Bring It On!

By Emmet on Jun 28, 2006 | Reply

Stay the course!  Just in:

Top court upholds most of Texas redistricting plan

Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:36am ET

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By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of a bitterly contested Texas congressional map engineered by then-Rep. Tom DeLay to help solidify Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Although the justices refused to overturn the entire map, they ruled that one district in southwestern Texas violated the federal voting rights law.

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding most of the redistricting plan could make it harder for Democrats to win control of the 435-seat House in the November elections.

In the lead opinion for the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, “We reject the statewide challenge to Texas’ redistricting as an unconstitutional political gerrymander and the challenge to the redistricting in the Dallas area as a violation of the Voting Rights Act.”

The redistricting plan had been challenged by Democrats, minority groups and others who argued the 2003 plan had been motivated by unconstitutional political purposes.

(Additional reporting by Deborah Charles)

Stay the course!

By windspike on Jun 28, 2006 | Reply

Emmet, are you the very incarnation of a riechwing apologist?  Sniffing a bit too much of the GOP glue lately?

Ken, I snagged this one and the other and posted them on my location.

Nice job.

By ken grandlund on Jun 28, 2006 | Reply

Thanks Spike- glad you’re helping spread the word. As for Emmet…I rarely respond to his outbursts anymore. Like a child throwing a temper tantrum, it is best to just let him get it out and ignore the disruption.

By 4Truth on Jun 28, 2006 | Reply

BUSH says stay the course

In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that President Bush’s “view has been and remains that a timetable is not something that is useful. It is a signal to the enemies that all you have to do is just wait and it’s yours.

“The goal is not to trade something off for something else to make somebody happy, the goal is to succeed,” he said.

 6-27-06 Democrats want a Timetable

6-28-06 Insurgents will stop killing if there is a Timetable

BUSH Started the War because “SEE Paul Merda Comment” about the mindset of BUSH & His military.

By Dusty on Jun 29, 2006 | Reply

I grabbed this one as well..I have to rotate them on my sidebar.

By Liberal Jarhead on Jun 30, 2006 | Reply

Ken’s right, just open a window and turn on a fan and get on with things.