The Republican from Orient is the prime sponsor on a joint memorial in the Senate that asks President Bush to create a new state east of the Cascades that would comprise 20 of the current state's 39 counties. Nine other Republican senators have signed on in support. Similar measures have been introduced in past years without success.
"It's not sour grapes," Morton said. "It's common sense. People who think alike should be united."
Seattle Post Intelligencer article
I think that's an excellent suggestion. Why should any of us try to get along with people who don't think like we do? In fact, I say we take it one step further - we split the country into two - one for the leftists and one for the rightists. Oh, wait. I guess we'll have to make a third for the people in the middle. Get me a petition to sign.
But even if the measure passes the Senate and House and is signed by the governor, the U.S. Constitution says that Congress, not the president alone, has the power to create a new state.
Well, that's no problem at all. I'm sure they'd be willing to abdicate that particular responsibility just as they violated the Constitutional rule that says they, not the president, have the power to declare war.
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