Incumbency, Gerrymandering, and the Real Election
Posted by William L. Anderson

Laurence’s post is even more pertinent when one realizes that the Republican losses would have been much greater had there not been so much gerrymandering of House districts over the past several years. Yes, some incumbents lost even their gerrymandered districts, but for the most part, the Republicans created a situation in which most of the House seats are safe seats — for both parties.

In a recent column, Ann “Madame DeFarge” Coulter mocked the Democrats for not winning more seats, saying that it was a below-average loss for the party in power in a mid-term election. But Coulter’s back-door crowing does not include the gerrymandering variable in this whole equation.

Perhaps the Republicans one day will realize just how destructive the Bush family has been to the party. (I’m not a Republican, and I am making this observation as an interested spectator.) Papa Bush gave us the first Gulf War, which really has been a war without end.
Dubya thought he would finish it, but he finished the Republicans instead.

Just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Paul Craig Roberts said that an invasion would be destructive to the Republican Party. James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal’s “OpinionJournal” page held up the column for ridicule, and even today speaks in favor of what he calls the “Liberation of Iraq.” (I find it interesting that a Neoconservative supporter of the war uses the same language to support it as the communists used when they would enslave a country.)…

See THE GREEN PARTY RECOUNT SITE and Rep. Conyers’ report on the Ohio Election Fraud Hearings WHAT WENT WRONG IN OHIO.

People are dying because election fraud placed the losers by and large republicans in dishonest elections into power.

George Allen and others were called off their calls for recounts because recounts would have shown how much the republicans cheated and that the wins by democrats were even greater amounts of votes by US citizens than reported.

*******Dear Lora – Once again you confirm my suspicions – you are an under-achiever. Should you learn how to use “the Google” “St. Louis” and “ACORN” and “St. Louis County Registrar of Voters” might demonstrate the number of dead and frauulent voter registrations tossed…..Pssst….these registrations weren’t submitted by folks hoping for a Republican win…..

Comment by mighty hypocrite —

Mighty Hypocritical Aphid,
You haven’t provided any proof that voting fraud has been perpetrated by Dems. As is your (bad) habit, you are merely speculating that opposition to photo IDs means support of voter fraud. I myself would not necessarily be opposed to photo IDs if access to them were made free and easy. But, as other posters have already pointed out, $20 was judged to be akin to a “poll tax” and, thus, illegal. Also, I imagine $20 would be a burden on people liiving on a limited budget. Moreover, I have read that in Georgia the procedures for getting a photo ID are not available in all counties. And which ones, not? Just by coincidence, I suppose you would say, the ones with a heavily black population.
In the meantime, you obviously don’t mind that Laura Ingraham incited her listeners over the airwaves to break the law. So why don’t you first take Dick Cheney’s advice and show Senator Leahy how it is anatomically possible?

Also, in my previous post, I stated Malkin had encouraged this. i was wrong, it was Ingraham. My apologies to Malkin for that.

If Laura Ingraham gets away with this, what is the precedent set for future elections? What will other right-wing radio mouthpieces do to obstruct the democratic process.

I speak as a teacher from experience. It’s fundamental that if you do not enforce a rule or law, then you will have a rise among those who wish to challanege the parameters to see what they can get away with. It’s no different than those who break the speedlimit. If drivers see a cop pulling over someone, what do they all do? They slow down.

But this is the tenor of this administration. Bush invited all these radio mouthpieces into his office to give them talking points before the election. Breaking the law, undermining the democratic process, and using the Constitution as an rectum-wipe is what the mass media along with the American people are content to accept, or even ignore. The parameters are stretched for those who unconditionally support Bush. And yet those who are against him have felt the choke hold tightening.

Why is it a waste a time to investigate whether or not a crime was broken? Give Leahy the room he needs to expose injustice.

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Hey Moron. The court case is styled Bush vs. Gore. That means that Bush went to court, not Gore. Gore suppressed the full re-count which is guaranteed by FL state constutional law. When are you jackals going to quit spreading the lies of this evil administration and FOX News hounds? The Republicans stole that election, they stole the ‘04 election and tried to steal this last election…how else did the rethuglicans make it so close in so many races? Karl failed his math and didn’t flip enough Diebold votes.

Who is this tool?

Comment by ForTruth

Yes. Ann-thrax apparently registered to vote (or tried to vote) at an address different from her legal home in Palm Beach, Florida.

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