The House Oversight Committee’s markup session on H.R. 51, the bill aiming to make the District of Colombia a state, on Wednesday veered into a bizarre argument over Georgia Republicans’ new voting restriction law.
Statehood for D.C., also known as The Last Plantation, is a no-brainer. Naturally, the brainless will oppose it any way possible.
Nothing to see here, folks. Please move along.
So which slave State is being proposed to be added to maintain balance? Isn’t that the rules, one for one?
“I would just like to say there is nothing racist about the bill that was just passed in Georgia,” Hice declared.
Raskin pointed out that he hadn’t said anything about race.
That had to have stung more than a little.
Under the law that admitted Texas to the Union was a provision that could allow it to be divided into five states.
Arguing with Jamie Raskin will demonstrate why you shouldn’t argue with Jamie Raskin.
Why not just combine one of the Southern states? We could glue WV back on VA.
Now do Puerto Rico.
And let’s finally end colonialism and bring in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
“House Panel On DC Statehood Bill Ruptures Into Squabble Over GA Voting Restrictions”
Of course it did. Currently, it’s “Anything Democrats Are Doing In The Presence Of Republicans Ruptures Into Squabble Over GA Voting Restrictions”. It could even be “_________ Ruptures Into Squabble Over GA Voting Restrictions”.
Article IV of the Constitution prohibits merging or subdividing states without the consent of all the legislatures involved.
West Virginia showed how to do that. Created their own legislature, got Lincoln to buy off that they were the “legit” legislature for Virginia, and proceeded to split themselves off.
But if some or all of those legislatures become voluntarily intoxicated …
“Why can’t you bring a bottle of water with you when you go and see there’s a six or seven hour line?” the Republican responded.
The fact that Rep. Hice can throw out this hypothetical and not realize immediately that any “voting problems” to be solved in Georgia were not the non-existent “voter fraud”, but instead that voters literally had to wait six or seven hours in line (!) shows just how removed from reality and drenched in contempt for democracy he and his party cohorts have become.
This is about D.C. PR. is a whole different deal.
“Why can’t you bring a bottle of water with you when you go and see there’s a six or seven hour line?” the Republican responded.
Clearly this repube doesn’t have an issue with a voter waiting in a “six or seven hour long line”, like folks do in third world countries
so in equity and fairness to accessing the voting franchise, all voters should be mandated to wait six or seven hours to vote, wouldn’t you agree Mr. Voter Suppressor (R, everywhere)? oh yeah, and they can bring their own water way up in Fargo, waiting six or seven hours to vote
If Texas ever secedes again, our West Virginia will be the Commonwealth of Interstate Highway Corridors Except Not the Ones in the Panhandle.
Shameless.
That disappeared when Texas was allowed back into the Union after the War of Northern Aggression.
Sorry, I made some formatting errors so I had to start over. I was trying to say that I hate to be “that guy” but, it is the District of Columbia; Colombia is a country in South America. Might want to proofread before hitting the “Post” button…
