Monks Jazz Club
If Republicans Are So Pervasive, Why Redistrict?
RECEIVED Tue., Oct. 21, 2003
So – the incessant anti-redistricting drumbeat continues. The kicking and screaming by the faithful of the Democratic Party, an organization that for more than a century enjoyed total control in Texas, is unseemly and pitiful to behold.
These howling Democrats in the tiny liberal island of Austin would have us believe that Tom DeLay, Rick Perry, and David Dewhurst have dreamed up and implemented this political reality check all by themselves. Well, here's a news flash: There's a rising conservative sea surrounding Austin, literally millions of grassroots Republicans unalterably opposed to the discredited tax-and-spend philosophies of a party whose giveaway programs of the past 50 years have "bought" votes while creating welfare class problems that plague our nation today.
As the Democratic hold on Austin is inexorably weakened, Lloyd Doggett is probably quietly mouthing the words of that old Johnny Cash song: "How high's the water, Mama?"
These howling Democrats in the tiny liberal island of Austin would have us believe that Tom DeLay, Rick Perry, and David Dewhurst have dreamed up and implemented this political reality check all by themselves. Well, here's a news flash: There's a rising conservative sea surrounding Austin, literally millions of grassroots Republicans unalterably opposed to the discredited tax-and-spend philosophies of a party whose giveaway programs of the past 50 years have "bought" votes while creating welfare class problems that plague our nation today.
As the Democratic hold on Austin is inexorably weakened, Lloyd Doggett is probably quietly mouthing the words of that old Johnny Cash song: "How high's the water, Mama?"
Phil Brandt
