Posted on 02/11/2009 8:58:36 AM PST by Perdogg
I don’t think Alabama wants to be divided into two states.
Careful.
There are people on FR who worship Rush Limbaugh every bit as reverently as a lot of Dems worship “The One”.
Personally, I am suspicious of ANYONE who puts TAHT much stock in what ONE person says/thinks.
Exactly right. Rewarding bad behavior is stupid.
The R’s would have rubber stamped every stupid thing McCain proposed had he won.
We at least have a chance of righting the ship. Had McCain won there would be no chance of that.
The Kool-Aid drinkers don’t have friggin clue.
I wonder if anyone cares or even notices?
The one issue conservatives and other disgruntled Republicans who voted for BHO or stayed home last NOV have got no one to thank but themselves for what is happening.
The Democrats are in the process of establishing themselves as the PERMANENT MAJORITY PARTY.
The executive branch take over of the upcoming census and this DC voter initiative not to mention the government takeover of banks and big business just solidifies the GOP to Minority Party status for generations to come and WE are powerless to stop them.
“DC has had no vote for two centuries.” I think that when DC was originally excluded from voting representation there was a very small population of non government people. Now, DC has as much population as several small states. Is it really fair to say that tax paying citizens of the US should be denied any voting representation, now and forever? Perhaps the thing to do would be to charge DC residents 1/2 income tax, as they have a vote for President and Vice President, but no voting Congresspeople or Senators.
None of that makes this proposed legislation any less Unconstitutional. In 1978, the Congress submitted a proposed Constitutional amendment to the States. The proposal would have granted DC full representation in the House and the Senate. It only got 16 ratifications. Maybe a proposal which only dealt with DC representation in the House would have better luck.
They washed their hands; they feel clean as the rats soil our republic.
ok, that was my memory .. in our then newly gerrymandered CD, the Dem Congresswoman voted for DC to have that vote. At a town meeting *someone* asked how that helped OUR cd and she couldn’t answer. The R beat her in Nov.
The Obama BOHICA Chronicles Chapter 2.
That’s exactly right. Conservative R congressionals are boxed in(forced) to liberalism when the republican president proposes something that they’d oppose if it were a D proposing it.
We’re going to go through an incredibly hard four years. There is absolutely no doubt about it.
But right now we have a fighting chance. With McCain, we’d have been sunk by “our own president’s” liberal policies and nothing to stop it. The R would *HAVE* to have signed on, and of course D would’ve been more than happy.
Very fair. No representation is fine with me. If DC wasn't overwhelmingly Black this would be a non issue. Democrats are trying to inject a racial angle. I had relatives in DC. I never heard them complain about lack of representation
Why stop there? Why not a seat for every US Embassy across the globe?
Number One - nobody has to live in DC right now. The award-winning Metro is widely regarded as the best mass-transit system in the country.
Number Two - if this was anything other than a naked power grab, Congress would solve the “fairness” and “taxation without representation” problems by ceding all residential and commercial land in the District back to Maryland and Virginia, perhaps with some take-back provision within the 10-mile square for future expansion,leaving the District effectively a Federal campus with no more permanent residents than are found in the Fidelity Investments campus here in Merrimack, NH.
You’d have North Washington, Maryland, and South Washington, Virginia. Ta-da, all done, no raping of the Constitution necessary.
But that approach wouldn’t increase the power of Democrats in Congress, so it’ll be a cold day in hell before they do anything like that.
He also claimed, even more laughably, that Willard Romney was a conservative.
Then you should have no problems finding one video or audio recording of him making that claim should you?
...during the primaries how conservative W was. I recall his telling of private conservations with prominent people who knew W personally, and that people would be surprised. Other Freepers have shared this recollection in other posts.
Honestly I don't care if God Himself shared his "recollection" confirming what you are saying Rush said. Without an actual transcript, video or auto record of him stating that GWB was a Conservative all you have is assumptions based on hearsay.
I also listen to Rush and have NEVER, EVER heard him state that he believed that GWB was a conservative. I have heard him say that he knew others that believed GWB to be a conservative and that he believed GWB to be "more conservative than" either "Gore" or "Kerry", but he (Rush) has, to my knowledge, ever endorsed the view that Bush is a "Conservative."
Feel free to prove me wrong.
Thx!
Well let's see. Multiple 9/11's. Libya still a threat. Hussein still in Iraq. Larger entitlement spending. Reduction in the military. Environmentalism run amuck. Embryonic stem cell research funding. Exec orders out the wazoo. No. I don't believe Al Gore would have been an improvement.
Nationalized economy? Economic ruin? Debt?
Although George Bush was very much “anti-terrorist” he lacked focus on the most dangerous threat (Jihad and Shariah).
Any psychopath with a political motive can be a terrorist, but it takes a committed Muslim to be a Jihadist.
Islam has made great leaps and bounds on the ground in America in the last 8+ years.
and you think Al Gore would have been better?
My point was that he could have been less worse by virtue of a GOP Congress. The same one that neutered slick willy to a degree. Bush, otoh, ran completely amok with new spending programs.
A Senate committee approved a bill today that would give the District its first full seat in the House of Representatives, setting up a crucial vote by the full chamber sometime in coming months. The Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee passed the legislation 11 to 1 at its first business meeting in the new Congress. The lone "no" vote was cast by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.Battles -- choose wisely. Stimulus!
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