It's long arm reached from the swamps of Louisiana and quashed the will of DC voters. "It" is Sen. Mary Landrieu and she used a Senate maneuver to block a school reform measure approved by DC's duly elected city officials.
I guess all of LA's post-Katrina problems have been solved so Landrieu was bored and figured it'd be fun to interfere in a city she wasn't elected to represent.
With one flick of her swamp moss draped finger Landrieu, whom no one in DC voted for, becomes a distant ruler without check over the citizens of DC. Didn't we fight a war over something like that once?