If I sound like a lib, ban me but when we have so many problems in this country why should I worry about Guam, Virgin Islands and of all places the Marianas Islands other than WW2 I think it's best know for the TV Show "Survivor"!!!
I'd cut them all loose including Puerto Rico, what have they done for me lately? And all the psycho commies in DC who proudly have their "No taxation with representation" I would make DC either a city in Virginia or Maryland. So they can quit bitching about not having 2 rat Senators and a rat Congressman.
If DC had 2 senators the Rats would win with 99.9% of the vote. I'd incorporate DC in Maryland, it'd give em some more criminals to add to the criminals in Baltimore but atleast they can't claim they don't have representation!!!
Sorry smoke break, blood pressure about to explode!!! Stop RINOS NOW!!!
Everything is made worse when you realize that Romney’s have been here for over a century, but NO Romney has ever served in our military.
DC as a state is unacceptable.
Putting DC in Virginia wouldn’t make any sense since it came from Maryland (the VA part was already returned). It would also seriously mess up a key state.
Giving it back to Maryland would make sense but that would take what is already a very very difficult state for Republicans and put it totally out of reach.
The best solution comes from Auh2orepublican, take the DC suburbs in MD and VA and join them with the District in a new state. It would be safe rat but VA would be made pretty much safe Republican and Maryland would become a swing state.
That will never happen because it requires too much effort and imagination for our gray-suited overlords and MD and VA won’t want to lose tax dollars.
Either the situation in DC will remain the same forever or it will be given a vote in the House (but not the Senate) by constitutional amendment, or given the vote by law (which would be unconstitutional and overturned). The latter happening might be necessary to precipitate the former.
Retrocession to Maryland would be a long term possibly also if Maryland would take them.
Puerto Rico needs to be studied to discern how it would vote if made a state (the conventional wisdom of “heavily rat” is disputed by Puerto Rican freepers.)
The other territories are far too small to ever be states.
Of course DC voting rights and the status of Puerto Rico are on almost nobody’s priority list