faced a veto threat from the White House, which said the bill was unconstitutional.

Love the language....not "because it's unconstitutional", but the White House said (as in "claimed") the bill was unconstitutional.

Typical liberals....don't like the law, write a new one that ignores it. Constituition be damned. That's why they like to get their way by judicial fiat. They subscribe to the Paul Begala view of power with executive orders...."Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool."

Wasn't there a reason that the founding fathers made the capital a "district", not a city or a state? I'm not a constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that if it was planned that way from the beginning, there must have been a good reason....

The liberal intelligensia do not believe that the Constitution should be the final word. They believe that it should be what they want is the law by any means that they choose to get it. The media hacks who parrot their talking points are not educated enough to have read the constitution, let alone understand it.

" Today, the majority of representatives appear to be so constitutionally illiterate that they don't believe the amendment process is necessary (either that, or they are throwing a bone to their constituents, knowing full well that what they are doing won't fly). But the fact is that anything short of an amendment will be judged unconstitutional by any federal court faithfully carrying out its duties (which is, unfortunately, not a given)."

Every member of congress takes an oath of office in which they pledge to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic...

IMO, writting, voting for and passing a piece of legislation which is knowingly unconstitutional is a clear violation of that oath of office and grounds for impeachment.

To a liberal, the US Constitution is a horrible thing... and any chance they get to twist it, or interpret it as a living and breathing document, or ignore it completely, they'll take it.

Remember;

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

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"It's not that they're [liberals] not aware of all the things we're aware of, it's that they need to reject them in order to remain in this five-year-old utopia that they've been told is the only hope for mankind." ~ Evan Sayet

The Constitution keeps getting trampled every few years. Look at the search and seizure laws, they're not constitutional. Look at NAFTA, there wasn't a 2/3 majority vote on its passage.

Abortion is legal, even though the Declaration of Independence claims we have the right to life and the Constitution says we can't be convicted without due process. US citizens are sentenced to death every day.

I bet that someday soon we will see more and gun control. They need to get the guns away from people who are really pissed that the Constitution is being continually trampled upon. Especially from those who have been screwed by the NewSpeak meaning of eminent domain.

m1xram

There seems to be a simple solution for this: Make D.C. a state.

There is also the Constitutional provision that:

The Congress shall have power...To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States...

If the blogger is going to chastize others for not presenting a complete discussion of the issue, then the blogger should refrain from the same error.

A number of folks believe this provision of the Constitution gives Congress the right to add Members from the District.  Even if one does not agree with that proposition, the case still should be made in the interest of presenting both sides.

Here is the reason the article did not go into further details:

The left has been decrying all over the place that George Bush was peeing on the Constitution and breaking every rule. If they reported that he would be right on a Constitutional issue.........well, we just can't have that!