Salon.com | Joe Conason's Journal "House Speaker Tom Craddick can halt the work stoppage in Austin. All he has to do is play by the rules on redistricting ... Mr. Craddick should resist pressure from Congress to contaminate a generations-old census-based exercise by converting it into an ill-considered purely partisan power grab. He should commit to leave Texas' political boundaries alone, and protesting Democrats should promptly return to the hive."

This is response to the taunting of the Texas Democrats running to Oklahoma (Streak suggests this was a good move as he has only heard bad stuff about Texas). Joe Conason's Journal in Salon reports the kind of no-holds barred approach that Tom Delay has taken to redistricting. Again, as Streak has noted numerous times, Delay's Christian faith seems completely distanced from his penchant for punishing people or doing whatever he wants. Streak has also pointed out that while the Texas Dems should have not fled the state to avoid their duty, that the Texas GOP should take some responsibility. Streak is rarely wrong on issues like this.