http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/05/the-us-house-isnt-the-peoples-house Comments On: The U.S. House isn't the 'people's house' by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 22:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Maybe you think an ocean liner can turn on a dime, but the rest of us know better.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:32:29 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:57:18 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:27:41 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:48:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
Just another one of George W. Bush's acts that will continue to haunt the people of the United States. Unless those "people" happen to be big banks and corporations. They got it made in the shade.
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:45:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:32:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:40:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
We're pretty much powerless when a car comes speeding towards us from the other lane. Some of us are walking around with undetected cancers or a heart that's fixing to pop. We can't do a damn thing to stop the unexpected from happening to us. Ask old dead runner, Jim Fixx.

But a lot of what we're suffering from today....a lot of what's making our lives miserable are purely man-made. Why on earth in 2013, 236 years after we declared our independence from Britain must we suffer from the effects of gerrymandering? Why give the winners of any election such unrestrained power to FK things up? I'd say the same things if it was 1960 and the Democrats were solidly in power.

How you vote should absolutely matter. From where you vote shouldn't. Black folks have suffered from the effects of gerrymandering most of all and now us white folks are getting a big taste of what happens when the party in power can draw districts shaped like they were drawn using a Spriograph to empower the powerful and keep everyone else down.

My interest in politics isn't about what the government can do for me or my family. We're scraping by as we always have, but out my windows I see people stuck behind the 8 ball, the very people Republicans would dump in the ocean if they could. The very people that gerrymandering ropes off from any power at all. That's not Christian, that's not American, it's the seeds of our own destruction.

People a lot smarter than I am must cure the evils of gerrymandering once and for all by redrawing the lines fairly without regard to political parties, removing one thing that spawned the Tom DeLays of Congress, removing one thing that screws up our politics and makes our future just more years of a Whack-a-Mole existence. We have enough problems with natural disasters, last thing we need is to suffer from those made intentionally by man.

PS...Another quick fix that would return joy to American lives would be for the US to declare bankruptcy, wipe out all deficits so we can start over. The idea isn't so crazy if you consider that Great Britain never paid the US back for war goodies we sent them in WWI. They finally paid us back in 2006 for war goodies we sent them in WWII. Nixon forgave the USSR WWII debt to us while in office. Germany paid off it's WWI, I say WWI debt in October, 2010. It would appear the undead Cheney was right when he said deficits don't matter. We don't have to hang ourselves with man-made laws or gerrymandering!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:25:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:27:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
Texas could be the first of the dominoes to fall when the Hispanic vote reaches flood wave heights. Watched a special on San Antonio recently and most of the city's admin is Hispanic and Democratic. I realize DeLay and Company worked hard to gerrymand them into a minority status in many districts but that only holds for a limited time. The wave grows.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:31:31 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:30:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Kenneth Ryan James]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:13:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
The House is controlled by a group of wealthy white men, representing a minority of the votes, who owe their seats solely to gerrymandering and vote tampering -- not to the principles this republic was founded upon.

When they say "constitution," I hold onto my wallet. When they say "rights," I dodge behind something bullet-proof. When they say "the people," I wonder who in the hell they are talking about.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:12:25 -0600 Arkansas Times