Redistricting

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Get Ready to Read Some Bullshit!!!!!

He who controls redistricting can control Congress." -Karl Rove
I just got this article from a colleague and had to send it to you. It's the GOP's comeback plan, from none other than Karl Rove himself.
Backroom power-players like Rove know every loophole and trick in the book when it comes to bypassing voters to seize power.
Remember 1994? The GOP manipulated the congressional redistricting process, snatched up 34 seats, and used their new majority to obstruct progress and smash their disastrous agenda through Congress.
Twisting the political process -- all in the name of taking back power -- is what Republicans do best.
But their plan hinges on one thing: electing GOP governors. In almost every state, the governor has influence over this critical process and the Republicans know they MUST win enough statehouses in November for their underhanded plan to succeed.
That's why I'm urging you to send an emergency donation of $5 to the DGA before midnight tonight. We need to raise $50,000 in the next 13 hours to immediately invest in the races and send a clear message to Republicans that we won't let them get away with another redistricting power-grab.
Democratic governors are the only ones who can guarantee fair redistricting and stop the GOP from using their red pens to redraw congressional maps across America and effectively undo the progressive agenda we're fighting for.
Let's show Karl Rove and his power-hungry GOP cronies that we won't let them get away with it.
Colleen
P.S. Want to know Karl Rove's latest underhanded plot to return the GOP to power? Just read his recent op-ed. Then send $5 or more to the DGA before midnight tonight.

MORE BULLSHIT
I read this article that Karl Rove wrote for the Wall Street Journal last Thursday and had to share with you ... I cut and pasted a few excerpts below, or you can read the full article at www.rove.com.

EVEN MORE BULLSHIT
The GOP Targets State Legislatures
He who controls redistricting can control Congress.
The political world is fixated on whether this year's elections will deliver an epic rebuke of President Barack Obama and his party. If that happens, it could end up costing Democrats congressional seats for a decade to come.
Seats will almost certainly move out of Democratic states (such as Michigan, New York and Massachusetts) and into Republican-leaning, faster-growing states (such as Arizona, Georgia, Texas and Utah)...
...Take fast-growing Texas, which is expected to pick up as many as four seats next year. Democrats had a 17-13 edge in the state's congressional delegation after the 2000 elections. Republicans won control of the Texas House in 2002 and redrew the state's congressional map. As a result, the GOP now controls 20 congressional seats in Texas while Democrats control 12...
In Pennsylvania, Republicans controlled 11 congressional seats and Democrats 10 before reapportionment cost the Keystone State two seats in 2001. Afterward, the Republican legislature redrew the map to the GOP's advantage, creating 12 Republican seats and seven Democratic ones.
To understand the broader political implications, consider that the GOP gained somewhere between 25 and 30 seats because of the redistricting that followed the 1990 census. Without those seats, Republicans would not have won the House in 1994.

This article originally appeared on WSJ.com on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART

Democrats were the majority in Congress for over forty years... what a "delight" that was. Those are the same group that gave us a majority of the rules, regulations, restrictions and laws about motorcyclists. How fucking benevolent of them. Since the Democrats and Republicans both work for me, I am an equal opportunity employer. Easily enough for an outsider to discern, I have a left and right cheek on my ass. Check which one that they are kissing.