Thread: Democrats Pull D.C. Voting Rights Act

Democrats Pull D.C. Voting Rights Act
by Jed Babbin
Posted 03/03/2009 ET
Updated 03/03/2009 ET


The patently unconstitutional bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House of Representatives was pulled off the House calendar because -- according to one House Republican leadership source -- they feared that the so-called Blue Dog Democrats would not support it.

The bill was patently unconstitutional because under Article 1, Section 2, only states have representatives, and D.C. isn’t a state. (That idea is reinforced by the XXIII Amendment, under which D.C. voters are allowed to vote in presidential elections, and thus appoint electors to the Electoral College, “…equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State….â€

Congratulations to the NRA for holding the Blue Dogs’ paws to the fire.

Wooooooo Hooooooo "Go NRA" hold the Blue Dog's in check