Monday, February 07, 2022

Thawing-out Wrangle from Far Left Texas


These pens are full.


Yes, there were outages, but it was mostly of the icy wire and wind variety.  Austin got the cobblestone frozen streets and is boiling water until tomorrow night; there were some mad truckers on I-10 in the Hill Country, but none of those things are going to tip Governor Helen Wheels' chair.  Thus Beto's message shifted to ... PTSD.


There's a fresh talking point, but O'Rourke probably doesn't want to go there.


Tough break for Beto.  He was met with derision at his rally last night in Denton County, and his supporters clashed with some counter-protestors.


I suppose that will be my segue to the Tex-Cons behaving badly.


Once again however, Texas Democrats couldn't leave the embarrassment to Team Red.


And for the record let's note that the corruption is often bipartisan.


I take it that those bloggers who focus exclusively on Houston and Harris County won't be mentioning this story, so let me remind them -- and you, dear reader -- that El Franco Lee, RIP, died in office a few years ago with a million bucks in the bank, and the biggest complaint I read was how little he did to help Democrats down the ballot in all his years on commissioners' court.

Yeah.  The corruption is also non-partisan, unless someone knows what this guy's politics are.


One last political item.


None of these three people, as it turns out (scroll down), meets the definition of 'progressive'.  But if the Congresswoman who leads the Squad is successful in adding a couple of new members, do you think they will finally be able to accomplish something?  Beyond tweeting platitudes, I mean.

A couple of COVID updates, since I haven't posted anything in awhile.


And the environmental updates.  First: there was a consequence of the freeze in Texas City.


We already knew that the TCEQ -- under sunset review -- isn't monitoring emissions before and after winter storms, hurricanes, and the like.  This bureaucracy doesn't need reform; it needs to be abolished, reimagined, and reconstituted with actual environmentalists, not government toadies.


And the social justice news: to mark Black History Month, Retro Snacking is tweeting some newspaper articles from the past regarding Texas lynchings.


Last, the calm-me-downs.

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Sunday, February 06, 2022

Sunday "Legitimate Political Discourse" Funnies


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Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Groundhog Day Wrangle


The next few days will reveal whether Abbott and company will coast to re-election in March -- and November -- or whether the weather can turn the tide from red to blue.  If the Lone Star version of Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, it's four more years of winter in Deep In The Hearta.


Hope is not a strategy, but when you're as far behind in the polling and the fundraising as Beto is today ... what else is there?

We'll come back to Texas Democrats' failing downpost; let's catch up with the TXGOP, still doing what they do.


With the price of oil soaring, these guys will have millions more to throw away on hyper-extremist conservative politics this year.


Ted's presidential ambitions are going to be thwarted again by Trump.  What a tragedy.


Moving on to more of the foibles of Governor Fish Lips that don't include the grid.


And wrapping this segment with the egregious laws passed in the 87th Texas Lege that are coming home to roost.


The damage wasn't limited to Republicans, however.  Some of your favorites on Team Blue really disgraced themselves, and it's only Wednesday.


ICYMI.  Truly smells like desperation from Rodriguez.  It was revealed by Tribune of the People that his primary opponent Greg Casar made his own lurch to the right, and reported at nearly the same time that Amnesty International called out the government of Israel.  Lining up with an apartheid state is a bad move no matter when it occurs, but right before voting is to begin for a brand new, solid D seat just reeks of pandering for the Jewish vote.  This move also came in the wake of the federal court ruling that Texas' anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment (injunction .pdf).

A very coincidental series of events.


Not as difficult to understand given Garcia's other progressive failings, but another echo -- on the heels of the no-vote taken in the California Assembly yesterday -- of Democrats' inability to choose the will of the people over the will of their donors.  It's an extension of Gene Green's legacy she's settling into.


I suppose that will be my segue to the legal, criminal, and social justice updates.


A couple of labor updates, segue-ing into the soothers to end today.

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