{"id":8133,"date":"2009-02-24T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2009-02-24T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T18:20:58","slug":"dc-to-get-congressional-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8133","title":{"rendered":"DC to get Congressional vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate voted to take up the issue of giving the District of Columbia voting membership in the House of Representatives according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

District residents have waited roughly 200 years for full voting rights. The legislation would give the Democratic-lean District one vote and the Republican-leaning Utah another House vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s not true at all really – since there’s no one in the District who is 200 years old and lost their vote because of districting and every single one of the District’s residents live in DC voluntarily fully knowing they’d have no representation by choosing to move there. By moving about 5 miles in any direction, anyone who lives in the District could get voting representation in Congress if it was really that important to them.<\/p>\n

Joe Lieberman contributes to the confusion;<\/p>\n

“A grave injustice has been done to the residents of the District simply because they live in the United States capital,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent and chief sponsor of the Senate bill. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, they did it to themselves by choosing to live in the District, Joe. Typical liberal thinking that everything happens in the context that exists in time warp.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, argued that a bill granting the District congressional representation is sure to face a legal challenge if passed.<\/p>\n

“The Senate should not pass legislation that we believe is unconstitutional,” Mr. Kyl said. “We should not pass the buck to the courts.”<\/p>\n

Critics say the bill violation of Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, which states “representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states.”<\/p>\n

The District is not considered a state and is largely overseen by Congress. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what the Democrats do on a regular basis; let the courts decide stuff that might take a little backbone to settle. Why don’t they make an amendment to the Constitution? Because they might lose the vote when it comes to a consensus from the States.<\/p>\n

The only people to whom it really matters are the DC politicians. The people have been fooled into believing they’re powerless because they don’t have a vote when billions of dollars pour into the District’s coffers (otherwise known as A Dark Hole) without that vote. The only thing this does is employ one more useless politician and one more useless staff in the District. <\/p>\n

The last time DC thought they were going to get representation in Congress in the 1990s, they elected Jesse Jackson as a straw-Senator. Jackson doesn’t even claim DC as his home yet the clueless morons of the District elected him to represent them nonetheless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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