[Rodney King]

DC is a tiny little place, created for the purpose of housing the federal government. It doesn't need a baseball stadium.

[sgtbono2002]

DC is just as entitled to a Baseball stadium as any other city, but they already have one. DC stadium. If they want sky boxes put them on.
Having said that those businesse they are displacing ar mostly gaybars and displacing them is doing the city a favor.

[GAB-1955]

D.C. is one of the ten biggest cities of the U.S., and has a lot of industries that aren't directly related to the Federal government. The university concentration guarantees a lot of high-tech industries, for example. Why can't it have a privately-funded baseball stadium? Or, if the District wants to pay for it out of its own money, why not a publically-funded one? If you don't live there, you're not paying for it.

Washington is not a SYMBOL, nor is it a THEME PARK; it's a CITY where people live and work, and if we want to see a baseball game, and it's our money, let us.