We need a constitutional amendment that requires the House of Representatives and the Senate to be moved every two years. At least part of the reason the capitol was located in D.C. was because it was a swamp and it was thought that the lawmakers wouldn't want to de camp there year round. With legislators meeting part-time, it was correctly thought that this would result in less federal mischief.
Additionally, our founders wisely believed that the principle of divided gov't also included preventing the capitol city from becoming a power unto itself.
As for examples of what happened when a nation's most populous and wealthy city also became its capitol, the founder had only to look to Europe. Inevitably, locating the capitol in London or Paris or Rome led to an unhealthy concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of those who controlled the capitol. This pattern has been repeated in most countries with the notable exception of the United States.
But now we see Washington D.C. becoming a metropolis until itself with 7 of the 10 most wealthy counties in the United States all being located around Washington D.C. So I say the time has come to neuter Washington D.C. and to start rotating the capitol among the fair states of this land. Do it by lottery or do it by vote, but however it is done, do it quickly before Washington D.C. devours the nation it is supposed to serve.
And soon the “tea party” will discover that their influence will be futile...and we are too far gone for the ballot box to make a difference.
Too bad...some of us said at the time that waiting for the next election, waiting for a knight in shining armor, or waiting for the massive, entrenched commie war room of MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia/DC Bureaucracies and the Judiciary to fail...is a lost cause.
But no one ever listens.