Your Thoughts about George Will's article today.

[usregimechange]

Conservatives are ranting about this:

WASHINGTON -- There they go again. House Democrats should at least provide variety in their venality. Last Wednesday, fresh from legislating new ethics regarding relations with lobbyists, they demonstrated that there are worse forms of corruption than those involving martinis and money.

They again voted to give the delegates to the House from Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, and the resident commissioner from Puerto Rico, the right to vote in the House when it is sitting as the "Committee of the Whole," which is how it sits almost all the time. It is in that status that almost all debate about and amending of legislation occur.

If these five votes decide the outcome of a vote in the Committee of the Whole, the matter at issue will be automatically revoted by the full House without those five participating. Still, these five faux members will have powers equal to those of real members on everything but final passage of bills, which often is more perfunctory than the process that leads to that. Almost always, all five delegates are Democrats. (Puerto Rico's current resident commissioner is the first Republican in 100 years.)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2007/01/28/one_person,_one_vote

What do you think?

[rusty charly]

1. oh, well!

them's the spoils.

[bullimiami]

2. His party and his politics have gone down the unpopularity crapper.

Hes just flailing around trying to find an issue.
If he was so worried about the constitution he might have spoken up against the flagrant abuses these last 6 years but now 'horrors' someone is getting more rights than they deserve!!!

[hippiechick]

3. Of course if they were all 's...

... he'd be telling any detractors to STFU.

Whiner. :freak:

[tabasco]

4. I thought we were spreading democracy.

A lot of people from those places are serving/have served in the military.

Why does George Will think democracy is so important in Iraq but not anywhere else?

[WI_DEM]

5. I've had no use for Will since his role in "debategate" in 1980

involving President Carter's stolen debate book and Will helping to coach Reagan and then writing this big wonderful review of Reagan's performance.

[annabanana]

6. If we pass laws that these people are bound by..

how can anyone argue against letting them vote?:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

7. Well, make Wyoming a territory again and give George something to whine about.

The District of Columbia has a larger population than Wyoming, yet Wyoming gets 2 Senators and a Representative (and THREE electoral votes) while D.C. doesn't. Fuck George. Both of them.

[Phredicles]

8. George Swill accusing anyone of venality is like

Rush Limbaugh accusing them of being impotent junkie blowhards.

I mean, never even mind his being married to a lobbyist; he's been one of the staunchest proponent of the notion that spending $$$$$$$$$ = speech, and that the present system of raising campaign funds is fine, since we as a country spend less on politics than on potato chips.:wtf:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Gee, hasn't he heard of "taxation without representation"?

I think all these areas pay some form of US taxes, don't they? Aren't they under US law? Then why shouldn't their representatives be able to vote? Our ancestors had a revolution for this very principle.