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OMG IT’S FOR REAL THIS TIME? Congratulations, Washington D.C., it looks like you’re finally going to get a full vote in Congress! But is it really worth having to make a trip to the DMV to get non-clownish license plates? [NYT]


5:41 PM on Thu February 26 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Texan Bulldoggette says at 5:43 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Will Marion Berry be recovered in time to take his rightful place within this august body? (Because who else in DC has done more to put DC on the map & is, therefore, worthy of this seat?)

  2. qwerty42 says at 5:43 pm, February 26th, 2009

    so will the Nationals be renamed the Senators?

  3. BeatrixSlaughter says at 5:49 pm, February 26th, 2009

    But, but, but…the CONSTITUTION! Will nobody think of the founding fathers?

  4. OzoneTom says at 5:49 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Marion Barry for DC Representative!

  5. OzoneTom says at 5:50 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: Ha! You beat me!

  6. qwerty42 says at 5:53 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: how about governor-general?

  7. AngryBlakGuy says at 5:56 pm, February 26th, 2009

    …at this very moment, Norm Coleman is changing his state of residence!

  8. Kenneth the NBC Governor says at 5:56 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Shouldn’t Nate Silver have predicted this and called his little election website 540.com?

  9. A little White-Out over the “out” should fix that license plate right up.

  10. AngryBlakGuy says at 5:57 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: …Gilbert Arenas? Its not like he is doing anything this season.

  11. Neon Trotsky says at 6:06 pm, February 26th, 2009

    THIS IS DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST PUERTO RICO, AMERICAN SAMOA, US VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND GUAM!!!!! WHY DO THE DEMOCRATS HATE OUR TERRITORIES?!

  12. Calling young unemployed Bush appointees: now is your chance to be a real politician. I’m sure you’ll appeal to the urban/suburban hip-hop GOP generation on the streets in DC.

  13. Hedley Lamar says at 6:09 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Don’t worry, they’ll lose the right to vote as soon as the
    pendulum swings repug again.

  14. Once DC gets a seat in the House, won’t they be able to argue on constitutional grounds that they are being deprived of their full rights by not having seats in the Senate?

  15. droopydog says at 7:06 pm, February 26th, 2009

    It violates the constitution, but who cares? The libs ripped it up 80 years ago.

  16. droopydog: Ok, I’ll bite. Quick, in 100 words or less, justify how you can ask all the residents of a major American city to pay federal taxes, be subject to Selective Service and every other federal law on the books, yet not have representation in the legislative branch?

  17. Still no vote in the Senate, though, so the license plates can stay, yay!

  18. So Stephen Colbert gets a key to the city from Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Utah gets a new Republican Member of Congress to cancel out her new vote, because well, you know, liberal, black, blah blah blah. Can’t have *that.* Next stop: STATEHOOD!

  19. masterdebater says at 7:37 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Sure they want the vote NOW, but what will it be down the line? I think it’s a slippery slope.

  20. President Beeblebrox says at 7:55 pm, February 26th, 2009

    droopydog: Piyush, go fetch me some scones, there’s a good lad.

  21. Unindicted Co-Conspirator says at 8:01 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Dave J.:
    The Ghost of Theodore Bilbo says: “Because they’re black!”
    Not that I agree with that!

  22. recharged95 says at 8:29 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Wow, with all the rich politicans, CEOs, and lawyers, DC can now secede from the Union, make the USA pay infrastructure and import taxes (since all those control centers are connected in the district), and keep all those treasures at the Smithsonian.

    See ya later suckas…

  23. Neon Trotsky says at 8:53 pm, February 26th, 2009

    Dave J.: Strictly speaking, giving D.C. a voting member of the House of Representatives is not Constitutional. Article I, Section 2 states, “The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States.” This probably should be done in the form of an Amendment to the Constitution, though I support the general idea.

    That said, nobody in power has been a strict constitutionalist since the 18th century, well before “The libs” existed in any modern sense of the term…

  24. Neon Trotsky says at 8:56 pm, February 26th, 2009

    droopydog: Yeah! Damn libs, destroying our Constitution in 1929, when there was a Republican president in office and a large Republican majority in both Houses of Congress!

  25. Neon Trotsky:

    Virginia and Massachusetts are Commonwealths and not technically States, like The State of Michigan for instance.

    But the cool thing is they could very well become The State of Columbia, and cocaine will flow from both taps.

    Our capital will be Washington, Columbia. With a Hussein in the White House, too! Love it!

  26. DangerousLiberal says at 7:57 am, February 27th, 2009

    droopydog: Well, it was 8 years ago, and it was conservatives, and they ripped it up for use as toilet paper. But you got some of the facts right: the first letter of the sentence was capitalized, and it ended with a period. Bonus!

  27. DangerousLiberal says at 8:03 am, February 27th, 2009

    Neon Trotsky:

    Art I sec 5: “Section 5. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members.” (OK, that was really weak. Let’s just amend the Constitution.)

    MGBYG:
    “Four of the constituent states of the United States officially designate themselves Commonwealths: Kentucky,Massachusetts,Pennsylvania,and Virginia.This designation, which has no constitutional impact, emphasizes that they have a ‘government based on the common consent of the people’” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(United_States). That’s OK–I was stoned half way through my HS civics class too.

    If it’s good enough for Wikipedia, it’s good enough for me.

  28. Ottawa Centre, the riding that takes in the Parliament Buildings, Supreme Court, &c, is represented in the House of Commons by a socialist from the NDP. So there.

  29. WadISay: Hm, no, you could just white-out ‘with representation’ entirely and you’d pretty much hit it right.

  30. I just read about that here…

    http://muckbreaker.blogspot.com

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