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capndunzzl said, 4 months ago
…a potty seat?
motivemagus said, 4 months ago
They’ve realized they are not appealing to the American people. Their answer? Cheat for the seats. Appalling.
ne7minder55 said, 4 months ago
If you can’t win cheat! If cheating doesn’t work cheat harder. This is the current GOP
mikefive said, 4 months ago
I sit in ignorance as pertains to this cartoon. Help!
Krazy Ig Katz said, 4 months ago
Republican Cheaters
ghostkeeper said, 4 months ago
Oh, no need to worry. The NRA will call upon its members to fight against the clear example of government tyranny.
(Hey! Didja see? I said all that with a straight face! It was tough, but I managed it!)
Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
Good for the Republicans.
Chillbilly
said, 4 months ago
The usual crazies chear them on and they hear those cheers as deafening roars of approval. But as anyone from Virginia will tell you, there are two parts of Virginia: suburban DC and Mississippi. It’s the goal of Mississippi to disenfranchise the professionals, thinkers and progressives in DC metro.
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
@Krazy Ig Katz
I like Al Sharpton’s show. Especially the Revvie Awards.
Doughfoot said, 4 months ago
@mikefive
The Virginia senate is divided 20/20, but while one Senator, civil rights pioneer and first African American mayor of Richmond Henry Marsh, was attending the presidential inauguration, the Republican used their momentary majority to rush through a redistricting scheme that pulled democratic voting areas out of a dozen districts and packed them into one. The GOP claimed that it was all about giving African Americans another majority district.
From the newspaper:
Senator Richard L. Saslaw, the Democratic minority leader, used an expletive to describe Republican concerns for black voters. He said Republicans blocked efforts in 2011 to create a new Congressional district with a high percentage of blacks.
Mr. Saslaw, who is known for not holding back, said that on the Senate floor he compared the Republican move to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Both Republicans and Democrats, he said, have traditionally agreed to map districts in the back room to protect incumbents.
“When I did the redistricting I went to every single Republican, except four or five, and gave them the districts they wanted,” he said of the effort he led in 2011. By contrast, he said, the new map “guts about a dozen of our Senators.”
Back to me: Even the staunchly conservative Governor and Lt. Governor have expressed disapproval, and there is the possibility that he may veto the bill, but the GOP-dominated House of Delegates is sure to pass it.
Meanwhile the House is debating a bill to allow/encourage college students to bring guns to school. Because unsupervised binge-drinking 18-year-olds ought to armed. It’s okay, because if anything goes wrong, the college can be blamed.
DavidGBA said, 4 months ago
Carry me back to ol’ Virginny because that’s where my mother is, raising more slave siblings to be sold South to Mississippi.
ODon said, 4 months ago
Voter fraud defined, the GOP in Virginia demonstrates that the individual voter comes second to the wants of the party.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@Krazy Ig Katz
Regarding the mid-term redistricting scheme rammed through by the republicans,
“Republican Governor Bob McDonnell has not yet said whether he would sign the plan into law.”
If the disingenuous and scurrilous behavior of Michigan’s republican governor is any indication of how his ilk behaves, McDonnell will sign the bill all the while saying he doesn’t support it.
Just demonstrates the republican’s level of integrity. If you can’t win on the merits (which they cannot, they’ve demonstrated that) then lie, cheat and steal. And that they do.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@Krazy Ig Katz
Thanks for the link, it was informing about the depths of deceit the republicans will sink to because they can’t stand on their morals (which they have none) or their values.
morrrva said, 4 months ago
It ain’t a hat they’re pulling that seat out of.