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Dem: Congress Should ‘Educate’ The Rest Of America On Importance Of ‘Sacred’ DC
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | March 8, 2017 | Kathryn Watson

Posted on 03/13/2017 8:58:06 AM PDT by kevcol

Americans who live outside of the nation’s capital should understand the District of Columbia is “sacred ground,” according to a Virginia congressman who represents a district that is among the wealthiest in the country thanks largely to its heavy concentration of highly paid federal workers.

Rep. Gerry Connolly told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) Wednesday that Congress may need to “educate” people on why federal departments and agencies should be centralized on the “sacred ground” of D.C.

Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, made the comments as the committee debated a House resolution encouraging federal agencies to relocate away from D.C. in an effort to get them outside the Washington region’s political, cultural and economic bubble.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 115th; biggovernment; congress; democrats; dopeydems; draintheswamp; gerryconnolly; virginia
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1 posted on 03/13/2017 8:58:07 AM PDT by kevcol
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2 posted on 03/13/2017 8:58:24 AM PDT by kevcol
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Sacred??!!!! If sacred means so corrupt it stinks to high heaven, then, yeah. Sacred.


3 posted on 03/13/2017 8:59:36 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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OK then - Drain The Sacred Ground


4 posted on 03/13/2017 8:59:54 AM PDT by relictele (`)
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How would this not violate the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment?


5 posted on 03/13/2017 9:01:04 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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As I walked around the Mall in October 2015, it all seemed to me to be a pagan temple. I have studied the temple complexes of other cultures. I see no difference. There was little if any acknowledgement of God. It is crowded now with museums of this and that and monuments to this and that. Soon I’m sure there will be a monument to LGBTQDKDKSLSL+. And probably one to Margaret Sanger. Move the offices out. It could be a good way to encourage the civil servants to quit and get real jobs. There is nothing sacred about that ground unless you believe in a secular religion.


6 posted on 03/13/2017 9:04:11 AM PDT by Mercat
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As a resident of Maryland but within easy driving distance of DC, I benefit in several ways from the disproportionate wealth of those in the DC region. As a taxpayer and (I hope) a decent person, I don’t allow that personal gain to affect my political views. It is immoral for my region to benefit at the expense of taxpayers nationwide.

Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. To the extent that government is acting in its own interests or on behalf of local interests, that consent can and should be withdrawn. It is unethical to enrich ourselves simply because we have the power to do so. [Note: I have enriched myself personally, but that was through voluntary transactions every time. In each such contract, without exception, I delivered far more value on the contract than what I charged for my services. As a pollster, repeat business for my services was almost guaranteed to be requested.]


7 posted on 03/13/2017 9:06:13 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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"The capital is the beating heart. Your hard work feeds us, and in return, we feed and protect you."

Hunger Games: President Snow's Panem Address #1 - "Together as One".

8 posted on 03/13/2017 9:07:21 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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Washington should be scared
not sacred.


9 posted on 03/13/2017 9:08:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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They really are just like the Capital from Hunger Games....


10 posted on 03/13/2017 9:09:15 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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according to Wiki, Connolly was the last graduating class of Maryknoll College - which was actually a seminary.

So the word “sacred” is probably part of his regualr vocabulary


11 posted on 03/13/2017 9:10:08 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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Perhaps Mr. Connolly can introduce some special ceremonies in his legislation - you know, to help us poor bumpkins appreciate the sacredness of the Federal Guv'mint. Maybe Mr. Connolly can put on some robes and show us how it's done!


12 posted on 03/13/2017 9:10:15 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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DC is a festering boil that needs to be lanced!!!


13 posted on 03/13/2017 9:11:51 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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Dem: Congress Should ‘Educate’ The Rest Of America On Importance Of ‘Sacred’ DC

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14 posted on 03/13/2017 9:13:22 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Didn't Thomas Jefferson warn against this sort of thing?

Goodness.

15 posted on 03/13/2017 9:13:25 AM PDT by KC_Lion ("We must put our citizens first. Only then will we Make America Great Again."- Donald Trump)
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Break up the federal agencies and send some of them into the heartland. Thin out the vipers nest of lobbyists. There is just too much in DC relying on Gov. Growth.
16 posted on 03/13/2017 9:14:44 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Mercat

“And probably one to Margaret Sanger.”

The Smithsonian already took care of that for us.

Smithsonian Refuses to Remove Margaret Sanger Statue

http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/22/smithsonian-refuses-to-remove-margaret-sanger-statue-we-dont-care-she-was-a-eugenicist/


17 posted on 03/13/2017 9:15:53 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Washington, D.C. --- You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

18 posted on 03/13/2017 9:17:01 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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Yes, show the People which part of the Constitution mandates a bloated Bureaucracy that defies the role of the individual States and the Rights of the American Citizenry.
19 posted on 03/13/2017 9:17:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Wyatt's Torch
--- and it is exactly like ancient Rome.
20 posted on 03/13/2017 9:18:12 AM PDT by SanchoP
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