Congress tries meddling in D.C. (again)

Kentucky has over 50 counties where it's illegal to buy alcohol. Nobody in the U.S. Senate has tried to overturn these antiquated laws.

But now that the District of Columbia wants to allow bars to stay open 24/7 for just one week this coming January, several senators act like this is a sign of society's ultimate ruin and want this new policy gutted.

After D.C. city council passed the new law allowing bars to be open around the clock during inauguration week, right-wing Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) demanded that city council reverse itself. So far, the city hasn't caved to this meddling.

Now that the Senate has tried to intervene against D.C.'s lenient alcohol laws, when will it take on Kentucky's draconian statutes? The laws in Kentucky and several other states against alcohol are motivated entirely by religion, and America is supposed to have separation of church and state, right?

The Twenty-First Amendment has been misinterpreted to allow states and counties to go dry, but even if that was the correct interpretation, why does the Twenty-First Amendment carry more weight than the First Amendment?

As for the D.C. controversy, is this yet another case of Congress treating D.C. as its own policy laboratory and pretending as if the city can't make decisions for itself?

(Source: http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/121108-DC_Council_stands_firm_on_bar_hours.html)