Give it to Maryland, along with Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County, Prince William County in VA (and throw in Carper’s Delaware, too, since it is too ludicrously small to be a state anymore).
Hey. It took us a long time to be able to get out of the Freak State and move to Virginia. No way we’re going to be part of that mess again.
I’m surprised the rats don’t harp on this more often, DISENFRANCHISED DISENFRANCHISED DISENFRANCHISED.
I’d be loathe to just give them to Maryland, which would screw over Maryland taxpayer, give Maryland another seat in the House at the expense of someone else, and end any chance of Maryland EVER electing a Republican statewide again (which may never happen anyway).
Sticking the liberal parts of VA in MD as well would make political sense for the GOP (as would Auh2o’s idea of a new state with leftist NOVA, DC, and parts of MD, which would leave Maryland more competitive and Virginia safe Republican) and I’d favor that, but that will never happen.
In lieu of way to include them that doesn’t provide a net benefit to the democrat party, I’m fine with them having no vote in Congress, they can adopt Charlie Rangel as their honorary Rep. If they don’t like that, they can move to a state. Based on the quality of their local officials, most of them should not have the right to vote anyway, they do as well with it as the Iraqis have, I would abolish their local control and appoint a commission to run the city. They should never have been given 3 electoral votes.
Democrats would never admit a tiny Republican city state or probably even let it govern itself.
Speaking of their local officials. The race for Mayor is this year, the candidates are a feminazi rat party shill, who beat the incumbent in the primary, an ultraliberal gay ex-RINO, and another ex-RINO (and frequent GOP nominee for Mayor) who was bribed to enter the race in order to take votes from the other ex-RINO.