04-22-2021, 10:46 PM
Waldman:
Opinion: The 5 dumbest GOP arguments against D.C. statehood
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...statehood/
1. D.C. doesn’t have enough people (Rep. Nancy Mace, moron)
2. D.C. has the wrong kind of people. (Sen. Tom Cotton, racist)
3. D.C. is corrupt and mismanaged. (Rep. Scalise, asshat)
4. The Framers didn’t want D.C. to be a state. (said no one ever, if Article 1 of the Constitution is to be believed)
5. D.C. statehood is just a Democratic power grab. (every Republican, also simultaneously unaware each state previously admitted to the Union did so at the behest of the majority Party at the time. See also, Richardson for yet another history lesson/spanking: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ns/598243/
It’s worth reading Waldman’s assessment just for the dripping irony and hypocrisy of it all.
Opinion: The 5 dumbest GOP arguments against D.C. statehood
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...statehood/
1. D.C. doesn’t have enough people (Rep. Nancy Mace, moron)
2. D.C. has the wrong kind of people. (Sen. Tom Cotton, racist)
3. D.C. is corrupt and mismanaged. (Rep. Scalise, asshat)
4. The Framers didn’t want D.C. to be a state. (said no one ever, if Article 1 of the Constitution is to be believed)
5. D.C. statehood is just a Democratic power grab. (every Republican, also simultaneously unaware each state previously admitted to the Union did so at the behest of the majority Party at the time. See also, Richardson for yet another history lesson/spanking: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ns/598243/
It’s worth reading Waldman’s assessment just for the dripping irony and hypocrisy of it all.