I had to post something since I didn’t want to look at that tech building any more.

Mike Huckabee is breaking with Republicans yet again, this time on legislation that would give Washington, DC a Congressman.  Now I could make the argument that the legislation is patently unconstitutional  or talk about how even a proposed alternative would be dangerous, but I won’t.

This is a party loyalty issue.  Forget the smoke and mirrors.  Forget the reasons that the Founders set aside a federal district.  Forget what happened in Philadelphia.  Any legislation that grants the District of Columbia voting rights will grant the Democrats an additional Congressional seat.  The proposal to grant Utah an at-large seat until the next election does not solve that because the DC seat will remain in Democrat hands and it is anybody’s guess to what state that seat would be allocated after the next census.

I’d like to back Huckabee, not so much because I like him but because I really don’t care for Giuliani, McCain or Romney.  I’m still undecided on Thompson.  Taken with his tax-hiking, big government history, though, something like this makes it all the more difficult.

The GOP field is depressing, and it seems like things get worse every time a candidate opens his mouth.  Fortunately I’ll have the Irish win this afternoon to make me forget about it for a while.