Monday, November 12, 2012

How about Guam?

Sigh

Make Mine 25
Res Ipsa Loquitor
  Still Life With Robin: Statehood for PR, Statehood for DC
by Peggy Robin

The good news is that talk of a 51st state is back in the news. The bad news for us is that the focus is on Puerto Rico, not DC. For the first time a majority of Puerto Ricans are in favor of statehood: CNN: Puerto Ricans Favor Statehood For the First Time. However, it's entirely possible that the surge of interest in a 51st state could be converted into good news for DC as well. Among the many reasons that DC has been frustrated in its attempts to gain the benefits of statehood for its citizens are three seemingly trivial but widely, even stubbornly, held arguments:

1. That "50 states" is a nice round number and we should stop there.
2. That the nicely symmetrical design of the field of stars in the US flag would be thrown out of whack by any additional stars.
3. That DC would no longer be the District of Columbia but would get a ridiculous new name, "New Columbia" if it became a state.

Statehood for Puerto Rico could work to counter all three of these arguments. [I'd rather suck the carbuncle on Janet Napolitano's ass]


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6 comments:

DougM said...

Let the UN figure it out.
(What? Yeah, I'll have more to say about it when the meds kick in and the attendants remove these restraints.)
Also, the non-Federal-swamp part of DC should be given back to Maryland, as was done in Virginia.

Cheesy said...

Or we can just have one star on the flag - like in Texas.

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't Puerto Rico be the 58th state?

Anonymous said...

The noise pollution will be unbearable.

Anonymous said...

I'm with Doug. Send DC back to Maryland, and let them deal with the 'wondrous' school system, etc. They'd fit right in with the Balto crowd, and the county that votes 99% Dem. It would avoid a lot of problems, and get Congrefs hands out of making up rules for the residents.
We would not have had to have SCOTUS fiddling with weapons law if we didn't have DC 'genius' writing their own laws...
tomw

Anonymous said...

51 states?

What happened to the other 6 that O'Bozo visited and the 58th that he didn't visit?

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