...for those interested. :D
Posted on 12/26/2012 10:27:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Huffington Post reports that a bill to move the District of Colombia toward statehood has been introduced in the Senate. Buzzfeed says “the 51st state would be called New Columbia” and be granted full voting representation in the Senate and House. A group called DC Vote has launched a White House petition to call on President Obama for support. It is indeed time that D.C. voters become fully enfranchised as the 51st state. But it is also high time that the nation’s capital be moved from its quaint antiquarian, Eastern enclave to the center of our country. Louisville would be the perfect spot for a “new District of Columbia.”
In earliest days, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were correctly viewed as the centers of America: they were the benign centers of countervailing regions, nominally North and South, with dividing overviews — industrialization and manufacturing in Hamilton’s North, provincial agrarianism in Jefferson’s South.
--snip--
My suggestion: a supercommittee of governors and former governors to discuss the issues of Western relevance and state sovereignty: Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, who compared California to Athens and Sparta in his inaugural address, Rick Perry of Texas who questions why a state with a surplus must support those in deep and growing debt, Sarah Palin, who singularly rose Tea Party issues of heartland America to relevance, Butch Otter of Idaho, Jodi Rell of Connecticut, who with Schwarzenegger challenged the feds on auto emissions, and Nikki Haley of South Carolina...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
...for those interested. :D
...for those interested. :D
...for those interested. :D
Keep it where it is. Change the people who run the place.
How about we just prohibit people from actually living IN DC. The District will have no permanent residents and thus all people will be representing somewhere OUTSIDE the beltway.
If anything we create congressional dorms where elected officials and TEMP staffers may live. However, they must have a permanent residence OUTSIDE the beltway.
term limits FOR STAFFERS and bureacrats.
No more careers as middle and upper government workers.
Maryland is already almost impossible for Republicans, they can’t handle having DC too, there would be zero hope of ever electing a decent Governor. We can’t do that to them.
Of course they cannot be a state either, we cannot allow 2 more rat Senators.
Freeper Auho2orepublican has suggested the creation of a new state with DC and it’s liberal suburbs in both MD and VA, that would make those states more Republican to make up for making a new democrat state.
That is not being considered by anyone, unless it is DC must stay as it currently is, a Federal district with no voting rights in Congress. Too bad so sad, I don’t really care about a few hundred thousand democrats not having representation, as a Republican in Chicago I don’t have any either.
With all the votes they steal across the country it’s perfectly justifiable to deny them voting rights in DC. I would have strongly opposed giving them 3 electoral votes for President. God forbid that should ever be the difference in an election.
Exactly right. Term limits for members of Congress would be of limited use as long as staffers and bureaucrats could remain as a power behind the throne.
Your ideas are interesting.
The article’s idea however are just bizarre.
They already enacted half your idea. DC was once 100 square miles on both sides of the Potomac. They retroceded the VA side back to them in the 19th century (which is now Alexandria and Arlington).
The District isn’t too big to begin with. They wouldn’t alter Maryland politics in a major way. Virginia would go blue for all eternity. DC was carved out of Maryland, give it back to Maryland and let those leftists carry the tax burden for the socialists that live there
Local tradition holds that Columbus was considered as the location for the national capital. However, when controversy arose about the placement of the capital in 1789 and again in 1812, Columbus did not exist as a town. Congress again raised the subject in 1846 and 1869, but Congressional records do not mention Columbus. Owing to the significant size of the Columbia plot, someone had ambition for Columbus. Whether or not it was considered as the national capital may never be known.[2]
It’s 600000 people, 90% of them democrats and most of them poor. That is too much a burden for the already beleaguered taxpayers of Maryland, and it would alter the state politically. It would go from very very very hard to win to impossible to win. That is not fair to the people of Maryland, have some consideration for the good people trapped in an already terrible state.
I did not say give it to Virginia I said leave it as it is, part of no state with no representation, it deserves none unless it’s part of some deal that helps the people, like making a new state from DC plus it’s leftist suburbs in both Maryland and Virginia, freeing those states from those burdens.
DC is much too small. It would be the only state with an overwhelming parasite majority.
Retrocession is the answer. The sooner the better.
Silent enim leges inter arma.
For those who haven’t read it, here’s my seven-year-old post on creating a State of New Columbia that combines DC and its liberal suburbs in Va and MD. http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/2005/08/fair-and-reasonable-alternative-to-dc.html?m=1
If I were to rewrite it today, I would add Charles County, MD, and maybe Prince William County, VA, to the new state.
This subject seems to come up a lot for an arcane issue.
Little Charles has sure gone to shite. Dole won it!
Prince William, why not, if the election is close it goes big democrat now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.