SPEAKING OF COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS

[mburbank]

Gerrymandering in an abysmal practice democrats and republicans have always engaged in.

The difference here, is it always been done once every ten years affter a census and you had to at least argue that there was some relationship between the cencus and redistricting. It happened after the census regardless of which party was in power.

This redistricting is between census's and is happening only becuase the republicans can force it. Their hope is that it won't open the door for redistricting every time power changes hands because they think they can secure power permanently in Texas. I think their probably wrong and they've opened a can of worms they will later regret.

Politics is always nasty hardball, but I think when the process becomes so extreme that the goal is to actively remove a two party system, I think it's gone to far. I think even the pretense of representative government in Texas is being thrown away. Tom Delay's role in all this makes the soviet comparison all the more apt. Centralized authority directing a bogus Duma.