Marion Barry’s Lost Weekend: Loose Lips Daily

Posted by Mike DeBonis on Jul. 6, 2009, at 9:20 am 

Mark Plotkin hits the WaPo Metro opinions page with perhaps the most strident criticism of Eleanor Holmes Norton’s performance on the D.C. vote bill that’s yet made its way to print: ‘For the District to get a modicum of democracy — a full vote on the House floor — we have to dramatically change how we do things. The first person who needs to change or get out of the way is Eleanor Holmes Norton. She has to stop calling the vote “her vote.” The vote is not hers. Every citizen of the District deserves that vote. It belongs to all of us….Since the bill passed in the Senate this year, Norton has had more than ample time to move the bill in the House. Instead, I have been told by many involved in the process, she has been consistently inconsistent. One day ready to go, the next day timorous. She is acting not like a “warrior on the Hill” but rather a conventional politician who can’t and won’t act.’