Okay tonight will be a great show. But before I start, I want to blame the last two Chiefs losses on my dear friend John Tackett. Now you say what does John have to do with the way they played.....well he don't, but its never stopped me before for blaming things on him(plus he is a Chiefs fan). Okay let me put the joint down for a second and get to this blog.
On tonights show :
Tom Delay
New justice
Bill(blackie)Bennett
Bush the King
Green cards for Booty
Ashton Kutcher?Demi Moore(Why I think they will break up soon)
Eminent Domain in Florida.
Hey here is what the neo-con Rush forgot to tell us about Delay(Rush was to high to tell people about this). He deserves the Larry Johnson Bitch slap. See you guys tonight!
The Real Tom DeLay Story
The real story about Tom DeLay’s indictment in Texas goes far beyond the corrupt
acts of a single individual. DeLay’s intervention in Texas state legislative elections was
part of a concerted, nationwide Republican plan to control our government through
political gerrymandering at the expense of black and Hispanic voters. I observed this
process first hand as the expert witness for Democrats in the court cases challenging
Republican congressional redistricting plans not only in Texas, but also in Pennsylvania,
Florida, Ohio, and Michigan.
These latter four states are equally divided between Republicans and Democrats,
yet Republican gerrymandering has resulted in GOP control of about two-thirds of
their congressional seats.
By pumping money into state legislative races in Texas, DeLay engineered Republican
control in 2002 over a previously divided state legislature. He then guided Texas
lawmakers into breaking precedent by rewriting mid-decade an established congressional redistricting plan. The DeLay plan thwarted the will of voters by drawing districts to
guarantee Republican victories and take over five Democratic seats. To this end,
DeLay and his allies cynically and knowingly destroyed the voting rights of millions
of African-Americans and Hispanics in Texas.
In the Dallas County area, the plan demolished a 60.5 percent minority district and
scattered its voters into five Anglo-dominated, Republican districts in which they have
no chance to influence the outcomes of elections. In southwest Texas, DeLay’s plan
removed some 90,000 Hispanics from Congressional District 23 to ensure that it
would elect a Republican opposed by Hispanic voters. His plan dismantled seven other congressional districts across Texas in which African-American and Hispanic voters
critically influenced election outcomes, submerging these voters into heavily Republican
districts in which they have no influence.
The big corporate interests behind Tom DeLay knew full well what they bought in Texas.
They bought our government. Absent DeLay’s gerrymandering, the Democrats, not
Republicans, would have picked up congressional seats nationally in 2004, putting
Democrats in a much better position to regain control of Congress next year.
2 comments:
Remember that little joke y'all made about a liberal takeover of the Republican Party? If you can't beat 'em join 'em?
Actually, Tony and Dennis are on to something. We all know how the wonderful right-thinkin' folks with the Christian Coaltion took over huge swaths of the Republican Party. But how about folks we might call lefties?
Back in 1915 the "Non-Partisan League" began their successful takeover of North Dakota's Republican Party...a takeover that involved the use of the Socialist Party platform. There's more to the story of course...but neo-cons....be warned! bwahahahaha
Mr. DRM, absodamnlutely!
The NPL strategy was that of building a mass organization quickly and then holding pre-primary caucuses to select members to run in both Republican and Democratic primaries statewide.
If the district in question was predominantly Republican, then NPL would run their candidate in the Republican primary. If the voters were voting primarily for Democrats, then the NPL would run their selection in the Democratic primary.
Since North Dakota was an overwhelmingly Republican state the lion's share of NPL candidates ran in the Republican primaries.
And won. Then they went on to the general election. And won.
Yes, by all means let us bring back the party o'Lincoln. Woohoo! The ancient Republican Party was by today's standards (albeit we have very shaky standards of political labeling these days!) quite "left-wing." That would be a party worth bringing back to USAmerica, eh?
Alan
Prairie Village
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