I'm having one of those weeks where I'm scheduling business calls for when I'm walking from one place to another. Sorry it's so slow around these parts. I've also fallen behind on personal correspondence. Bear with me!
It's clever enough that the District voting rights bill's supporters have pledged that the bill, which is being debated even as I type, will not be a slippery slope toward acquiring two senators for the District. But if we get our House representative today, is there an action plan for getting our Senators tomorrow? If the Congress proffers a vote of no support for the reading of the Constitution that says that the District shouldn't have any congressional representation, then I really don't want to spend another day without full congressional representation. There's no halfsies in Congress. I have greater respect for Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) cockblock, however informed it may be by crypto-racism and pure partisan politicking, than I do for the view that we should be happy with this bone that they throw us.
UPDATE: Cloture invoked, 57–42. Here's to not paying federal taxes.
Posted by Kriston at September 18, 2007 1:47 PM