[Old Man G Funk]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/22/AR2006012200984.html

The Justice Department's voting section, a small and usually obscure unit that enforces the Voting Rights Act and other federal election laws, has been thrust into the center of a growing debate over recent departures and controversial decisions in the Civil Rights Division as a whole.

Many current and former lawyers in the section charge that senior officials have exerted undue political influence in many of the sensitive voting-rights cases the unit handles. Most of the department's major voting-related actions over the past five years have been beneficial to the GOP, they say, including two in Georgia, one in Mississippi and a Texas redistricting plan orchestrated by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) in 2003.

 

[ohio]

I'm shocked. Oh, wait, no I'm not.

 

[Changleen]

Do people actually not care about this, or is it just to complicated for the average idiot?

 

[kidwoo]

I like toast.

 

[reflux]

Do people actually not care about this, or is it just to complicated for the average idiot?

The Republican Party has positioned itself as God's party. Therefore, the average American assumes it's all gravy because they think that's what Gawd would've wanted.

To quote Silver, "religion is the lube that politicians use..."

 

[Tenchiro]

It seems that apathy is the new American way.

 

[reflux]

It seems that apathy is the new American way, except when it comes to gun control.

Fixed

 

[BurlyShirley]

So the opposition has "charged" something. Dont they always do that about everything?

 

[fluff]

So the opposition has "charged" something. Dont they always do that about everything?

Since when did staff become opposition?

 

[Reactor]

Since when did staff become opposition?

Anytime they aren't lock step with GW.

 

[Old Man G Funk]

Since when did staff become opposition?

Agreed.

These are civil service employees we are talking about, not politically appointed.