Posted on 01/08/2021 10:13:39 AM PST by Meatspace
The collision of two major events Wednesday — the breach of the U.S. Capitol and Democrats’ clinching of the Senate majority — has unleashed a burst of momentum for D.C. statehood at the start of a new congressional session.
At a Thursday news conference, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) grew impassioned as she sought to frame the stakes of the statehood cause against the backdrop of Wednesday’s insurrection: D.C. residents, she said, risked their lives to defend a Congress that affords them no voting representation.
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DC Police and Capitol Police under the control of Pelosi coordinate to seizing of the Capitol and they want to parlay that into Statehood for DC.
It would be completely contrary to our former Constitution and the design of the founders.
All they have to do is get 38 states to agree to give up their rights and be ruled by a central super state.
In the fwiw department, you would have to amend article I.
Oops, what am I thinking? The commiecrats don’t need no constitution.
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Which is a win-win for Pelosi and her lickspittles.
Who is going to stop the Dems from making DC a state?
The Constitution? It doesn’t matter any more.
SCOTUS? Who ever brought suit against it happening would be ruled to have ‘no standing.’
Congress? If only simple majorities are required in the House and Senate, then Dems have the majority in the House, and while currently tied in the Senate, there would easily be turncoat RINOs who would go along.
A national referendum? With Dominion machines counting the mail-in ballots, the outcome is obvious.
SAME ANSWERS apply to whether to abolish the Electoral Collage and pack SCOTUS.
The District of Columbia does not even make a decent COUNTY, let alone a “state”. Pare the actual district down to the stretch along Pennsylvania Avenue, to take in the Capitol, the Supreme Court building and the White House complex, then deed the remaining area back to Maryland, designating it District county, and subject to the Maryland legislature.
But of course that is much too logical a step for the rabid “reformers” now with hands on the levers of power.
“D.C. residents, she said, risked their lives to defend a Congress that affords them no voting representation.”
Oddly enough the hot button issue should be taxation without representation. Fight for no taxation and skip the reps.
“Oddly enough the hot button issue should be taxation without representation. Fight for no taxation and skip the reps.”
No taxation is not going to happen, statehood might.
However, no taxation in DC is a better option and would increase real estate values in the District.
Howard Baker and Strom Thurmond tried to end-run for D.C. statehood c. 1978.
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Criminal incompetence. IF NOT COLLUSION with those who are out to smear Trump and half of America (who voted for Trump).
WE Blame the Demlefty media for enabling/coddling those anarchist/antifa kooks and the media/deepstaters now using those hooligan instigators to blame Trump with.
TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO “25th” these foul un-american propagandists and the hateful politicians.
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What’s next, make every Blue State Shithole City a State?
Apparently so...
help Educate me, but even if the House, Senate and President approve making DC a State, doesn’t that still require two thirds of the States to Ratify it?
What Happens When The Democrats Seize Control Of The Federal Government - Updated
No. As crazy as it sounds, bringing a new state into the union only requires congressional vote and a presidential signature (assuming the territory itself wants statehood).
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; ...
They will do that...and much more. <-- That's what was as stake this last election.
Hmmm... How many states must ratify such a move?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
D.C. statehood is a key part of the totalitarian plan.
Not a chance. This is Democrat bluster. Puerto Rico maybe , but DC requires a Constitutional Awomendment that would need 38 states to okay it. It would die on the vine because if the Democrats had the power to make it happen they really wouldn’t need it and they will soon discover their political capitol will go just so far.
These assholes are so predictable.
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