June 19, 2019: Sen. Leader Mitch McConnell Nixes Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico

 

6/19/19: As noted two days ago (see: 6/17/19), Milksop Mitch McConnell loves the voice of the people, so long as the people support Mitch and the GOP. In an interview with Laura Ingraham, which gains wide attention Tuesday, Sen. Milksop says there’s no way he’s going to let Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives push forward a bill to grant statehood to Washington D.C. 

No statehood for D.C.!

 

Mitch McConnell thinks voting leads to socialism. 

That would give the 705,749 people of the District of Columbia, a voting representative in the House and two votes in the Senate. This would be horrible and unfair and anti-American and a total rip-off where Wyoming, with 578,759 people, and Vermont, with 623,989, are concerned. 

McConnell also tells Ingraham that there’s no way he’ll allow Puerto Rico to become a state, not so long as he has breath in his body. He says that would be socialism…which…

WTF! 

That doesn’t even make sense.

 

In case you’ve forgotten, or never knew, Puerto Ricans gained U.S. citizenship in 1917, but till recently, tended not to wish to become a state. 

Now, imagine that the estimated 3,655,121 people of that island did vote by referendum for statehood. 

Would the master of the U.S. Senate allow them in, or would Ol’ Milksop ignore the voice of several million U.S. citizens? 

He would. McConnell would not listen to the Puerto Rican voice of the people, but would listen to the voice of Alaskans, North and South Dakotans, and Montanans, and their eight representatives in the Senate, representing roughly 3.4 million citizens, combined. 

Apparently, some U.S. citizens count more than others when McConnell is making up his mind.

Puerto Ricans in New York City march in favor of statehood.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: We missed this detail until October 2021, when looking up all the Republicans Trump has called RINO’s. It turns out that the 2016 Republican Party platform (page 30) had this to say: 

We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state. We further recognize the historic significance of the 2012 local referendum in which a 54 percent majority voted to end Puerto Rico’s current status as a U.S. territory, and 61 percent chose statehood over options for sovereign nationhood. We support the federally sponsored political status referendum authorized and funded by an Act of Congress in 2014 to ascertain the aspirations of the people of Puerto Rico. Once the 2012 local vote for statehood is ratified, Congress should approve an enabling act with terms for Puerto Rico’s future admission as the 51st state of the Union.