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2020-02-18 Home Front: Politix
Should Washington, D.C., become the 51st state?
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Posted by Fred 2020-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Not no but hell no.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-18 00:51||   2020-02-18 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The Constitution is the Law you scumbags.
Quit making shit up and pulling it out of you ass.
Posted by newc 2020-02-18 01:09||   2020-02-18 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The precedent has already been established: District of Columbia Retrocession in 1846 returning the lands south of the Potomac to Virginia. They have been various plans to transfer the populated districts back to Maryland...

Too simple for the demagogues in the Democratic Party -- where's the graft is simple?
Posted by magpie 2020-02-18 02:19||   2020-02-18 02:19|| Front Page Top

#4 DC should revert to being a part of the Potomac delta.
Posted by 3dc 2020-02-18 05:36||   2020-02-18 05:36|| Front Page Top

#5 looking for two more Democrat Senators...
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-18 06:07||   2020-02-18 06:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Return the non-governmental land and authority to Maryland. The whole concept was so that no state would have undo influence on the nescient national government that was to be established. I think we can take it that today its more like the state governments fear undo influence from the national government.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-18 06:27||   2020-02-18 06:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't we simply remove the art and important artifacts and nuke that sewer from space?
Posted by Cesare 2020-02-18 08:24||   2020-02-18 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #7: Can't we simply remove the art and important artifacts and nuke that sewer from space?

While the Orange Man is at Mara Largo, I recommend a harmless, Corona Virus clone be discovered near Dupont Circle.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-18 08:31||   2020-02-18 08:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Come on you two, don't you like NY mafia movies?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-18 08:32||   2020-02-18 08:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't the Dems propose this bill every year? It sure seems that way.
Posted by Raj 2020-02-18 09:16||   2020-02-18 09:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll agree, as long as California and New York get demoted to territories with an presidential appointed governor.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-02-18 11:17||   2020-02-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 That's the problem with getting up late on the West Coast. Alaska Paul already said what I was thinking.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-18 12:21||   2020-02-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

#13 I vote for walling it off ala Escape From New York and housing criminals there. it wouldn't change much except for the additional of a yuge, luxurious wall
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-02-18 12:48||   2020-02-18 12:48|| Front Page Top

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