Texas Redistricting Cost GOP

    You know what? you have to love those long-ranged GOP members. I'm speaking of Tom Delay. Thanks to his push for the redistricting that was done in Texas, the Democrats now will wield most of the power!

    Here is the story from the Dallas Morning News:

By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON – Two Texans managed to win junior leadership slots Friday as House Republicans picked the team they hope will return them to power. Both Texas senators also hold junior leadership slots. But Democrats are taking over Congress in January. And on that side of the aisle, it's a shutout for Texas.

Not a single Lone Star lawmaker will hold a top-ranked job, a far cry from the days when Fort Worth's Jim Wright was speaker, or the more recent years when Republicans Dick Armey and Tom DeLay served back-to-back terms setting the agenda as majority leader.

"It's a low point," said former Dallas congressman John Bryant, a Democrat. "It's not like it was, there's no question about that."  MORE