Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) skewered former President Barack Obama for his "sanctimonious" hypocrisy as Obama spoke out about a proposed Texas redistricting map.
Obama decided he needed to weigh in after Texas Democrats fled the state to deny the state's legislature a quorum, which is necessary to pass the proposed congressional map that would give Republicans five more seats in the 2026 midterms.
In a post on X, he wrote, "We can't lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year's midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy."
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The former president's post linked to a call to action by Democrats for people to speak out about the redistricting.
In response, Cotton pointed out the ridiculousness of Obama trying to take some kind of moral high ground in the matter, sharing a map that the former president supported in Illinois that 100 percent helps Democrats and hurts Republicans.
"Obama is as dishonest as he is sanctimonious," Cotton wrote on X. "Here's a map that Obama supports because it helps Democrats."
"But Republicans 'undermine democracy' when we follow the Democrats' lead," he added.
As if Cotton's point doesn't accurately point out how insane it is that Obama is adding his two cents to the issue, my RedState colleague Rusty Weiss reported about a past initiative that suggests he was part of an early effort to help Democrats engage in their own gerrymandering.
The report was about how Obama teamed up with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) to create a program known as "Redistricting U" in 2019.
Obama, in announcing the effort, said he could not "wait to begin organizing when the redistricting process starts in 2021," adding, "we need to build this movement from the ground up–right now."
As Weiss noted, the redistricting that Obama was most excited about involved Illinois.
He wrote:
Illinois Democrats, with full control of the redistricting process, proposed a congressional map in October 2021 that aimed to secure 14 of the state's 17 House seats for Democrats, despite Republicans arguing it was a "shameless gerrymander."
An alternative map, floated by Democratic operatives, was even more aggressive, potentially limiting Republicans to just two seats.
Obama's not the only Democrat showing utter hypocrisy when it comes to this issue. Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey has threatened to redistrict her state. The only problem, as The Blaze noted in the post below, is that a "Republican hasn't been elected as a U.S. representative in Massachusetts in 30 years."
Our sister site, Townhall.com's Larry O'Connor also shared a map of MA's redistricting, showing Democrats' hypocrisy.
"A reminder: This was the 2022 redistricting that Massachusetts did," O'Connor wrote.
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker tried to speak about Texas redistricting, and on Tuesday night, it was CBS' "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert who pointed to Pritzker's crazy gerrymandered state, which has allowed Democrats to remain in power for decades.
As the post above concludes, "Yet another reason Pritzker spends more time messing things up than helping Illinois residents."
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