Monday, November 13, 2006

Other happy people

Sadly not everyone in the country realizes that the residents of Washington, D.C. do not have voting representation in Congress. There is a Representative but the Repugs say she can't vote. Washington has about 500,000 residents - about the same as Vermont and Wyoming but they do not have anyone to vote on their behalf in Congress. And, in fact, under Repug rule, Washingtonians are subjected to micromanagement from some in Congress.

Imagine if you, in your state, passed some laws that benefited your residents and Congress said - Nope - not allowed to have that law - you must do as we tell you...... Well that's what it's like living in D.C. with Repugs at the helm.....

So the other happy people these days are those half million D.C. residents who will now at least a voting Rep and the probability of sanity in the heads of the committees that oversee D.C.

Back to my first point - I know some otherwise smart people who have asked me how I owned a car when I lived in D.C. - "How do you register a car there? It's not a state." DUH - like anywhere else - you deal with the Motor Vehicle Bureau...

Others have said they don't know why D.C. residents complain about not having Senators or a voting Rep as they are part of Maryland and vote there! Another DUH!

And how about those lists of states in some computer menus...they do not list D.C. more DUH...

So to my friends in D.C. - I know you are happy right now and glad to be out from under the thumbs of the repugs....

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