I doubt that Republican strategist Cesar Conda and I agree on very much, but we're together on DC voting rights: "Either give Washington, D.C. voting rights in the House, or eliminate Federal taxes for every D.C. resident," he says. Well, almost together. We should have two votes in the Senate, too! At 591,000 residents, DC is more populous than Wyoming. It's poorer, too. In deserves representatives able to leverage their votes in service of their constituencies. Jack Kemp calls it a "civil rights issue," and he's correct:
If the problem is that 100 is a nice, clean, number, then just take Bruce Bartlett's advice and make us part of Maryland. Such a move even has a cool name: Retrocession.
