This is an idea we should all get behind.
GOP Representative Andrew Clyde is putting in a bill to revoke the District of Columbia’s home rule and make Congress do its damn job of running the federal district as the Founders intended.
I don’t say this because I revere the Founders–I do–or because there is a deep principle to be defended. I say it because D.C. is run by idiots and it is an embarrassment to the country.
Also, it would drive a stake through the heart of any stupid plan to make D.C. a state. In fact, I would support a Constitutional Amendment barring the admittance of D.C. or Puerto Rico into the US as states out of sheer self-defense. The last thing we need is four more Democrat-lock Senate seats. It would be like packing the Supreme Court.
Scoop: GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde Plans To Give Control Of DC Back To Congress, Wants To Pave Over BLM Plaza
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— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) December 12, 2024
For Clyde the straw that broke the camel’s back is Black Lives Matter Plaza, which is right in front of the White House.
Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde is calling for Black Lives Matter (BLM) Plaza in Washington, D.C., to be paved over, the Daily Caller has learned. He also plans on introducing legislation to overturn home rule in the nation’s capital during the next Congress.
BLM Plaza, which was installed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser following the death of George Floyd in 2020, is across the street from the White House. Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to shut down the entire street, install barricades to prevent cars from driving down it and paint “Black Lives Matter” in massive yellow font on the pavement. The street’s name was also officially changed to Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest.
Congress can exercise authority over D.C. local affairs, according to the District Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17), and reviews all D.C. legislation before it can become law. Congress can change or even overturn D.C. legislation and also impose new laws on the district. This is something Clyde and other Republicans have been passionate about. He and Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty introduced a joint resolution of disapproval in 2023 to block the Washington, D.C., Council’s Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which would lower penalties for a number of violent criminal offenses, citing home rule. The Caller first broke the news on the legislation at the time.
The Plaza was so named in honor of drug addict and serial criminal George Floyd, and in its own way, endorses all the riots and violence that the left celebrated in the summer of 2020. Fundamentally, it was intended as a big F-you to ordinary Americans, accusing us all of being systemically racist.
It doesn’t belong anywhere in the capital.
Washington, D.C., is poorly run, an embarrassment to the country, and has proven its inability to responsibly govern itself.
You could say the same about the federal government, but that is a different story. Let’s stick to one group of sociopaths at a time.
I would go further than this–D.C. should be expanded back to its original borders, thus kicking out of Virginia all the worst and most liberal voters and disenfranchising the federal bureaucrats just as the Founders intended. After all, that was the goal of making D.C. a federal district in the first place.
I am 100% in favor of this measure, and might suggest that we expand the idea. Perhaps we should make all federal employees honorary citizens of the District, stripping them of Congressional representation and their ability to vote for federal offices.
I like that one too. Maybe I will send the idea along to my friends in Congress (of whom there are few, unfortunately. I shouldn’t keep calling them sociopaths, I guess).
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