D.C. Voting Rights

It's time for the Senate to debate the bill on the floor.

Monday, September 17, 2007; Page A18

SUPPORTERS OF D.C. voting rights have to get 60 votes to advance the bill to the Senate floor for debate and a vote. This cloture motion is technical, but how the senators vote is entirely about principle. It is simply not right that U.S. citizens who live in the nation's capital are denied basic representation in their government. That a procedural gambit would be used to prevent a redressing of this wrong is inexcusable.

That the bill was fathered by a Republican member of Congress from Virginia -- Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, who is horrified by the 200-year injustice of D.C. disenfranchisement -- further burnishes its credentials.

Nuff said?

ITS NOT A STATE! If they are concerned about "taxation without representation," give them a perk. No federal income tax. If they would rather vote, add the citizens of DC to the rolls in Maryland. Gilmore or Cantor!

h/t From On High

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