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GOP Backs Cong. Seat for DC; Hatch Gets Extra Seat for Utah in Logroll
"The American Spectator Online" ^ | 5/8/2007 | Doug Bandow

Posted on 05/08/2007 10:29:42 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot

Special Report Selling Out the Constitution By Doug Bandow Published 5/8/2007 12:08:14 AM The Republican Party, having squandered its electoral authority by succumbing to the dissolute wiles of Washington, appears to have learned nothing from its defeat last November. Faced with a clear challenge to the unambiguous language of the Constitution, many GOP leaders have abandoned their principles. Particularly shocking is the defection of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). As a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Hatch should view himself as a guardian of the Constitution. Instead, he set a low price for violating the document, a price that the Democratic majority says it will eagerly pay: one congressional seat. At issue is granting voting representation to the District of Columbia. (The District, like American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, already has non-voting delegates; Puerto Rico has a similar resident commissioner.) Adding a seat to Utah is meant to maintain the partisan balance. The measure has already passed the House with 22 GOP votes. Former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) roamed the halls, calling the measure a civil rights issue.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: District of Columbia; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: congress; dc; gop; statehood
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1 posted on 05/08/2007 10:29:48 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
Senator Hatch should view himself as a guardian of the Constitution.

Since when?

Hatch has previous advocated changing the document to allow foreign born (Arnold) to run for president and to allow illegals to vote.


2 posted on 05/08/2007 10:33:37 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Especially surprising since Bush will likely veto this bill, and they don’t have near enough support to override the veto.

President Hillary will gladly sign such a bill.


3 posted on 05/08/2007 10:34:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Jack Kemp is even less concerned about the Constitution, complaining about members who “literally walk away, saying the bill is unconstitutional. Unconstitutional? They voted for the Patriot Act!” Is his argument that if legislators voted for one unconstitutional bill, they should vote for another one? If that’s his attitude, why bother having a Constitution?

This is what Conservatism has come to? Comparing the Patriot Act to amending the Constitution by simple majority in the Congress?

Jack Kemp is hereby bestowed with the liberal Clown Nose of Infamy, he is a joke and should no longer be taken seriously.


4 posted on 05/08/2007 10:36:10 AM PDT by padre35 (we are surrounded that simplifies things-Chesty Puller)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

How many ways can we say butthead?


5 posted on 05/08/2007 10:37:18 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: TomGuy

Politics as usual. Is anyone really surprised?


6 posted on 05/08/2007 10:39:14 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: padre35

Kemp, Hatch, the President, all of the Beltway Republicans, have spent too much time up there; they’ve become liberal and out of touch; we need a new, truly conservative generation of leadership, with some clue as to what life is like in ordinary America


7 posted on 05/08/2007 10:40:32 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Hillary will sign the bill Without the Utah Compromise.


8 posted on 05/08/2007 10:44:04 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

Ya, that’s what I would be afraid of. All these Republicans agreeing in principle that DC should get a seat in Congress, but the next Congress and next President could then pull the extra Utah seat out of the compromise.

And if there are more Dems. in the next Congress, with Pres. Hillary, watch out.


9 posted on 05/08/2007 10:46:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

By the way, folks, I read some time ago that Utah even then was 10% Hispanic, and I would assume that many in that percentage are illegal; it is not the overwhelmingly Mormon, Republican safe seat it once was.


10 posted on 05/08/2007 10:49:46 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
Kemp, Hatch, the President, all of the Beltway Republicans, have spent too much time up there; they’ve become liberal and out of touch; we need a new, truly conservative generation of leadership, with some clue as to what life is like in ordinary America

The voters sent a few home in 06. Didn't wake up the GOP, apparently. Maybe another bunch will be sent home in 08.
11 posted on 05/08/2007 10:50:42 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

This would be the Camel’s nose under the tent..
Next will be seats in the Senate....
The Constitution be damned..

If this is the path the DNC desires, then let them attempt to amend the Constitution.


12 posted on 05/08/2007 10:51:04 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Hatch it was who also suggested he would be interested in methods of destroying the computer operating systems of those who have MP3 files. This was due to the bribes royalties the music industry paid him for his wonderful song writing. The extra seat for Utah is nothing, they would have gotten that eventually, and given the numbers of immigrants flooding into Utah it probably won't be Republican for long. So, like most Republican deals, it's a big bucket of warm spit.

You can't separate this issue from political correctness and modern racial politics, it is the fear of being seen denying the vote to blacks that drives the Republicans who support this.

13 posted on 05/08/2007 10:57:17 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: cbkaty

“How many ways can we say butthead?”
“S—t for brain” is the only other way I can think of!


14 posted on 05/08/2007 10:58:05 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: jordan8
Maybe the Republicans think the courts will strike the D.C. Representatives and they’ll still get to keep Utah.
15 posted on 05/08/2007 11:00:17 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

UNCONSTITUTIONAL


16 posted on 05/08/2007 11:05:21 AM PDT by philsfan24
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Even Mike Pence is onboard for this extra Constitutional law making foray.

The proposal to give representation in MD makes a sort of sense, but then again, if they feel that strongly about it, they could simply move there instead of trying to extort money from taxpayers through a House seat.


17 posted on 05/08/2007 11:06:58 AM PDT by padre35 (we are surrounded that simplifies things-Chesty Puller)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Whatabunchahorseshit!

Utah would have gotten another seat ANYWAY after the next census, and at the expense of an Eastern liberal state like New York or Wisconsin, thus robbing the Dims of a seat.

With THIS silly piece of stuff, the Dims win out!


18 posted on 05/08/2007 11:10:01 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: river rat
If this is the path the DNC desires, then let them attempt to amend the Constitution

Why ammend it when your Loyal opposition rolls over and ignores the constitution as much as you do.

Hell the dems just suggest something and repubs in their psychotic thirst to be loved beg to give it to them.

The constitution is nothing but a peice of paper, unless you live by its principles and principles are in damn short supply anymore.

19 posted on 05/08/2007 11:10:42 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: trumandogz

Hillary will sign the bill Without the Utah Compromise.

Fine, if she wins and they pass this then go ahead and let her.

Folks, principles are just that, even “if” Utah ends up with an extra House seat, the Republicans need to show that they respect the Constitutional Process for doing this inside the law.

One of the reasons why we lost this past fall is the Republican party went Beltway a number of years ago, why continue this trend?


20 posted on 05/08/2007 11:11:21 AM PDT by padre35 (we are surrounded that simplifies things-Chesty Puller)
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