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| 2003-05-08 |
| Note: A linchpin of Democrats' strategy is to use Karl Rove as the "strawman" to attack the President. They will paint Rove as being behind every strategic decision from federal offices down to city councils. I've already seen this in South Dakota (in the Daschle-Thune probable match-up), Colorado and elsewhere. Republicans won their fight to redraw Colorado's congressional districts as lawmakers wrapped up their 2003 session Wednesday, but Democrats vowed the war was far from over. But, I thought Democrats were against war? "The battle doesn't stop at 12 o'clock (midnight) today," the end of the session, said Sen. Peter Groff, D-Denver. "The battle goes into the court. . . . Awfully bellicose coming from an avowed pacifist. The Senate passed the redistricting bill on a party-line vote of 18-17 at 8:45 p.m. Thirty-four minutes later, the chamber adjourned. The governor is not expected to call a special session. SB 352, the bombshell bill that threw the legislature into turmoil this week, redraws Colorado's seven congressional districts to strengthen the GOP's hold on five of them. Heh, heh In the House, which passed the bill earlier, Democrats protested by refusing to vote, then holding up masks with the likeness of Republican Rep. Bob Beauprez. Beauprez won the 7th Congressional District seat by only 121 votes in November. Can always count on the Democrats for street theatre and empty gestures. In the Senate, a tearful minority leader vowed to fight redistricting "with every breath." Sen. Joan Fitz-Gerald, D-Golden, called it "tyranny by the majority," a plan "conceived in darkness and introduced in stealth." Obviously, Joan went to the Senator Bobby Byrd School of flowery and dramatic oratory. Here it is, the money quote: She told fellow Democrats she was convinced President Bush's chief adviser, Karl Rove, had a role in the plan. "Absolutely not true," said Sen. Jim Dyer, R-Littleton. "I can vouch for that." |
| Posted by:ColoradoConservative |
| #10 James Carville is the bastard love child from the rape scene in Deliverance. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-05-08 18:25:56 |
| #9 Some local background for you all - I live in the district in question. The redistricting is long past due. The legislature was obligated to do the redistricting after the census by the state constitution. The Democrats abdicted their responsiblity when they held a 1 vote majority in the state Senate over the past 2 years - mainly in opposition to the Republican house and their plan (which is the one that got passed yesterday). Theu preferring to get their plan instated by judicial fiat of the courts instead of fair voting. They got a liberal judge in Denver who only slightly modified the Democrat plan that makes the 7th Congressional District run along the interstate for 15 miles, then take in urban west Denver neighborhoods. Why did the judge allow that "gerrmander"? Not to produce representative government or a representative district, but to deliberately and artificially produce an "evenly split" district for the reason of "competitive elections". Nevermind that the suburban technological area southeast, nor the new businesses near the airport, and the farms out east of there are over 30 minutes wway from the parts of other counties he gerrmandered by way of a 7-8 mile long, 120 foot wide unpopulated swath of elevated interstate. And nevermind that the area he was adding is almost completely unionized blue-collar urban areas to the west of Denver with few concerns that are mutual with the eastern counties where I live. The judge and Dems ignored all that and said they wanted to produce a given outcome ("balanced" 34-33-33 Dem-Repub-Indep) - which they got surprised when a republican won this district. The judge ignored that the farmers out to the east get shortchanged - urban issues get carried, while things like drought and water rights sit. Heavy industry comes to the forefront instead of things like tax breaks for tech industry that we have here to the east. The very large "Federal Center" was gerrmandered in, meaning those unionized federal employees get more attention than almost the same number of airport and telecom employees. There is really very little in common between the parts of Jefferson County/lakewood that the judge grafted onto suburban Aurora and the eastern plains of Arapahoe county. The new districts made mostly of eastern counties just make more sense, having more in common than the old gerrmandered split system did. Don't let the press get away with lying to you. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2003-05-08 17:50:11 |
| #8 O.K. back to the original message. Look for the Democrats to use Karl Rove as part of their campaigns. The thing is that Rove doesn't look the party of the villianous marionette master and from what I read he's actually quite personable and likeable. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-05-08 16:45:00 |
| #7 Carville := Skeletor |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-05-08 16:18:52 |
| #6 Mike, But what about the smell of brimstone when he walks into the room? I stand by my identification! |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-05-08 16:02:23 |
| #5 C.C., Fred: Sorry, guys, but both of you are wrong. Ever seen The Two Towers? Remember Gollum? Now look at a picture of Carville. "Hillary, my Preciousss. Nasssty Republicanssss . . . we hates them, we hates them forever!" |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-05-08 15:41:25 |
| #4 Carville is Satan? Cheeze. All this time I thought he was Beelzebub... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-05-08 14:59:21 |
| #3 Ah-HA!!! It's not the Evil Bush! It's the Even More Evil Rove! As far as Carville goes? He looks more inbred then a Saudi Arabian Hillbilly. And he is, indeed, Satan. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-05-08 14:22:53 |
| #2 Carville, by the way, IS Satan. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-05-08 14:02:52 |
| #1 "A linchpin of Democrats' strategy is to use Karl Rove as the "strawman" to attack the President. They will paint Rove as being behind every strategic decision from federal offices down to city councils" kinda like what the GOP did with Carville. And now the dems are blocking judicial nominations!! Bunch a damned plagiarists, you ask me. Cant they come up with something original instead of always copying the GOP? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-05-08 14:00:19 |