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March 26, 2007
Republicans kill DC voting rights
Another big thing that happened last week was the Republican party's move to kill DC voting rights. There are many people that have written extensively on the subject at this point, but I wanted to give my general thoughts. I hate to admit it, but I think they may actually right on this one, the way they are doing it is unconstitutional. Luckily I already wrote up a solution to that problem a long time ago, so just put this up instead. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) makes me bust a gut, every time she says that the American people will be outraged to learn what the GOP is doing. They've been victimizing the entire country, you think that anyone is going to be startled to learn that they've disenfranchised everyone in DC?? Please, we weren't all born yesterday, we know what the GOP is up to, we just can't do anything about it at the moment. When "No taxation without Representation" was coined by Reverend Jonathan Mayhew we were under the boot of a tyrannical king, conservatives should remember that Americans don't have much stomach for tyrants and get out of the way, making sure that they don't end up under the foot of history. Americans are awakening to the reality that their principals have been trampled on by fools and cowards. We are going to return our principals no matter how conservatives want things to go.
Read more over at MyDD.
Posted by Jamison at March 26, 2007 11:37 AM
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Don't know how I missed your proposed bill last year. :) The only problem I see with it is that it's too logical. Sadly, things that logical and straight-forward don't live long in DC. :)
This was the debate on This Week yesterday. Did you catch any of it?
Posted by: katherine at March 26, 2007 1:33 PM
Nope, I usually catch the highlights from NPR on the commute home. That's why ENH made me laugh. She sounded so righteously outraged, and rightly so, but seriously like anyone was surprised.
I purposed a whole series of Constitutional Amendments because I was in the mood. I even added in Term Limits to the Constitution.
Posted by: Jamison at March 26, 2007 2:39 PM