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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (751302)	10/7/2006 8:47:32 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

An unfortunate misdirection stifling reform: While a complicated guarantor of states rights over federal tyranny, gerrymandering, unfortunately, tends to prolong the death rattle of failed movements like the anti-American Democrat left. States will only outlaw it when they can see their neighbors putting themselves at the same disadvantage. Outlawing it globally WITHOUT amending the federal constitution creates a tyranny far more dangerous than gerrymandering. The greatest harm done by gerrymandering is to divert public attention away from the imperitive of TERM LIMITS, which would, among other things, minimize the harm of gerrymandering (and, by it's nature, bring about the only LEGITIMATE campaign finance "reform".) It is, as an example, the career longevity of House Black Caucus members that endangers America. The fact that their seats are created and preserved by old-fashioned (though bi-partisan) gerrymandering would present nothing but an irritant if the individuals were limited to 6 to 10 years, then had to got get real jobs...