundup caught my eye:
No tanks, Trump. Real Washingtonians aren’t interested in your party. Ah, I see what you did there! "No tanks" - now that's the kind of brilliant writing that makes me want to chip in to pay for the student loan debt of every J-School graduate! But before I even read the post I decided to click on the bio link for this literary heavyweight, Petula Dvorak. Just looking at the first page, she's given us gems such as "Is Trump moral enough to run a bar?" (regarding a nuisance suit some haters are filing),"Everything wrong with Congress — in one ballgame" (Grousing that the mens' team that generates more interest gets a larger venue), and of course,"We’re not the enemy of the people. We are the people." (Andy Ngo was unavailable for comment).
First off, let's look at what caught my eye, and probably yours as well - "Real Washingtonians" aren't interested? Right off the bat, we see the line drawn where somehow being a supporter of President Trump makes you not a "Real Washingtonian". As expected, the money quote comes quickly (emphasis mine):
This latest edict from Generalissimo Trump represents another insult to the residents of the nation’s capital, the people who live and work here, sink roots and raise families, coach Little League and organize neighborhood block parties. We didn’t vote for Trump (he won just 4 percent of the vote in the District), and we hate what he’s doing to our city.Faithful readers will recognize that this is where I generally shift into high gear and eviscerate line by line every bit if Leftist numbskullery. That won't be happening here, as the one line that I highlighted says it all. Am I the only one who is sick and tired of this sense of entitlement from Leftists who feel that respecting the results of a free and fair election only applies when their candidates win?
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Frankly I can pick out about 40 cities and 8 states who don’t deserve a vote.
It’s unconstitutional, but then again, so was the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Cede them back to Maryland and Virginia. No new liberal senators. Give them a Congress critter.
They have a Congresscritter.................
I still think it would be best for the government to buy up all the land in DC. Leases to those businesses allowed to operate there. Bulldoze most of them, and do a complete modernization of infrastructure and roads.
It would offer much more office space, park space, have much better traffic control, have special roads for deliveries, and to move a lot of people quickly, have covered automatic sidewalks, like they do in airport concourses.
She’s a non voting delegate in the House, she’s not a regular voting member of the House.
BUMP
Make them ALL be part of DC. Then Virginia might actually be competitive again.
How about we don’t need a state that’s only 67 square miles!
There. Easy.
Can’t vote
Vote doesn’t count
Give them too many counties and they’ll be approaching the volume most consider to be big enough for statehood.
Non-voting, except of matters pertaining to DC itself. She gets a vote in the committee..........
The Capitol was never in New York, although a capitol of a sort was and the city WAS the nation’s capital.
There’s a difference between capital with an “a” and capitol with an “o”.
DC needs to be shrunk. All federal facilities and land should be “district” controlled but the asinine DC government and their a-hole representatives need to go. Split the civilian areas and parcel them out to the adjacent states.
They have already ceded the portion south of the Potomac back to Virginia.
Not a good idea.
DC was never intended to be a place of permanent residence. People could reside there temporarily while serving the Federal government and retaining their citizenship in their state of origin.
Look at a map; it is still a tiny area geographically, populated almost entirely by people who suckle off the federal teat. They belong in DC.
DC either needs to grow to accommodate them or Fedzilla needs to shrink to the point where there aren't so many hangers on. We both know the likelihood of that ever happening.
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