Replying to a message of Dave Drum to Tim Richardson:

 DD> -=> TIM RICHARDSON wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 DD>>> CONCLUSION: The US should pull out of Washington.

 BA>>> Actually, Washington should pull out of the US.

 DD>> So, what's your proposal for a national capitol? Keeping in mind that
 DD>> the boys from K Street will be where ever the gummint sets up house.
 DD>> And all the bureaucraps and "flappers", etc.

 TR>> Philadelphia, PA,.....where it all began.

 DD> Actually it began in Boston, where the Adams family didn't want to pay
 DD> taxes and in Virginia with Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. Philly
 DD> was just a convenient meeting spot ... that also happened to be right
 DD> near Ben Franklin.

More likely because it was close to the middle of the colonies at the time.

 DD> The capitol jumped around until settling in the swamp land that became
 DD> Washington, D.C.

It's still a swamp, although I prefer 'cesspool.'

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