Local Politics

[muck_a_luck]

I really should stop listening to the local news when it comes up on the radio.

The DC city counsel is about to approve a law recognizing same-sex marriages legally performed in other jurisdictions.

The Congress of the United States is getting geared up to strike down the law.

This is on the heels of the Congress' interference with local gun laws earlier this year.

I don't care where you fall on the issues. What the hell happened to self-rule? Why do the Senators of South Carolina and Texas and Massachusettes get to stick their stupid heads into the laws of the city of Washington? Within the constraints of the Constitution (and that's the hang up here, isn't it?!), locally elected politicians representing their own consituents should be allowed to govenrn the people who elected them. Play out your petty infighting in your own electoral districts and inflict them on the people you elected you. The District has enough problems of its own without having to deal with your baggage.

For those of you not from around here, the DC license plates carry the motto: "Taxation Without Representation."

Dude.

Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

It's because DC isn't a state so it doesn't have the same level of self-government. DC isn't a state because it was originally meant to just be the country's capital city, and the founding idiots fathers didn't want any one state to have undue influence. That's part of why Maryland was never allowed to succeed, so that DC wouldn't exist surrounded by Confederate states. (And yet Maryland calls itself the Free State, which never ceases to piss me off.)

The founding fathers never expected anyone to live in DC beside the president and his contingent. It's a problem.

Sorry, I got the habit of the history lecturing from my Dad. *facepalm*

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

*snorks*

Yes, I'm aware of the source of the problem. It still ticks me off. And I don't even live there. This is why I stopped reading the letters to the editor and why I don't listen to call-in/listener-participation type radio shows. And why I should really not listen to local news of places where I don't even live. It's not my business and it just gives me high bloodpressure.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Sorry. *facepalm*

I hate this area. The drivers don't signal and the weather is bipolar and fucks with my joints (and yes, I know I'm too young to be saying that, but it's true) and all they talk about on the radio is the stupid part of politics and the subway system is complete shit. It's always been my intention to get back up to New York eventually. Hell, had things gone the way I wanted them to, I'd be graduating from NYU right now.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

Frankly, as DC is neither a state nor a territory, I don't believe they should be able to make law there at all. Federal law should apply, naturally, but I don't see any Constitutional grounds for any other legislation at all.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

DC is governed by Congress, and Washington is a city in DC, so maybe Congress provided for city governance in the District? Dunno. It *does* exist, so one presumes some basis, seeing as it is not a small place and I'm sure *somebody* would have noticed if what they were doing wasn't kosher. :p Haha! Something for you to do while convalescing! Write to various parties about how there should be no city counsel! You should take drugs first, obviously.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well... Congress has a tendency to ignore parts of the Constitution that are inconvenient to them, such as the part that reads "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."