California Gov. AHNOLD is about to take a ballot initiative to the people concerning gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering in California is nothing new. It's been happening around the country since the country began. Remember the recent debacle in Texas when the Democrats ran off to Oklahoma to keep from being defeated in voting on the new districts? What a joke.
There was a district in North Carolina that looked like someone had opened the doors of a car and driven down I-85 to create it. Following the beach for about 200 miles made the district that started all the fuss in California.
Why can't voting districts be made out of groups of two or three cities or counties without one party trying to get a leg up on the other by manipulating voting districts?
Maybe what we really need is a third political party. (Not something like Ross Perot tried to start. I can't believe I voted for him. That giant sucking sound turned out to be him pulling out of the race.)
We can call the new party the "Green America Party" (blue states plus red states make green. Clever huh?). We will simply ask a third of all the Senators and Representatives to switch to the new party for the good of the country. (Of course they could volunteer to join it they wanted.) The party would ideally be comprised of left-leaning Republicans and right-leaning Democrats (if any can be found to own up to that designation).
I have more ideas.
How about the losing presidential candidate becoming the vice president? Oh I like that idea. Talk about compromise.
Here's another; make Congress vote on each subject in a bill individually. No more attaching the pork barrel expenditure to the bill funding the Blind Orphans Minority Inner City Health Clinics. Imagine, if you will, the announcement from the Speaker of the House;
OKAY, ALL IN FAVOR OF $30 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A MUSEUM FOR THE HISTORY OF CAT BREEDING IN ALASKA, RAISE YOUR HAND!
Yeah, this could happen.
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