Posted on 05/08/2007 10:29:42 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot
They have learned NOTHING from '06.
Repubs still haven’t learned. Sickening at the stupidity! Move the fed govt out of DC, give the land back to MD and presto, no more disgruntlement.
If only one seat were added, there would be an even number of seats in the House which would create the possibility of deadlock due to tie votes.
I would support ceding the residential areas back to Maryland and allowing them to vote in Maryland for a House seat and Maryland's two Senate seates but only if the 23rd amendemnt were simultaneously repealed. DC is not a state, nor is it part of a state, and the US Constitution is very clear that only states have representation in Congress.
UT was just short in 2000. But it’s likely that a Dem state will be just short in 2010. You’re not getting much (2008 at the earliest, maybe only 2010). It strikes me as a bad deal politically and then a constitutional violation as well.
From an earlier post of mine on another thread:
These results were based on official Census Bureau estimates — which may not be correct, and there will be further changes before 2010. However I would expect FL and CA to knock out IL and MN at the very least.
Also, this deal doesn’t correct the problem that caused Utah to not get the seat. The census bureaus still doesn’t count US citizens involved in missionary activities in foreign countries, but does count active duty military stationed overseas.
Time for the GOP to buy DC.
If DC gets a seat in Congress, then Texas should exercise its option to split into 5 states and get 10 Senators. Yeah, a couple would be Dems, but instead of a net +2 for the Republicans, there’d be a +6. See how the Dems like THAT.
Come to think of it, why doesn’t Texas do that anyway. Oh, yeah - a bigger state means more potential for the same limited group of power brokers to skim some bribes off the top. Nevermind.
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