Grrr.......

TheRogue · 05-15-2003, 12:26 PM

Texas Rep Legislature...

And a little more....

FallRiverGuy · 05-15-2003, 12:36 PM

:shocked:

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fish assassin · 05-15-2003, 12:50 PM

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Cool Texan · 05-15-2003, 12:55 PM

The Oklahoma hideout is pretty childish and stupid. Hopefully those folks will not be re-elected. They are protesting a redistricting that happens regularly. Pretty dumb. As for cut programs, they're cutting, we're cutting...everyone is cutting. Seems like its always the Texans that make the dumb comments that never die and haunt them forever.

TheRogue · 05-16-2003, 05:17 AM

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Originally posted by Cool Texan:
The Oklahoma hideout is pretty childish and stupid. Hopefully those folks will not be re-elected. They are protesting a redistricting that happens regularly. Pretty dumb. As for cut programs, they're cutting, we're cutting...everyone is cutting. Seems like its always the Texans that make the dumb comments that never die and haunt them forever.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">In a democratic society, that is one of the problems the minority faces when being steamrolled by the majority. However, that's why there are such options available. Interesting to see that there has been NOT ONE bi-partisan bill introduced in their legislative session, and NOT ONE Democratic bill that has made it out of commitee without amendments to the point of changing the purpose of the bill (I did more research last night on this, sorry, didn't bookmark the pages). So, either the Democrat legislators are complete idiots with IQ's of a tortoise, or the Republican party is stamping on them just because they're Dems.

That just might be a state that could end up worse off than us.

TR

Straydog · 05-16-2003, 05:35 AM

TR,

Or maybe a bit of both...........

I have to believe that the party of the President in the President's home state is a very, very powerful party.

Kruechief · 05-16-2003, 06:45 AM

Naughty politicians shouldn't use a federal agency to investigate peers... it is against the rules.

I know a guy who used the Oregon LEDS system to check on his daughter's new boyfriend.

He sells insurance door-to-door now.

Krue

fisheromen · 05-17-2003, 04:13 PM

Ain't it great? Kind of like the Dems playing partisan games with Bush's eminently qualified judicial nominations.

I personally loved the stunt the Dems played, and loved the fact that some tricky Reps tried to misuse Homeland Security to find them. It would have made a great show if they could have arrested some of them and forced them back but the Dems outwitted them.

I think some of these things show what a crock it is to say there is no difference between the parties. There are some real idealogical differences that do still have a practical impact on their voting.

Oh, and who does say that free education and health care provided by government are a citizen's right? Idealogically I'd say that comes from a Hegelian view of gov't. Same guy who Marx based his work on and thus at the root of Soviet Communism. So that Rep from Texas wasn't too far off - it is from the pit of hell (IMHO) :grin:

As for Molly Ivins in general?

[ 05-17-2003, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: fisheromen ]

Albacore Tuna Captain · 05-18-2003, 06:11 PM

Okay, I just have to respond to this. The Democrats in Texas are now a minority because the people of Texas voted that way. Your representatives are suppose to vote the way their constituents desire. If the Republicans are making changes that some people don't like, then they can make their statements at the polls. For the Democrats to run out of state to avoid their legal responsibility is a stomping on the process. Maybe they should stay home and try to work with the people who put them in office rather than to cry foul when things don't go their way and run away.

05-18-2003, 06:56 PM

ATC,
If the Dems don't like how the game is going they take the ball and go home