Yet another VERY GOOD Reason Illinois should be deLayed (redistricted)

[No Mandate Here.]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15423-2004Nov26.html>

In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them, regardless of how many Democrats favor them.

Hastert's position, which is drawing fire from Democrats and some outside groups, is the latest step in a decade-long process of limiting Democrats' influence and running the House virtually as a one-party institution. Republicans earlier barred House Democrats from helping to draft major bills such as the 2003 Medicare revision and this year's intelligence package. Hastert (R-Ill.) now says such bills will reach the House floor, after negotiations with the Senate, only if "the majority of the majority" supports them.

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He needs to be unelected... Frist, too.

[Eric J in MN]

1. Absolutely. We have to gerrymander as much as the Republicans,

until both parties or the courts decide that it's time for a solution.

[okieinpain]

2. thank you. grand idea, grand idea. it should be put into action as

we speak. maybe we could reach some kind of deal, if the puke felt that dems were ready to go nuklar

[Eric J in MN]

3. kick

kick