stripped the states of their power to limit sprawling federal
power....w/ WW, FDR, LBJ, RMN and 0'Buttcrack.
Posted on 12/26/2012 10:27:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Huffington Post reports that a bill to move the District of Colombia toward statehood has been introduced in the Senate. Buzzfeed says “the 51st state would be called New Columbia” and be granted full voting representation in the Senate and House. A group called DC Vote has launched a White House petition to call on President Obama for support. It is indeed time that D.C. voters become fully enfranchised as the 51st state. But it is also high time that the nation’s capital be moved from its quaint antiquarian, Eastern enclave to the center of our country. Louisville would be the perfect spot for a “new District of Columbia.”
In earliest days, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were correctly viewed as the centers of America: they were the benign centers of countervailing regions, nominally North and South, with dividing overviews — industrialization and manufacturing in Hamilton’s North, provincial agrarianism in Jefferson’s South.
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My suggestion: a supercommittee of governors and former governors to discuss the issues of Western relevance and state sovereignty: Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, who compared California to Athens and Sparta in his inaugural address, Rick Perry of Texas who questions why a state with a surplus must support those in deep and growing debt, Sarah Palin, who singularly rose Tea Party issues of heartland America to relevance, Butch Otter of Idaho, Jodi Rell of Connecticut, who with Schwarzenegger challenged the feds on auto emissions, and Nikki Haley of South Carolina...
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This is typical liberalism. Take something that is failing badly and rotting from within due to their policies, gerrymander it to suit their needs, then change the name and appearance of it.
Like the Drive-By-Media, they then wipe their hands, smile broadly and move on to the next thing to destroy, and gain two senators in perpetuity.
There was a specific reason Washington DC was not given representation, but they are too stupid and ignorant to understand.
Liberals are ideological locusts.
As if that makes any difference anymore.
Bunk. Move them back to Maryland where they belong. No way DC needs two Senators. As far as moving the capitol, move it to the hardest to reach point in Kansas
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Agreed , let Maryland absorb D.C ,, they’re just as liberal ... I think Oklahoma night be a better place for the new capitol...
B.S. idea. If D.C. ever stops being the Capital, it should revert to being part of Maryland. It most certainly does not merit 2 senators. Additionally, once the whorish industry of free money roles out of town, so too will 90% of the population.
Perhaps it should be stipulated that the people who work in D.C. must live in D.C.
Louisville? I don’t want those SOBs here. Move them to Moscow or China where they fit in better.
It would happen. Those clowns don't need representation, they need supervision.
I’m in Louisville and I don’t want them either. The Jefferson County School board is reason enough for property owners to flee Jefferson County. Moving Washington over here would be a death sentence.
...granting statehood looks to be directly in violation of stated Constitutional language.
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True. But, in case you have not noticed: Dear Leader don’t need no steenkin’ Constitution.
See my #28.
Give DC to Maryland — from whence it came. As posters have already indicated, we don’t want two permanent permanent ultra-liberal, Communist-loving, America-hating Leftists.
If you move the capital, there would be no reason for DC to exist, let alone merit statehood.
Louisville is a lovely city with very nice people. Why destroy it?
I suggest that Detroit be the next DC. After all, it woul benefit greatly from being given “something” to do and our government could use all those guns they have ordered to stay safe.
Louisville is nice, but we need a capital closer to the center of the nation, far away from lobbyists and east and left coast liberals and odious for the national media. How about western Nebraska?
“The Jefferson County School board is reason enough for property owners to flee Jefferson County.”
You got that right. Incompetent boobs.
Divide Washington, DC into two cities, one in Virginia and one in Maryland. Don’t start screwing around with the Congress!
Yep. And not just him. There is an entire political party in this country that wants to rewrite it. They know they don’t have the votes to change it legally, so they are either ignoring it or using executive orders to go around it.
Shame on us for not holding them accountable. When behavior stops having consequences, there is no limitation on behavior.
I think somebody has way too much time on his hands, to sit around and think of crapola like this. Too many people on the payroll who don’t have anything better or more productive to do.
Shame on us for not holding them accountable. When behavior stops having consequences, there is no limitation on behavior.
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You are so right.
...for those interested. :D
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