Monday, June 28, 2021

The Tardy, Brief, Ketchup Wrangle from Far Left Texas

Not as long as you or I feared.  First, let's load the chuck wagons and pluck the cockleburrs out of our saddle blankets and rest up this long weekend ahead before the Legislature's new/old business comes due.


Some lawmakers -- particularly Democrats -- seem less than thrilled about it.


Governor Fish Lips (what? you hadn't noticed?) thinks he's being tricky.


Texas Dems have asked the SCOTX to decide whether his veto of Article X -- which funds the Lege's staff -- is constitutional.


In other dictatorial developments:


Wrong disaster.


The worm may have finally turned against Abbott and Ken Paxton last week; some things that happened were suggestive.


Indiana won their lawsuit just last week.  Kuff also weighed in on a couple of polls that show no great love for what the Repubs have been doing lately, and Grits for Breakfast called Abbott's vetoes "a final punch in the nose for the bipartisan criminal justice reform movement".

Honestly though, in a state unplagued with Trump Syndrome, a Democratic Party with some cojones and a plan might stand a chance of flipping something in 2022.


The vice president didn't help the cause in her visit last week.


When all else fails, send in the doctor.


The local Donks have a new chair.  According to former precinct chair J.R. Behrman, he's Nigerian.  They also censured a state representative for his conduct.


I'll wrap this Wrangle with a few things worth celebrating.


And also, as mentioned, my mother Jean, marking her 95th year (and amazing us all)!
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