www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbv8LRVRTaA

Minus the teabag part, this video is very well done. In all honesty, given the display of contempt by congress for the American people -- putting a teabag in an envelope won’t do much bit of good, they simply won’t care.

One thing I’d like to point out quickly is the common misconception people have when someone mentions “republican government”. Oh boy, out come the can of worms now!

“republican” in this sense of the term does NOT imply the Republican Party. Let me say that again, it does NOT MEAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. So many people seem to hear republican and automatically we start having hideous flashbacks to the “Bush era” and such. I’m talking republican as in republican form of government. Despite what most people think, this country was NOT designed, laid out or built on the premise of being a democracy. Democracy is what Europe has, and look where it’s gotten them today.

Our republic was built as separate nation-states where each state maintains its own local governing body responsible for laws and governance applicable to that particular state. If read and understood as intended, “united states” really isn’t supposed to be a bunch of states which stand united under a central authority. There is nothing in the constitution whatsoever which grants any power at all to congress or the president really to do very much at all in terms of meddling with the affairs of individual states.

Don’t ever forget people, the constitution exists to tell the federal government what it CAN DO and ONLY what it CAN DO (Article 1, Section 8):

Section 8: The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

AND THAT’S IT!
Another piece of the constitution is to tell the states what they CANNOT DO.

Anything not granted to congress as defined above, is unconstitutional; and it really is as simple as that people!

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Unbelievable: DC Voting Rights Bill Clears Senate (FOX News)

Why are you wasting time and money on this crap? Seriously people, you already control the executive branch, you control the house AND senate, your boy in the oval office runs the census bureau; responsible for districting and re-districting and you’re wasting time on this to gain ONE!!!111one! single solitary democratic seat in congress (because there’s no way the American people would have ever guessed that DC is largely democrat-voters).

That would be unconstitutional. I thought you people we elected to run our senate are EDUCATED?

Read: United States Constitution Article 1 Section 2

If you’re too inept to follow a link, here’s the text:

Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

Find me anywhere in the above text which defines Washington, DC as a state or specifically references Washington, DC (district) as having the power to elect representatives, and I will buy you a steak. Better yet, look at the whole of the constitution and find me where it says DC gets votes in congress ANYWHERE and you’ll get a steak AND a lobster.

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