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Will Rogers is vindicated

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An seemingly unconstitutional deal to give the District of Columbia a voting representative by bribing the Republican caucus with the addition of congressional district in Utah has failed for the time being.

Says Politico:

House Democrats pulled a bill to grant voting rights to Washington, D.C., after Republicans offered a motion that would repeal the gun ban for the District.

The move is a clear signal that Democrats have lost control of House floor after minority Republicans presented the Democratic majority with a politically unpalatable motion that their conservative members would be forced to support for fear of angering the gun rights community.

Read on.

As someone who owned a house and lived in DC for twelve years (I lived in the Shaw-Cardozo neighborhood, look it up before making any assumptions about where I lived), I often found myself giving hosannas of praise whenever the House committee that oversaw the District would pull the plug on one scheme or another by the District’s politicians to stick their hand yet more deeply into my pocket.

But according to sources on the Hill, that isn’t the real story.

The unflappable Steny Hoyer was seen/heard yelling at staff on the floor of the House. Pelosi, according to our source, wasn’t even on the floor. Presumably she was cloistered somewhere with John Murtha thinking up new ways to ensure our defeat in Iraq. Poor Eleanor Holmes-Norton was seen standing silently. We don’t know what she was thinking but we can guess we couldn’t print it on a family website.

In the words of one of my platoon sergeants, "I've been to two goat ropes and a county fair and I ain't never seen nothing like this before."