Unlike the Democrats, the GOP are wasting no time.

[Remington]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-investigate-scientific-fraud-global-warming-report/

Fresh off a dramatic victory in which it retook the House leadership, the Republican Party intends to hold major hearings probing the supposed "scientific fraud" behind global warming.

The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder related the news in a little-noticed article Wednesday morning.

The effort is a likely attempt to out-step the White House on energy policy moving forward. Legislation on energy and climate change reform, one of President Barack Obama campaign promises, has yet to materialize, though Obama's EPA recently classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

Holding hearings would please the Republicans' conservative base, which increasingly doubts the scientific basis for global warming -- especially human-induced global warming -- and provide a reflection of the new GOP's tenor.

AMERICA WANTED IT
AMERICA'S GETTING IT

[Doktor Howl]

They're also trying to make Gerrymandering a federal thing.

Saves all the trouble of getting elected over and over again, I guess.

[Juana]

  It begins already.

[Kurt Christ]

They're also trying to make Gerrymandering a federal thing.

Saves all the trouble of getting elected over and over again, I guess.

How? I haven't heard this one.

[Doktor Howl]

They're also trying to make Gerrymandering a federal thing.

Saves all the trouble of getting elected over and over again, I guess.

How? I haven't heard this one.

http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=596802&page=1&gonew=1#UNREAD

Done at state level, organized at the federal level, illegal as hell.

[Doktor Howl]

They're also trying to make Gerrymandering a federal thing.

Saves all the trouble of getting elected over and over again, I guess.

How? I haven't heard this one.

http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=596802&page=1&gonew=1#UNREAD

Done at state level, organized at the federal level, illegal as hell.

ETA:  Rumors only at the moment.

[Salty]

It begins already.

Seems like there was only a small lull between democrat incompetence and the high fiber powered bowel-movement machine that is the republican party. Frankly I'm glad democrats can take the thumbs out of their asses and do what they do best, groan loudly for sympathy votes while republicans eat us alive.

[Disco Pickle]

They're also trying to make Gerrymandering a federal thing.

Saves all the trouble of getting elected over and over again, I guess.

How? I haven't heard this one.

http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=596802&page=1&gonew=1#UNREAD

Done at state level, organized at the federal level, illegal as hell.

ETA:  Rumors only at the moment.

redrawing the districts here in FL was on the ballot. 

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

[Doktor Howl]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

[Disco Pickle]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

all of the above is baiting.

the people who actually live there.  is that too difficult to understand?

[Doktor Howl]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

all of the above is baiting.

the people who actually live there.  is that too difficult to understand?

Yes.  What's wrong with leaving the districts the way they are, if you're not actually adding any representatives?

[Disco Pickle]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

all of the above is baiting.

the people who actually live there.  is that too difficult to understand?

Yes.  What's wrong with leaving the districts the way they are, if you're not actually adding any representatives?

fair enough.

every state is vastly under represented in congress based on population growth.

[EDIT]

well..  not EVERY state.

[Doktor Howl]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

all of the above is baiting.

the people who actually live there.  is that too difficult to understand?

Yes.  What's wrong with leaving the districts the way they are, if you're not actually adding any representatives?

fair enough.

every state is vastly under represented in congress based on population growth.

[EDIT]

well..  not EVERY state.

Gerrymandering isn't moving district lines to add representatives.

It's moving district lines to influence elections.

[Disco Pickle]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

all of the above is baiting.

the people who actually live there.  is that too difficult to understand?

Yes.  What's wrong with leaving the districts the way they are, if you're not actually adding any representatives?

fair enough.

every state is vastly under represented in congress based on population growth.

[EDIT]

well..  not EVERY state.

Gerrymandering isn't moving district lines to add representatives.

It's moving district lines to influence elections.

and it works both ways.

[Doktor Howl]

How is redrawing the districts to reflect the real demographics a problem?

Wait.

You want to redraw districts based on what?  Income?  Race?  What?

all of the above is baiting.

the people who actually live there.  is that too difficult to understand?

Yes.  What's wrong with leaving the districts the way they are, if you're not actually adding any representatives?

fair enough.

every state is vastly under represented in congress based on population growth.

[EDIT]

well..  not EVERY state.

Gerrymandering isn't moving district lines to add representatives.

It's moving district lines to influence elections.

and it works both ways.

Oh, well, that makes everything okay.  So when you have a major, nation-wide shift in politics, it's okay for the victor to change districts across the board to keep the other party from ever having a fair chance of being elected again?

Nice.