The BOWSER Act. DC Home Rule in Limbo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My councilman spent all of his limited political capital trying to get bike lanes on Connecticut Ave while addicts/homeless were simultaneously terrorizing old women on fixed incomes in once safe apartment buildings in Ward 3. Not a great look.

I will not sit by and have you ignore the way he has prioritized pickleball. Give the man his flowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NPS does a lousy job of maintaining the land it controls, including with trash removal. If you don’t like specific policies of the D.C. government’s, that’s up to you, but if you think a dramatically scaled back federal government will do a better job of running a city where not a single voting constituent of any members of Congress resides, I think you’re being quite naive.

It is not about the D.C. government's policies, which may be good policies. It is about the D.C. government's performance in executing those policies, which is very well known. The performance is terrible and plagued by corruption.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NPS does a lousy job of maintaining the land it controls, including with trash removal. If you don’t like specific policies of the D.C. government’s, that’s up to you, but if you think a dramatically scaled back federal government will do a better job of running a city where not a single voting constituent of any members of Congress resides, I think you’re being quite naive.

It is not about the D.C. government's policies, which may be good policies. It is about the D.C. government's performance in executing those policies, which is very well known. The performance is terrible and plagued by corruption.

And the solution is…Congress?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NPS does a lousy job of maintaining the land it controls, including with trash removal. If you don’t like specific policies of the D.C. government’s, that’s up to you, but if you think a dramatically scaled back federal government will do a better job of running a city where not a single voting constituent of any members of Congress resides, I think you’re being quite naive.

It is not about the D.C. government's policies, which may be good policies. It is about the D.C. government's performance in executing those policies, which is very well known. The performance is terrible and plagued by corruption.

And the solution is…Congress?

It's definitely not more of the same old, same old.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NPS does a lousy job of maintaining the land it controls, including with trash removal. If you don’t like specific policies of the D.C. government’s, that’s up to you, but if you think a dramatically scaled back federal government will do a better job of running a city where not a single voting constituent of any members of Congress resides, I think you’re being quite naive.

It is not about the D.C. government's policies, which may be good policies. It is about the D.C. government's performance in executing those policies, which is very well known. The performance is terrible and plagued by corruption.

And the solution is…Congress?

It's definitely not more of the same old, same old.

+1 we need a radical change in DC.

[Anonymous]

The name of the bill is hilarious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NPS does a lousy job of maintaining the land it controls, including with trash removal. If you don’t like specific policies of the D.C. government’s, that’s up to you, but if you think a dramatically scaled back federal government will do a better job of running a city where not a single voting constituent of any members of Congress resides, I think you’re being quite naive.

It is not about the D.C. government's policies, which may be good policies. It is about the D.C. government's performance in executing those policies, which is very well known. The performance is terrible and plagued by corruption.

And the solution is…Congress?

It's definitely not more of the same old, same old.

+1 we need a radical change in DC.

Please this will just be things like closing streets so low level Trump administration lackeys can drive down the center of the street. There is no history of Republicans actually governing without incompetence, increase crime and more graft.

[Anonymous]

Has the mayor commented on the fact they named an anti-Home Rule bill after her? Talk about a slap in the face. Would love to hear her thoughts on this.

[Anonymous]

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This post is so dumb I can't believe I'm even replying to it, but this is just egregiously wrong. The population is at a 25 year high, metro ridership is breaking records, crime is down. I mean sure I wish some things were better but life in DC is great for hundreds of thousands of people. If you hate it so much, nobody is making you live here, but that doesn't justify the federal government taking it over.

Couldn't have said it better myself. The racist cowards who live in the burbs and shlt on DC can eat shlt. Our representative democracy means more than your fee-fees. F you.

[Anonymous]

Aptly named bill.

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Anonymous wrote:Won’t pass the Senate but watch for it to be added to an omnibus.

It'll pass the Senate. The vote will be along party lines.

You need 60 votes for something like this unless they stuff it into a budget bill. They don’t have 60 votes for this.

Lots of “moderate” dems will work across the aisle to get this done. The moderate dems are already working with the republicans on debt ceiling, Trump’s Gaza plan, allowing trumps third term, etc.

If this is true, which I don’t believe, who are you speaking about? No dems are ok with a trump third term.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If this happens, we may hear calls for retrocession back to Maryland.

That should've already happened.

I support this, if for no other reason than enforcement of traffic laws against Maryland drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The name of the bill is hilarious.

It should be ALLEN

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My councilman spent all of his limited political capital trying to get bike lanes on Connecticut Ave while addicts/homeless were simultaneously terrorizing old women on fixed incomes in once safe apartment buildings in Ward 3. Not a great look.

I will not sit by and have you ignore the way he has prioritized pickleball. Give the man his flowers.

Mic drop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If this happens, we may hear calls for retrocession back to Maryland.

DC doesn’t want that and neither does Maryland. Give it up.

If Republicans start running DC and ban abortion and a slew of other things that are protected by the Maryland state Constitution people will be changing their tune.