Representative Awful

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[MAWG]

And I thought Sheila Jackson Lee was retarded. McKinney is one dumb bitch! A real credit to her race.

[TomGuy]

"I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration Cynthia McKinney or her staff have personally profited from the attacks of 9-11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case."

[thucydides]

Let's face it folks. This is what you get from the practice of gerrymandering all the democrat (in this case, black) voters into a few districts, thereby creating safe seats for republicans all across Georgia. Nevertheless, McKinney is horrible reflection on the intelligence and decency of her constituents.

[DownWithGreenspan]

Yeah, that Republican-controlled Georgia legislature sure did a great job of packing the Democrats into those districts in the 1990's. < /sarcasm>

You have to be joking, right?

DWG

[Henchster]

FOX NEWS ALERT!

Tony Snow has a piece on the B!tch being trashed by Senators Cleland and Miller (both Dems) on right now!

[thucydides]

Everybody cooperated in creating safe districts by putting all the democrat voters in certain districts, and all the republican voters in others.

[LibertarianLiz]

I don't mean to be such a pain in the ass to Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.), but it appears this is the fastest route to her brain.

Okay, this has to be one of the best opening lines ever.

[DownWithGreenspan]

Perhaps there was some cooperation, but I doubt it was the intention of the partisan Democrat Georgia legislature to wind up with 8 Republicans and 3 Democrats (all black).

Doubt their partisanship? Or truly believe in cooperation? Well, just look at the partisan, racist gerrymander they've come up with THIS time around!

IIRC, back in 1991 Newt Gingrich (who at the time was the ONLY Republican in the GA delegation) was shrewd enough to throw the GOP weight (such as it was) behind the interpretation of the so-called "Voting Rights Act" that appeared to mandate a certain number of minority districts.

Newt knew what the longer-range outcome would be - and he sure was right - while the partisan racists figured the delegation would be 10-1 forever. Like the rest of the loony left, they were 100% blindsided by 1994.

Fast forward to 2002, and the libs have learned their lesson in Georgia, coming up with the most hideous plan yet seen in this round of redistricting (it's this round's "Texas"), while here in Pennsylvania a couple of liberal scumbag judges want to scrap the Republican plan because population counts in the new districts vary by as much as 19 entire persons (or about .001 of a percent). Or so they claim - the real reason, of course, is that we don't dare implement a plan that hurts the commies.

DWG

[Duke Nukum]

McKinney's hypocrisy is so concentrated it could eat through metal.

Nothing to add, really. I just really, really liked this line.

[Liz]

.......(a) fellow Georgian came to her defense. "She's not as random
as people think," McKinney's friend Jack Kingston (R., Ga.) says.....

Mr Kingston apparently got his tongue caught in a hush puppie. He's reissued his statement to
correct his mischaracterization. "Miss McKinney is not as rancid as people think, " he asserted.

[breakem]

What makes seemingly "normal democrats" get up in the morning and vote for a piece of crap like this? Do they run out of run-of-the-mill liberals? Can't they import from Mass?

[mwl1]

The Georgia GOP should tie her to Max Cleland immediately. Today, if not sooner.

[Movemout]

"This is what you get from the practice of gerrymandering all the democrat (in this case, black) voters into a few districts, thereby creating safe seats for republicans all across Georgia"

I wish it were so simple. This is what you get for giving everyone a vote. Your theory doesn't explain the elections of Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Barb Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Mister Rangel, Jesse Jackson Jr, Hillary Clinton, numerous governors, and a cast of thousands of local shake and bakes. The fact is that some people by their sheer ignorance do not merit the privelege of a vote in an election. They are unable to weigh the consequences of their vote. Thomas Jefferson was correct in his assessment of the general public's ability to understand the meaning of a constitutional republic. The 17th Amendment was another bad move from a strategic point of view. As we move from republic to empire I am profoundly disturbed by the similarities to the "Bread and Circus" syndrome that so badly afflicted the Romans.

[bourbon]

What are the chances that this woman will be thrown out on her a** in the next election b/c of this disgraceful episode?

the sad truth is, considering her district and the poor record of black voters in tossing out Democratic incumbents for ANY REASON, that there's very little chance of this.

Now here's a much more frightening thought. Perhaps she saying this b/c it's what her constituency believes? or what they want to hear? I sincerely hope this isnt' true.

When thinking about this, we might do well to remember the polling data from a few years ago that revealed that a sizable proportion of the black community (33%?) believed that AIDS had been created by white doctors in an effort to destroy the black race.

[desertcry]

This stupid representative awful is just a tool by the democrats to try to smear the President, because they have no issue that has gain any traction, and November is coming down fast. mckinney is a perfect stoodge, she is black, a woman, and an idiot. Everybody knows that blacks, and more over a woman, can not be made accountable for any wrong doing. The demons can not lose. Very smart move by daschle, and the bitch, eh.

[MAWG]

??? You want to translate that into english for us ?

[thucydides]

There was one man shown on Fox News last night, a black from her district, who deplored her conduct. Over against that is the likelihood that most don't even know what their rep does, and only care that she is black.

[thucydides]

I would agree that the expansion of suffrage has done little to improve the quality of elections, especially allowing people to vote who have little or no property and who look to the government for benefits, or work for the government. However, the prevalence of loonies is certainly in part explicable by the practice of gerrymandering, especially types like Maxine Waters, Major Lewis, and Cynthia McKinney.