They really try to Hammer 'the Hammer' don't they ??
I bet Delay didn't miss 36 of 38 votes THEN like Kerry
has this year !!From the article:
Never mind that a plan was already in place and had been used in 2002: That didn't suit the Republicans, and it really didn't suit one of the party's most unrelenting hard-liners, U.S. House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay.
The former exterminator knew he couldn't put all the state's Democratic congressmen and women out of business, however much he might have liked to do so. However, to his hyper-partisan way of thinking, it was nothing short of outrageous that, going into the 2004 elections, Texas Democrats still outnumbered Texas Republicans in the House, 17-15.
Thus, DeLay - who evidently could spare the time from his Washington duties - became the prime mover in a campaign to toss out the redistricting plan approved by a panel of federal judges (after the Legislature could not agree on a formula).
