When the Washington Times gets behind it
…you know we’ve got a chance. Never known as a progressive publication, the Times usually gets a what-what from the far right. So it’s a huge pump of the fist to see their commentary this morning (via DC Vote), “DC vote threshold” by Republicans Michael Steele and JC Watts.
Steele and Watts do a tidy summary of the issue in saying:
The difference between the District of Columbia and every other city and state in America is that Congress is the final arbiter on how the bills are paid and what laws shall govern the people of Washington. The citizens have absolutely no say on the floor of the Congress — through the vote of their duly elected representative — about the matters that directly affect the people born and raised in our nation’s capital. This is a blemish on our democracy and it must come to an end.
And cheers to their nice deconstruction of the Constitution argument against DC voting rights: “… the argument that a right granted by statute and rescinded by statute can now only be granted by a constitutional amendment fundamentally makes no sense.”