Monday, September 14, 2009
DC Vote and the NRA
This article is interesting in that it sheds some light on the influence of the NRA on the DC Vote. The last version of the DC Vote bill was shot down due to last minute amendments loosening DC gun laws. Although this seems an absurd provision in a voting bill it nonetheless paved the way for conservative Democrats to reject the bill then and now to save their voting record in the upcoming elections. I also share the view presented in the article that this health care debate is truly shining a light on the ridiculousness that DC does not have a vote. In essence half a million people are being left out of this entire debate, which does not seem right.
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Just power (legitimate power) derives from the consent of the governed. More than 220 years after the Constitution was signed, over half a million residents of Washington DC are STILL Governed Without Consent by a legislature in which they are not represented (as were the colonists). Progress toward a More Perfect Union is exceedingly slow, but inexorable.
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