Saturday, January 02, 2021

A week-ending, year-beginning Lone Star Round-up *updated with Ted Cruz's latest folly


A tide-us-over in order for the regular Monday Wrangle to keep from going long.

Opening with the predictable bad-behaving leaders of our Great State: Greg Abbott, with the assist from Ken Paxton, has decided he's just going to take over running the city of Austin from its duly-elected mayor and city council.




They had lost in court before appealing to the SCOTX, but that didn't stop them from telling everyone in Travis County to just ignore that.


"Botched vaccine rollout", you say?  Tell me no.


The epitome of "markets work; governments don't", I suppose.  With all of these VIPs calling for grocer HEB to take over, it's just a matter of time before Ted Cruz or John Cornyn ask Jeff Bezos to assume control of the federal vaccine distribution effort.

While Americans go hungry and grow more desperate for assistance, Cornyn votes 'no' and then posts more pictures of food they cannot afford.


Meanwhile, Cruz defies Trump and mobilizes the GOP vote in Georgia this morning.


I wonder if he called for donations.


Update:


And Louie Gohmert took one last shot at trying to keep Trump president by suing Mike Pence (don't ask).  He missed.  I just don't know how much of this lunacy I will have the patience to report on in 2021.  Here's more listicles; some looking forward, some back.


Texas Freedom Network pointed out that there some good things that happened last year.


And stopping here with these until Monday.