Posted on 03/03/2009 3:31:48 PM PST by cotton1706
The patently unconstitutional bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House of Representatives was pulled off the House calendar because -- according to one House Republican leadership source -- they feared that the so-called Blue Dog Democrats would not support it.
The bill was patently unconstitutional because under Article 1, Section 2, only states have representatives, and D.C. isn’t a state. (That idea is reinforced by the XXIII Amendment, under which D.C. voters are allowed to vote in presidential elections, and thus appoint electors to the Electoral College, “…equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State….”)
The Blue Dogs, a group of supposedly conservative Dems who have usually marched to Speaker Pelosi’s drum, were fearful that the National Rifle Association would “score” -- i.e., use the vote to determine its annual rating of gun-friendly (and unfriendly) members the vote on the rule to bring the matter to the House floor.
That same source told HUMAN EVENTS that the rule would have precluded consideration of an amendment -- similar to that approved in the Senate last week -- to preserve D.C. residents’ gun rights.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) released the following statement a few moments ago after the Democratic Leadership pulled the D.C. Voting Rights Act from this week’s House floor schedule:
“The Democratic leadership repeatedly has made promises for a return to ‘regular order’ in the House, but this is added proof of just how hollow that promise has become. By maneuvering to deny Second Amendment rights to residents of our nation’s capital, Democratic leaders have made it clear that ‘regular order’ and the will of the American people will be respected only when it serves their interests. Americans expect more out of their leaders in Washington than this, and it’s time for both parties to work together to restore people’s trust in their Congress.”
Congratulations to the NRA for holding the Blue Dogs’ paws to the fire.
“Blue Dogs”....yeah right, there are no conservative democrats in the House...if they were, they wouldn’t be democrats....
Blue Dog is just a beneficial term for them come election time.
DC is not a state.
This is good news. There are no vacuums in politics. This defeat will bleed over into other political battles.
I do not understand this sentence-
The Blue Dogs, a group of supposedly conservative Dems who have usually marched to Speaker Pelosi’s drum, were fearful that the National Rifle Association would “score” — i.e., use the vote to determine its annual rating of gun-friendly (and unfriendly) members the vote on the rule to bring the matter to the House floor.
I want Eleanor Holmes Norton’s vote NEVER to count on the floor!!
....the ban on implementing the "Fairness Doctrine " was attached to this bill by Sen. Jim DeMint...there I fixed it.
Kisses for Jim DeMint! Keep attaching it to every bill, Senator!
Democrats don’t believe in democracy. They believe in subterfuge.
If the shootdown of the fairness doctrine was an amendment to this bill then.......
So if the dems have withdrawn the DC voting bill...
FROM WIKI:
In the current Congress, some members have introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 (S. 34), to block reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine. On February 26, 2009, by a vote of 87-11, the Senate added that act as an amendment to a bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House.
Many of the House Democrats in “red” districts are downright scared of the NRA. The NRA is very deft at politics ... they reward Democrats when they even come close to voting their interests.
After the euphoria of the election and the inauguration and the stimulus has worn off, the dems slowly start to realize they have a president who has nothing else but asking for more and more money to toss at every problem.
Thus, whether blue or otherwise, they start resembling dogs running around after their own tails, having no idea what to do now that they have the power to do just about anything.
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