Posted on 03/26/2019 7:36:55 AM PDT by C19fan
Democrats are in charge of the House of Representatives once again, and so they have placed a bill on the House floor that would admit the District of Columbia to the Union as a state. The political motivations are clear. The new state for which they propose the unwieldy name State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth would be reliably Democratic, adding two senators and one representative to the partys totals.
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Puerto Rico is a corrupt, economic disaster. Not only should it never become a state, we should eject it as a territory and let it become independent.
JoMa
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