Imagine a congressional district where campaigning after the primaries is an afterthought; a congressional district where the infighting is the most of your worries; a congressional district where one party gets more than 95% of the vote. Democrats could have had that if Steny Hoyer hadn’t squashed the D.C. House Voting Rights Act over a rider, inserted by Republicans, that would liberalize the District’s notoriously stupid and effectually restrictive gun laws.
And why did Hoyer say no? Because D.C.’s preachy, uptight, reality denying council bitched and moaned about blood in the streets until Hoyer’s man parts shrank up inside himself and he changed his mind.
Hell, even Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s token (liberal) presence in the House, was OK with letting law-abiding citizens protect themselves if it meant the District would be able to decide for itself whether its residents could legally buy medical marijuana, get gay-married, etc., etc.
Sure, there would have been constitutional challenges and foaming at the mouth, but for a little while, the District’s residents–people who live here on the weekends and in neighborhoods without Starbucks and unusually safe streets–would have been moderately safer.
Congrats Rep. Steny Hoyer, you are today’s political nincompoop.