Gerrymandering stopped the GOP loss of 50 more seats, pal.
You look at those safe districts they created and you can plainly see, some of the most egregious sinners on the GOP rightwing who deserved to be severely punished were protected by being given new all-white conservative districts. People like Duncan Hunter, Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Denny Hastert, Blunt, on and on.
Sure there are some good Republicans who deserved to win, but not that many. Also, the only way they could beat Harold Ford was to resort to racist ads, which they denied were racist. And if there had been any ethics investigations over the past six years plenty more GOP corporate lobbyist-suckers would be exposed and out of jobs too, like the Hunter-Lewis-Doolittle types mentioned above, all of whom were in with Cunningham and Abramoff.
There are still some very big crooks in the GOP congress. Hopefully, they can be rooted out a la Cunningham, Ney, Jefferson and Foley. One big crook got snagged though, Dennis Pombo, the #1 congressman/lobbyist for the pollution business. |
