[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> In a message dated 7/27/2003 5:48:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> > Not to say that the Republicans look all that good in this, but it could
> > have been worse. (And then the backlash would have been
> > that much more,
> > as well.)
>
> Worse in what way in 21st Century USA? Had them beaten? Had them lead
> from the Capitol in chains and sent to Quantanamo with the rest of
> the enemies of the US? The 19th century was, well the 19th century.
> Has anything remotely like this happened in the 20th or 21st century
> except in Texas (hey that was another republican adventure wasn't it?)
I've heard accounts of protesters who were arrested in DC. If any
Congresscritters had been treated that way, yeah, that would have been
worse. (And those accounts were since January 2001.)
If you're thinking of the Democrats fleeing to Oklahoma in May, yeah,
that was Texas. The whole redistricting mess. And the @#$% special
sessions the governor keeps calling for dealing with it aren't making
anyone I talk to, regardless of political affiliation, all that happy.
(Of course, I'm not talking to Tom DeLay, but at this point, I would not
be inclined to give him the time of day due to his involvement in
redistricting issues.) I think that no matter what kind of new map
passes, if one does, there WILL be a lawsuit, and the state of Texas is
going to have to spend taxpayer money on the suit instead of things that
could *use* it a lot more, like schools (especially in property-poor
districts) and roads.
Julia
and if you could keep me off that soapbox, please do -- I'm not sure the
stepping up onto it is helping me any
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