Top headline: Governing, 10/18/2022
Graphic: Kaiser Family Foundation
Bottom headline: Washington Post, 4/28/2023
Republicans show their true colors (excerpt from WaPo):
Republican lawmakers have supermajorities — which allow them to override governors’ vetoes and pass virtually any piece of legislation without a single Democratic vote — in at least one chamber of the state legislatures in all former confederate states except Georgia, Texas and Virginia. In North Carolina and Louisiana, a Democrat in each legislature recently flipped to the GOP, giving Republicans a supermajority to overturn potential vetoes by their Democratic governors.
And even in Georgia and Texas, where Republicans are just shy of supermajorities, they nonetheless control both Houses, both Senates and the governorships. Black politicians and activists say that Republican lawmakers have used racial gerrymandering and voter suppression to secure those majorities and are using their political might to further consolidate power among mostly White Republicans.
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of snooker, as in the verb sense to make a dupe:HOODWINK, occurred in 1925.
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