What A Bunch Of Effing Idiots!!!!!

[FirstClass]

Anybody gonna answer my question? Please....

 

[ylexot]

What more do you want to know?

 

[Tonio]

I can't believe they are dumb enough as to have elected this criminal AGAIN!!!!

Don't be distracted by his starring role in the "Biatch set me up" cocaine sting. Reprehensible, sure, but far worse is Barry's career as a charlatan and cronyist. He's a master at manipulating popular rage and resentment for his own gain. Like a lottery or a slot machine, he promises something for nothing. While mayor, he treated the D.C. government as an employment agency.</NITF> During this election, Barry proposed massive new city subsidies for housing without so much as a syllable about how to pay for those subsidies.

 

[aps45819]

I think that as long as the ijits in DC keep electing Barry, congress will laugh at the posibility of home rule.

 

[Tonio]

I think that as long as the ijits in DC keep electing Barry, congress will laugh at the posibility of home rule.

Exactly. While DC should have home rule on general principles, you just summarized the political reality. City voters don't seem to realize that they are hurting their own case.

 

[FirstClass]

What more do you want to know?

What happened? from what I got he is a drugie or something, did he get caught?

 

[ylexot]

Not from this area, huh?

He was Mayor of DC, got caught with drugs, went to prison for a while, and just got elected.

 

[willie]

Exactly. While DC should have home rule on general principles, you just summarized the political reality. City voters don't seem to realize that they are hurting their own case.

We're talking about Ward 8 here. The meaning of the term "Home Rule" is the the bad azz that runs the crack house.

 

[Tonio]

We're talking about Ward 8 here. The meaning of the term "Home Rule" is the the bad azz that runs the crack house.

So? I could see Vrai taking a Social Darwinist view of this. Good or bad, the city's destiny will be in its own hands.

 

[willie]

I remember some of these quotes but some of them may be fabricated. Maybe?
http://www.skeptictank.org/barry.htm

 

[Dymphna]

Not from this area, huh?

He was Mayor of DC, got caught with drugs, went to prison for a while, and just got elected.

You skipped the part where they re-elected him mayor for a while, right after he got out of jail.

He's like "Mayor for Life," even if it is just "Councilman" at the moment maybe we should send troops in to overthrow the government. We did it for Haiti :shrug:

 

[2ndAmendment]

Exactly. While DC should have home rule on general principles, you just summarized the political reality. City voters don't seem to realize that they are hurting their own case.

And what principles might those be? The city was created as a Federal enclave, not as a state. History is a wonderful thing. The people are not disenfranchised; they can move.

 

[Tonio]

One idea I've heard is cutting the size of the Federal enclave to the original city--everything within Florida Avenue, I believe, where there are no private residences. The rest of the current District would go back to Maryland. This would probably pass Constitutional muster.

As a Maryland voter, I would go along with the deal as long as Marion Barry is exiled to Haiti or some place, because I don't want our state to have him.

 

[2ndAmendment]

Just what we need in Maryland. More freeloaders on the dole voting Democratic.

 

[willie]

One idea I've heard is cutting the size of the Federal enclave to the original city--everything within Florida Avenue, I believe, where there are no private residences. The rest of the current District would go back to Maryland. This would probably pass Constitutional muster.

As a Maryland voter, I would go along with the deal as long as Marion Barry is exiled to Haiti or some place, because I don't want our state to have him.

You would vote for what???
We already have Baltimore.