Lots of things to do today -- blockwalking for the Wendy Davis campaign in my precinct again this morning, a Green statewide candidate fundraiser this evening. Some things that I meant to blog, or blog more about...
-- Tom DeLay plans on returning to DC as a politician, but first he needs to sue the Travis County DA for corruption. Such rich irony.
I wrote so much about El Cucaracho Grande in the early years of Brains. That protest we had in front of the Hilton at the 2005 NRA convention was off the hook. I even went down to Pasadena and stood in the sleet at 7 a.m. at an elementary school and pushed cards for Richard Morrison, who ran against him in 2004. This post, one of the top ten most-clicked here -- it was search-engine optimized, as you can perhaps tell -- appears to have been the last thing I blogged on the topic (that wasn't about Dancing with the Stars).
I knew after the first appeals court white-washed his criminal record that he would skate. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals -- about which I have written more recently -- is nothing if not consistent. And that court and its judges are, it should be emphasized, the actual problem in Texas with respect to the infestation of corrupt Republicans that pervades the state's body politic. Tom DeLay -- and Greg Abbott and Rick Perry and Louie Gohmert and Sid Miller and all of the rest of the worst conservatives money can buy -- are just symptoms of that problem.
My Cuban in-laws used to say of Fidel Castro: "bicho malo nunca muerte". A bad bug never dies. Truer words were never spoken of either man.
-- The only Democrat on the Texas CCA, Lawrence Meyers (he was a Republican until recently), is suing Texas over the voter/photo ID law. This news gives Texans who are not Republicans hope for a better, more just Texas.
-- But progress comes slowly, and often there is regression before progress can be resumed.
Women's clinics in Texas are closing, the burdens being created for Texas women to exercise their rights to choice are harsh and undue, and the worst is yet to come. The next step will be the Texas Legislature passing a bill in 2015 that outlaws abortions in Texas, even in cases of rape or incest. Governor Greg Abbott will sign it. After that, the focus will shift to criminalizing the perpetrators of abortion. Specifically, capital punishment. This should not surprise anybody when it occurs.
Update: Think Progress gets it: The ultimate goal of the Texas abortion law (HB2, as it's called) is having the Supremes overturn Roe v. Wade. As Charles reminds, elections have consequences.
And then they will go after the gays. I expect the Legislature to try to void equal rights city ordinances like Houston's and San Antonio's with bills written next year. We should see nothing less than legislation crafted by the people who wish for a Christian caliphate coming out of the Lege next session... that is, if they can elbow the corporate lawyers and lobbyists out of their way in the stampede up the Great Walk. The rightest of the right will have a super-majority in Austin next year. They can do whatever they like. The only real fight will be between the Fundys and the Corporatists.
All of these developments suggest a bright economic future for barristers on both sides of the aisle.
-- Tom DeLay plans on returning to DC as a politician, but first he needs to sue the Travis County DA for corruption. Such rich irony.
I wrote so much about El Cucaracho Grande in the early years of Brains. That protest we had in front of the Hilton at the 2005 NRA convention was off the hook. I even went down to Pasadena and stood in the sleet at 7 a.m. at an elementary school and pushed cards for Richard Morrison, who ran against him in 2004. This post, one of the top ten most-clicked here -- it was search-engine optimized, as you can perhaps tell -- appears to have been the last thing I blogged on the topic (that wasn't about Dancing with the Stars).
I knew after the first appeals court white-washed his criminal record that he would skate. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals -- about which I have written more recently -- is nothing if not consistent. And that court and its judges are, it should be emphasized, the actual problem in Texas with respect to the infestation of corrupt Republicans that pervades the state's body politic. Tom DeLay -- and Greg Abbott and Rick Perry and Louie Gohmert and Sid Miller and all of the rest of the worst conservatives money can buy -- are just symptoms of that problem.
My Cuban in-laws used to say of Fidel Castro: "bicho malo nunca muerte". A bad bug never dies. Truer words were never spoken of either man.
-- The only Democrat on the Texas CCA, Lawrence Meyers (he was a Republican until recently), is suing Texas over the voter/photo ID law. This news gives Texans who are not Republicans hope for a better, more just Texas.
-- But progress comes slowly, and often there is regression before progress can be resumed.
Women's clinics in Texas are closing, the burdens being created for Texas women to exercise their rights to choice are harsh and undue, and the worst is yet to come. The next step will be the Texas Legislature passing a bill in 2015 that outlaws abortions in Texas, even in cases of rape or incest. Governor Greg Abbott will sign it. After that, the focus will shift to criminalizing the perpetrators of abortion. Specifically, capital punishment. This should not surprise anybody when it occurs.
Update: Think Progress gets it: The ultimate goal of the Texas abortion law (HB2, as it's called) is having the Supremes overturn Roe v. Wade. As Charles reminds, elections have consequences.
And then they will go after the gays. I expect the Legislature to try to void equal rights city ordinances like Houston's and San Antonio's with bills written next year. We should see nothing less than legislation crafted by the people who wish for a Christian caliphate coming out of the Lege next session... that is, if they can elbow the corporate lawyers and lobbyists out of their way in the stampede up the Great Walk. The rightest of the right will have a super-majority in Austin next year. They can do whatever they like. The only real fight will be between the Fundys and the Corporatists.
All of these developments suggest a bright economic future for barristers on both sides of the aisle.
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I said on my blog, way back, that it's too bad Bug Man didn't accidentally point the spray nozzle in the wrong direction, long before he got elected to Congress. The accidental suicide would have been welcome.
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And, Cuban in-laws ... OK, hence the interest in Cuban restaurants, from when you were in Austin this spring.
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