West told conservatives, “See the decimation of progressive socialism and polices that have broken down the family unit in what used to be the strongest family community in this country.”

We reported yesterday that Rep. Allen West (R-FL) was mulling a proposal which would have excluded District residents from federal income taxation as a quick-fix solution to the city’s lack of representation in Congress. Well, we hope you got your fill of debate regarding the idea: according to Roll Call reporter Daniel Newhauser, an Allen spokesperson said that the freshman Representative is not considering such a bill….

Our license plates have long complained of “Taxation Without Representation.” Now, one Republican congressman says he’d like to change that slogan to “No Taxation, No Representation.”

Oh, Congress. We always enjoy it so when the nation’s elected representatives decide to aimlessly act as a representative for the city which they’ll be working in. After all, there’s a long line of those — Louie Gohmert, Tom Coburn, and Jason Chaffetz, to name but a few — who have so obviously pined to serve as a shadow representative or senator for the District of Columbia. Now, we realize that politicians think that they own this town — we’ve come to terms with it. The only thing that we ask is that before such politicians spout off about our hometown (which, face it, is bound to happen with all of them), they at least try to do a modium of homework.