Newt Gingrich - I'm not a Citizen of the World

[ghettopalmetto]

DC was carved out of Maryland rather than Michigan, Florida, or Kansas.

Senator Stabenow, by way of example, has a residence in Michigan. Judge Sotomayer has a Greenwich Village pad into which she has sunk the bulk of her wealth. Both will also reside in Washington DC while carrying out their duties. Without having any count, I suspect that many Washington DC residents reside there temporarily attending to government or lobbying activities.

I know you don't like semantic definitions but "legal residence", "domicile", and "home of record" are related legal terms. This is a good article on these terms although it needs to be updated for the citizens of this world who have business with intergalactic beings.

http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/residence/

Let's put it this way. Just as you wouldn't want to be represented by someone from Ohio, DC residents don't want to be represented by someone that lives in Maryland. Likewise, Maryland doesn't want to have to concern itself with another large city. What you propose is not politically tenable.

Political appointees are not considered "residents" of the District of Columbia. This includes even low-level Hill staffers. Debbie Stabenow is a resident of Michigan [[and must be to hold her office, per Article I of the Constitution). So, suspect all you want. There are 600,000 legal residents of the capital of our nation who don't have any representation in the national legislature--an anomaly in democratic republics of the world.

[oladub]

Let's put it this way. Just as you wouldn't want to be represented by someone from Ohio, DC residents don't want to be represented by someone that lives in Maryland. Likewise, Maryland doesn't want to have to concern itself with another large city. What you propose is not politically tenable.

Political appointees are not considered "residents" of the District of Columbia. This includes even low-level Hill staffers. Debbie Stabenow is a resident of Michigan [[and must be to hold her office, per Article I of the Constitution). So, suspect all you want. There are 600,000 legal residents of the capital of our nation who don't have any representation in the national legislature--an anomaly in democratic republics of the world.

Why wouldn't it be politically tenable? Maryland votes Democrat anyways. It would be that many more votes for their Democratic Senators and presidential nominees. Maryland shouldn't be opposed to a couple of more representatives in its congressional delegation either.

I didn't want to bother you with technical definitions so I just passed along the link. I think you are confusing the meaning of 'resident' with more technical legal terms like 'legal resident' or 'home of record' that sometimes have different meanings in different jusisdictions and for different purposes according to that link. Residences are places where one resides for more than a brief time period. I assume that Stabenow, and others you mention, spend lengthy period in both their home state residences and ones they have in DC.

[alsodave]

In keeping with our word association mega-thread, whenever I see the title of this thread, I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmXb1xenrQ

Carry on.

[Detroitej72]

No love of China at all....love of our liberties that allow for free trade which paves the way for market forces to foster competition and prosperity...until Obama came along that is.

Until Obama came along should be replaced with: until monopolies come along, since they kill competition by their very nature.

And its funny you lambaste Newt for correctly opening his ears about climate change. The coasts could be submerged under water and you would still claim there is no such thing as climate change.

The only thing I think could use more study, is how much of the change we are contributing to by our way of life.

[ghettopalmetto]

Why wouldn't it be politically tenable? Maryland votes Democrat anyways. It would be that many more votes for their Democratic Senators and presidential nominees. Maryland shouldn't be opposed to a couple of more representatives in its congressional delegation either.

I didn't want to bother you with technical definitions so I just passed along the link. I think you are confusing the meaning of 'resident' with more technical legal terms like 'legal resident' or 'home of record' that sometimes have different meanings in different jusisdictions and for different purposes according to that link. Residences are places where one resides for more than a brief time period. I assume that Stabenow, and others you mention, spend lengthy period in both their home state residences and ones they have in DC.

It's not politically tenable because it would 1) require a Constitutional amendment to make the District a part of Maryland, 2) the District doesn't want to be a part of Maryland, as it would lose control over its finances and policy priorities 3) Maryland doesn't want to absorb the responsibilities and 4) how does one propose to merge the state and county functions of the District into Maryland state government?

Sorry. The lame definition of "resident" that I was using is the one used by the DC Department of Taxation as well as the DC Board of Elections and Ethics. My bad. I should really just listen to other people.

When you agree to be represented by someone who lives in Ohio, let me know. After all, both Michigan and Ohio were part of the Northwest Territory until 1803, so it should be no big deal, right?

[ccbatson]

Coercive government owned or endorsed [[corporate socialistic) monopolies kill competition...Free market monpolies do not.

[edgewood]

I don't love Gingrich either, but for different reasons. Mostly.......... on the costly forcing through of a horrible electronic medical record system that is not what it is cracked up to be.

I do agree with that. Large organizations can not keep online data safe as it is. Now we will have huge databases of medical records being stolen, hacked or "lost" on missing laptops.

[rb336]

Coercive government owned or endorsed [[corporate socialistic) monopolies kill competition...Free market monpolies do not.

that is a truly daft thing to say. monopolies kill competition, regardless.

say i develop a monopoly on lightbulbs. by definition, I am the biggest player in the world, the biggest consumer of all the materials, etc., that go into making them. I also have a team of engineers constantly patenting every possible variation. You think you can open up a competitor to me? I'd squash you like a bug the instant you spoke your intentions to another party, then i'd steal your family from you and send you pictures from our lovely vacation on my private island. actually, i'd let you invest your entire net worth and those of your friends and family first, then i'd squash you like a bug

[Detroitej72]

Coercive government owned or endorsed [[corporate socialistic) monopolies kill competition...Free market monpolies do not.

Then how do you explain Standard Oil and J.D. Rockefeller driving all the competition out of business before the government[[rightly) broke up his empire?

[ccbatson]

If a large company does such a good job at delivering the highest quality at the lowest price, then they have earned their success. They must continue to perform at this high level to stave off upstart competition from out doing them....everyone wins.

[rb336]

show me one instance where a monopolistic company has done what you said, bats.

[ccbatson]

Can't be done Rb because of the unconstitutional antitrust laws...I suppose we would have to go back to a time before said laws to find that example, however, it would have no contextual meaning if we did.