Republicans
The Right, the Left and the Ugly: Fear and Loathing in White America
Submitted by Southern Shift on Mon, 2010-03-15 01:24 Authored by Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report Original Article
When President George Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first, unsuccessfully, attempted to ram a Bank Bail Out through the U.S. House in late September 2008, only one-third of Republicans and three-fifths of Democrats voted for the measure. The Congressional Black Caucus was opposed, 21 to 18, with the more progressive CBC members mostly voting No. Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich asked, "Is this the U.S. Congress or the board of directors at Goldman Sachs?" Two-thirds of the GOP Caucus bucked their president.
Gerrymandering, A New Documentary Film
gerrymander: To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
Gerrymandering is a new documentary film that will examine the conspiracy of partisan redistricting - a legislative technique that allows politicians to manipulate electoral boundaries and influence elections for decades at a time.
