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For all the news on the Texas “Killer-D’s”, the 51 Texas House Democrats who left the state to sabotage the Republican’s redistricting plans,
take a look at The Burnt Orange Report.

Daily Kos on paranoia:

p.s. It’s becoming more in vogue to say “if there are elections next year”. Jeez, please don’t pull the “black helicopter” spiel on us! There will be elections. I don’t like Bush, but no one is about to upsurp the Constitution and cancel elections. Lay a bit off the paranoia, please.

And in any case, such defeatism is ridiculous. We should be getting pumped up to take on the GOP and its Mighty Wurlitzer. This will be a DIRTY election, an outright war, and we will need all the bodies and resources we can muster.

The GOP didn’t need to cancel an election to make its gains in 2002. It used good ol’ fashioned bodies on the ground. That’s where 2004 will be fought — in the metaphorical trenches. If you want to be deafeatist, by all means, it’s your right. But please spare the rest of us busy preparing for the looming battle.

He’s right folks. The elections won’t be cancelled, but they will be manipulated. We saw it in Florida during the 2000 elections (and not only in Florida) with illegal purgings of probable Democratic voters of the voting rolls, with unreliable voting equipment being the norm in Democratic leaning districts, but not in Republican leaning districts, with uncontrollable electronic voting systems installed without audit trails and even with
*police roadblocks* in front of voting bureaus! (More info…)

If y’all let them, they’ll do it again.

Hullabaloo on Democrats supporting each other:

The problem is not Daschle?s lack of courage. It?s the Democrats? failure to stand together even though they know full well that the whole thing is bullshit and that Rove is playing politics. This non-stop criticism and derision of Democratic politicians? character is only helping the GOP, and they are quite adept at assassinating the characters of Democrats without our help.

Hullabaloo on how the Democrats could profit from the Republicans’ bigotry:

Democrats simply have to stop talking about ?programs? all the time and speak in bigger terms. In this case, they must reach those suburban women who are their natural constituency on these social issues by using language of family, psychology and community. They need to say that “traditional American values” means the freedom to be who you are (a huge majority of Americans do NOT believe that they have the right to pass judgments on other people?s personal lives.) They need to say “Lott/Santorum” like it?s one word, over and over again. They need to remind audiences that every gay person has a mom and a dad and siblings and friends and co-workers, just like they do.

Rantavation is doing a series on the resegregationism of the US school system:

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV

So why is this “resegregationism?” Aside from the idea of “separate without any provisions for being equal,” which might be more honest than “separate but equal” but not in any way, shape or form different. We are standing on the edge of not only creating, but mandating “soft segregation” in our school system. Sucking out public money to fund private schools guarantees that public schools will find themselves in a increasing death spiral–getting worse and worse and making more and more parents pull their children–and their funds–into private schools until the public schools are only the poverty-stricken mirrors of the neighborhoods they’re left in.