Texas Repubs vote for fines against runaway Dems

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http://www.statesman.com/legislature/content/coxnet/texas/legislature/0803/0812vote.html

I love this story because the Republicans hate it so much and there's nothing they can do about it.

[DagmarK]

1. Yeah, and if the dems don't pay......

are the repukes going to put liens on their houses or something? Freeze their bank accounts?

boy...they really want the perrymandering......

[HFishbine]

2. What Arrogance

"But Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, and one of several GOP senators who stood with Dewhurst at his news conference, intervened and said, "I'm not sure we can deny them the vote, but we haven't made that decision yet."

The arrogance is astounding! They actually think they have any authority to deny a duley elected representative the right to vote? Good God this makes me sick.

[northzax]

3. this is great

California and Texas, our two most influential states, have become banana republics.

wonderful. I certainly don't relish having to explain to my children what the US used to be like.

[samsingh]

7. don't forget Florida

the biggest banana republic of all

[northzax]

9. yeah, but florida

has always been fucked up. this is nothing new, the place has been crooked for decades. we can live with one bastard stepchild of a state, but if two of the three most populour join it, we have issues.

[Gman]

4. BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!

How can the Senate do ANYTHING LEGAL without a QUORUM??????

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ohio Dem]

6. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Why don't they just vote to redistrict, too, while they're at it? Because the can't. They don't have a quorum.

And I don't see how they can vote to fine their eleven colleagues, either.

[FlashHarry]

5. Hilarious!

Watch your LBN rules, by the way. Please use the actual headline of the piece as your subject line.

Oh, and.... Welcome to DU! :hi:

[fertilizeonarbusto]

8. can we take up a collection?

I certainly consider this a worthy cause.

[northzax]

10. sure, for the legal fees

this will get struck down by any state or federal court worth it's salt.

[grytpype]

11. No. The Killer Ds should refuse to pay one nickel of this "fine."

[dfong63]

12. i didn't know this

from the article,

Only two of the Democrats-in-exile are white. All of the Senate Republicans are white.

adds another dimension to this fascinating story.

[sonias]

13. Yes this is a very important fight

And the Democrats are right to frame this fine as a poll tax. What the repukes, without a legal quorum, have done is said the Democrats will not be allowed to vote in the Senate when they return unless these fines are paid. This is a poll tax, and the fact that a majority of the senators who are taking a stand in New Mexico are minority is not a coincidence. This fight is about voting rights, pure and simple. The repukes want to kill the voting rights act and the fight has started in Texas. That act expires in 3 years and the repukes aim to kill it once and for all.

Take a look at the racial overtones that the repukes have taken. David Dewhurst is our Lt. Governor in Texas and he presides in the Senate.

Dewhurst's spokesman apologizes for remarks
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2044976
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Instead, Beckwith said, "they got captured by the Democratic National Committee blowing smoke up their rears and telling them what great Americans they were. So now they've gone from making a statement to `doing the right thing.' They think they are Rosa Parks II."
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Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said he was offended by Beckwith's remarks, which he described as "besmirching the memory of Rosa Parks" -- apparently a reference to the memory of her civil rights activities. Parks, 90, lives in Michigan.

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Their dark and evil true repuke selves are shining through loud and clear.

Sonia

[LiberalFighter]

14. Republican Attorney General...

is full of shit

Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, told Dewhurst in a Tuesday letter that senators have no constitutional right to break a quorum and that "remaining senators may impose penalties to compel their attendance."


** They should seek to disbar the ass **