[Art in Idaho]

In November, the American people told Congress to Stop Obama. Now that they've shown they won't do that, and, in fact are going out of their way to facilitate him, America has a situation like none other in its history.

Oh wait, there was one other time when there was tyranny and taxation without representation.

[gleeaikin]

Actually there is another tyranny and taxation that is going on continually in Washington, DC. Even though the residents of DC pay full federal taxes and have more population than Wyoming and Vermont, they do not have final control even over the tax money collected by the city from their own citizens. Last election about 70% of the voters favored an initiative to legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana by people 21 and over, but Republicans in Congress don’t want the city to acknowledge this or even pass laws taxing it or providing addiction treatment or other related expenses. In the late 90’s the city also collected signatures for and against Medical Marijuana, but for 10 years Congress would not even allow the city to count them. When they did, MM was favored by a large majority. A year ago when the government shut down, Congress did not want to let DC spend their own tax money for basic city services. The Mayor defied Congress and continued to collect the garbage, and provide other basic services at the threat of possibly being arrested.

So I hope you will contact your Congresscritters and tell them that this too is what our founding fathers fought for and they should be ashamed to treat 650,000 people that way.