Posted on 01/10/2021 7:03:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Sen. Joe Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, is open to adding two new states — the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
The liberal push to add the District and Puerto Rico comes as Democrats see adding U.S. Senate seats from those jurisdictions as providing them with a firmer grasp on control of Congress.
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Not certain, but I believe the attempt to make D.C. a state would be a violation of the U.S. Constitution - not that that matters anymore.
I would grant Hawaii independence in exchange for the naval base at Pearl Harbor. Native Hawaiians hate the Americans anyway so what’s the point?
How does a state that votes for Donald J Trump continue to vote for this man?
PORK...He Brings It!
How many votes in the Senate does it take to add a state?
Seriously, DC statehood ought to include repeal of the 23rd amendment as a prerequisite inasmuch as it gave the district special status. Not that the constitution matters anymore.
Can my home county get statehood while we're at it? We have more land area than Rhode Island and are the burial place of General Arthur St. Clair, one of the presidents of the Continential Congress.
Yeah, but they will just add a few more zeros to the left of the decimal point. When you are 30 TRILLION dollars in debt - what’s a few more bucks on the federal “pie plate?”
And eliminating the filibuster and eliminating the first and second Amendments and packing the court, and packing lindsy.....ok, its getting late.
I believe the call for DC Statehood for is a lot of pandering. It has been tried before. I say we make a trade. Split California into two States for DC and PR. I do not think this is a serious threat the next year will be hell. They have to get all their pet projects through before January 2022 and the mid terms. They cannot waste time on something as contentious and time consuming as a Statehood issue.
Ratification alone will be hard to get and require a lot of horse trading and politicking.
I don’t believe you can just make DC a state , though they really should shrink it down to just the government buildings and let the residents vote in another state’s election. As far as Puerto Rico goes...they have voted against it in the pass.
Why not just divide Texas in 20 smaller states? they we could get 40 senates from red districts ?
Who’s gonna step in and stop them? The SCOTUS?
Once they can dial in whatever vote they want in elections, what difference does it make?
It can only benefit Democrats anyway.
Told you he’s evil.
Well of course he is. LOL
And so it begins. The Dems have decided this is their time to insure one-party rule at the national level.
First they’ll add states to take over the Senate, then eliminate the filibuster. Then they’ll turn the Supreme Court into a branch of the DNC. Next they’ll try to spread their radical alterations to how we hold elections to the entire country via federal legislation that violates the 10th Amendment. All real safeguards protecting election integrity will be removed everywhere as they were recently in several states.
At that point, the authoritarian Democrats will take undisputed control of the House and elections will now be entirely irrelevant except at the local and occasionally state level. And the shocking thing is they’ve been extremely out in the open about all these moves towards authoritarianism.
If DC gains statehood, what will they call it? “Washington” will have to go because he was a slave owner, and “Columbia” is named for Columbus, the genocidal Nazi. They will probably call teh new state Black Lives Matter! or something like that.
Then we’ll all be fighting the NYC subway rars for that piece of pizza.
Guess I’ll be making a detour to the local hardware store on Monday, so to purchase every 50-state version of Old Glory they have on the shelf. Making D.C. as a state would be unconstitutional. An P.R. is nothing but and island of freeloading parasites, who have given nothing but grief to this nation.
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