Former diplomat and Democratic senator Adlai Stevenson once remarked that “a hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.” If so, this week in politics was nothing but the worst form of stump speeches.

In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) declared that the move by Texas Republicans to redistrict mid-decade was a "legal insurrection of our U.S. Capitol."

In Texas, Democratic State Rep. Jolanda Jones (D) must have felt "insurrection" did not quite capture the infamy. Instead, she insisted, “I will liken this to the Holocaust."

Others repeated the Democratic mantra that it was the death of democracy. That includes former President Barack Obama, who had said nothing when Democrats made his own state the most gerrymandered in the union.

In Illinois, surrounded by Texas legislators who had fled their state to prevent a legislative quorum, Gov. JB Pritzker (D) bellowed that gerrymandering was an attempt to “steal” congressional seats and to "disenfranchise people."

It did not matter that the stump Pritzker and Texas Democrats were standing on in Chicago is located the most gerrymandered state in the country. The redistricting law, signed by Pritzker left Republicans with just three of the state's 17 congressional seats, even though they won nearly half the votes in the last election.

What is missing in any of this is any sense of shame. The most telling........

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