- D.C. VOTING RIGHTS BILL MOVES ALONG: Golly, now look at this, the latest D.C. voting rights bill — which would give one full House seat to Washington, D.C. and another to Utah, to appease Republicans — passed a preliminary Senate vote today, 62-34, opening it to a full floor debate. If it passes a final Senate vote (later this week-ish), then it will easily pass the House and be signed by Barack Obama. John McCain and many other Republicans object to the bill because it “could be the first step toward giving the District two senators,” which is not really a reason to vote against something. [AP]
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Only if Marion Barry ends up with a kidney from a Mormon. Then it’s even steven.
…geez, its not like we fought a “WAR” or something like that over “Taxation without Representation” or anything?!?! Right?
Senators Eleanor Holmes (“I really, really meant to pay those taxes!”) Norton and Marion (if he survives) Barry, welcome to the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body!
Will DC residents have to have their ancestors baptized by proxy?
How about Wyoming gives one of its Senators to DC and we call it a day?
“could be the first step toward giving the Democrats two senators,”
If Oklahoma gets representation, it’s only fair.
isn’t it fun to see how concerned the republicans are over the constitution all of a sudden?
Wait, they’re considering giving Utah a full voting seat in the Congress? That can’t be right. Would we have to acknowledge it like a real state, and invite it to all the state cookouts?
Oh great — so we’re giving the Utah GOP a way to kick Buttars out of their state legislature? Some Missouri Compromise this turned out to be.
Senator Jesse Jackson and Marion Barry. Who wouldn’t want that duo?
turdsandwich happy. turdsandwich buy home tomorrow in DC; now feel even better about putting down roots in the capital city.
And, y’know, this is the perfect example of how fucking small-minded/shamelessly politically calculating the right can be. There are philosophical principles regarding individual and collective rights that undergird the Constitution and made it necessary for the document to be written in the first place. Now, we have the opportunity to expand the reach of those philosophical principles, and all we hear is some weak bullshit about the Constitution that’s serving as window dressing for a desire to preserve the balance of power (what’s left of the balance, at least) in the Senate.
*breathes*
In the year eleventeen hundred and heighty-twenty four, President George P. Clinton annexed by manifest proclaimation that land which lieth betweenst the Potoamac and the Assachocateague rivers “for general use as a Capital, may it please the
Oh, I give up. History is too hard -
Well, Wyoming and Rhode Island both have two Senators. DC having two Senators makes about as much sense.
[re=250299]shortsshortsshorts[/re]:
“could be the first step toward giving the Democrats two senators,”
…Because spending time and effort to persuade citizens to a republican point of view is too hard?
[re=250299]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Democratic and Black; even more terrifying to the GOP.
The constitution says that only states getting voting representatives and senators, therefore, its unconstitutional to give DC any and congress has no such power to do so.
If we’re really serious about giving DC voting representation, then we need to make DC a state. The constitution gives us a process for this known as the amendment process.
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