{"id":7,"date":"2004-11-05T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7"},"modified":"2004-11-05T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T21:23:35","slug":"the-51st-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"The 51st State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mike&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments.php?user=atrios&#038;comment=109957812092575364#1204568\">posts the following<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/really-bad-ideas-that-media-loves-and.html\">Atrios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDemocrats need to counter with a proposal to eliminate Wyoming&#8217;s congressional representation. Since DC has no voice in Congress, Dems argue that Wyoming shouldn&#8217;t either, since DC has more people. Also, DC is overwhelmingly Democratic, so it&#8217;s only fair that an overwhelmingly GOP state lose its voice. The real goal, of course, is to get two Senators and a Congressman from DC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Disenfranchising Wyoming would have the added benefit of pissing off Cheney when he retires and goes back home.  (I picture a retired Cheney like the dog in the David Lynch comic strip who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlynch.de\/chevalangry2.jpg\">is so angry he cannot move<\/a> and it makes me laugh, for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, what about a concerted push by Dems for DC statehood?  <a href=\"http:\/\/about.dc.gov\/statehood.asp\">This website<\/a> looks like a good place to start.  And we who are fortunate enough to be enfranchised American citizens could certainly petition our elected reps to take up the issue (again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mike&#8221; posts the following to Atrios: Democrats need to counter with a proposal to eliminate Wyoming&#8217;s congressional representation. Since DC has no voice in Congress, Dems argue that Wyoming shouldn&#8217;t either, since DC has more people. Also, DC is overwhelmingly Democratic, so it&#8217;s only fair that an overwhelmingly GOP state lose its voice. The real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 51st State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}