I am.

www.astrobasego.com

Elab, check out the Venture Bros shirt of the week.

I liked this one, but it was too long. Would've been more effective if they cut it up into a bunch of 30-second spots.

I prefer this classic from a few years back (click to start):

http://tinyurl.com/4we97z

It features a nice step-by-step process on how to become a "victorious" Republican.

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Green argument.

Here's a light blue argument:

"After Republicans won control of the Texas state legislature in 2002, for the first time in 130 years, they set their sights on establishing a majority of House of Representatives seats held by their party. After the 2002 election, Democrats had a 17-15 edge in House seats representing Texas, although the state's voters voted for Republicans in congressional races by an 18-14 margin. After a protracted partisan struggle, the legislature enacted a new congressional districting map, Plan 1374C, introduced in the Texas House by Representative Phil King of Weatherford. In the 2004 congressional elections, Republicans won 21 seats to the Democrats' 11. In 2006 Republicans won 19 seats, and Democrats won 13.

The resulting redistricting effort was extremely controversial, particularly because of the role played by Tom DeLay. On June 28, 2006, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion that threw out portions of the redistricting, requiring lawmakers to adjust boundaries to conform with the Court's decision, though the ruling did not immediately threaten Republican gains as a result of the redistricting."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Texas_redistricting

gunker, you are an asshat

Gunker, do you really believe gerrymandering started in Texas in 2002?

No.

Districting should be done by a computer program, preferably not of Diebold's design.

Then both sides will be bitching about who gets to program said computer.

As I understand the matter, the Republican DoJ recently attempted to ruin the life of this site's proprietor and toss him into Federal prison. Just before the 2006 Congressional elections, I seem to recall the this site's proprietor shut down the site for a few days as a symbolic protest against the Republican war on porn (Max Hardcore just convicted, John Stagliano facing trial). I would hope that XPT folks who support the GOP reflect a bit on the fact that the GOP is the self-same party that would like to put Jeff Mike out of business and into some dungeon. Food for thought.

Don't mistake my loathing of the Democrats as an endorsement of GOP policies. I left the GOP shortly after the invasion of Iraq, after 23 years of GOP membership. Aside from the stupidity of the Bush administration and its attempts to roll back civil liberties, one of the primary reasons I left the GOP was Bush's decision to actually give the Christian fundamentalists real governing power.

The Democrats can be loathsome on occasion, but at least since the Crawford village idiot was selected to be POTUS, the GOP has become heinous 24/7. Look at what they tried to do to Jeff Mike, and what they are trying to do to John Stagliano.