Political surreality
May. 13th, 2003 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasTexas rangers have surrounded a Denny's in Oklahoma, and are in a standoff with fifty three Democratic State Representatives who are holed up inside.
I'm not making this up.
I'm not making this up.
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Date: 2003-05-13 05:14 am (UTC)They miss the fact that you can't force someone to partake in the political process. What the Democrats are doing is a valid method for stopping a vote.
I wish Texas would just frigging secede from the Union already.
Ridiculous cowboy politics....
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Date: 2003-05-13 05:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-13 07:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-13 08:15 am (UTC)http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/may/0513_texas_standstill.shtml
I like that one, because it's from the GOP.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_779839.html
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=995656
Okay, the way I phrased it was a little overdramatic, but it's more or less true.
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Date: 2003-05-13 08:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-13 08:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-13 09:10 am (UTC)It's not clear to me that GOPUSA is related to the Republican Party, despite the name. The website has little to no information on who actually runs it.