Petition to recall DeLay attracts 200 signatures in first three days

The petition I started a few days ago to oust Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay - probably the most fascist member of Congress who is a major force behind the recent move to redistrict Texas eight years early to grab more Republican seats in Congress - is up to 208 signatures.
To sign the petition to remove DeLay from office, go to http://www.petitiononline.com/tdl0000/petition.html. You do NOT have to be a Texas resident to sign that one – I plan to deliver copies of the signatures to DeLay myself, as well as to key media members and political activists in his district who can start the process of removing DeLay more directly.
I’ve communicated with people in the district who are happy about this petition and are trying to fund a well-known Democrat against DeLay in 2004. Probably any move to impeach him would take longer than a year, but I still think we need to start that process, if just to keep the issue in the public's eye.
And if California Republicans can blame Democratic Gov. Gray Davis for all of that state’s problems and try to recall him, Texans can turn the tables and blame Republican Gov. and Bush Ass-Kisser Rick Perry for the state's $10 billion budget shortfall, wasting millions on special sessions for partisan political purposes and other problems. While the Texas Constitution doesn't allow for recall of a governor, that hasn't stopped some Texans from launching a petition drive to remove Perry from office.
The petition against Perry is up to 432 signatures - it was 277 before I started sending out email about it last Friday. Even if the fascists in Texas won’t allow us to recall the governor, the petition will give some indication of people's disapproval of Perry. It’s still important.
To sign the petition to oust Perry, go to http://www.e-thepeople.org/petition/7225/view. It would help if you are a Texas resident to sign it, but if not, perhaps you know a Texan to whom you can email the petition.
The Texas Democratic Party has also organized a petition to stop the redistricting of Congressional seats eight years too early. It’s at http://www.savetexasreps.com/petition.php.
I also heard from someone in Florida who is starting a recall petition against Gov. Jeb Bush and perhaps some Republican Congress members there – Katherine Harris, I hope. We need more people to start recall petitions against Republican governors and other officials.
For a story I wrote on these petition drives, click on:
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/14281.php.

In another sign that some Republicans enjoy sadistic S&M sex, they send leashes to courageous Texas Democrats

Want more evidence of some Republicans’ weird sexual preferences? The Texas Republican Party has organized a mailing drive to the Democratic state senators who fled to New Mexico in a courageous move to block the Republicans’ power play to grab more Congressional seats eight years too early. The petty aholes are sending the senators diapers, baby rattlers and even leashes. The leashes might be considered particularly weird unless you know that some Republicans are known to engage in sadistic S&M sexual sessions that involve a lot more than leashes – remember the S&M leader the Bush State Dept. recommended for a UN job last year? See http://www.texasgop.org/newsroom/newsDisplay.php?id=2637 for the news release.
Texas GOP leaders are calling the Democrats who stopped their power game “babies” just because they won’t let the Republican babies control ALL of the toys in the sandbox. This is typical of the leadership of the Texas Republican Party, which is about as fascist and idiotic and extreme and crazy and immature a wing as you will find in the country.
Not to mention these Republicans are wasting money and resources and post office time on stupid stuff - why don't they do something positive and help more low-income kids get health insurance? No, they'd rather drastically cut poor kids' health insurance and make these kids get sick and die so they won't clutter up the streets upon which they drive and the malls in which they shop. These Republicans are such immoral, callous, selfish aholes, and I can't say that enough.....
Some tell me I shouldn’t get down to the petty Republicans’ levels and call them names and try to turn the tables with petitions and investigate their personal sex lives and such. Well, I can let some things go, but there comes a time when you have to fight back with everything you have. And if that means getting a little dirt on my hands, so be it.
One problem I see with some Democrats, especially mainstream leaders, is that they spend too much time backpedaling and reacting to what Republicans do and playing defense. Democrats need to take the offensive more. They need to play offense a lot more. When I played basketball for my high school and junior college teams, I played offense with more enthusiasm than defense. I loved to score. I also loved to dunk the basketball.
So I take that same enthusiasm for offense when I engage in politics these days. I imagine my basketball being the heads of Bush or Cheney or Perry or DeLay or some other petty Republican ahole and me dunking their heads DOWN through the goal. That’s just my nature. That’s how I like to play the game.
I’d much rather get beat in a high-scoring thriller where I take my best shots and my opponent KNOWS he’s in a fight for his life than a low-scoring, lifeless match where I sit back, afraid to take a shot for fear of missing or making a mistake. I know politics is not the same as a sport – there are lives and more important issues at stake – but I just think it’s better to be offensive-minded than defensive-minded.

Jackson Thoreau is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html.