Burnt Orange Report

Well that's certainly an insight into what Texas Republicans (is that redundant?) think. But it's the parents who usually pay for college, and it's the parents who instill political leanings, so it seems that Texas is getting the government it deserves. I suspect most Texas college students bear their conservative outlook with grim but proud determination.

Anyway, the rest of their platform is even scarier, so aside for the brave writer of this blog, I expect the rest of the more liberal-minded have moved elsewhere, now wallowing in open minds, sandals and facial hardware. After all, isn't that why the states are now painted red or blue, so we know which ones we belong in?

Why ARE you in Texas anyway?

I don't think putting a student on the board of regents is a good idea. THat means they can shove anything down our throats without us protesting because we are represented on the board. One student on the board is not going to change anything, it just provides a facade of representation. Leading up to the revolutionary war the colonies said they wanted representation, but that would have been a disaster. So we have one guy in Parliament who votes against all the colonial legislation and everyone else votes for it. We have nothing to bitch about because we are represented.

I don't know what the better solution is, but one student on the board would do no good.

Kamajii,

You ask why do we stay in TExas? We are in Texas because THIS IS OUR HOME and I am not going to let the ratbag mofo's take my home away from me!!!! It is all to easy to "give up" and "move away," which is nothing but surrendering. As a 4th generation Texan, I will not stand to see these right wing facists completely take over my State. We Democrats in Texas need to make Texas once again the State of Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Barbara Jordan, Henry Cisneros, Ann Richards, et. al.

Hey WhoMe,

Now a liberal in Texas has to be one tough SOB, so maybe you can beat them cowcronies, but it sounds like they already took your home, and they're working on getting mine.

Today's Salon.com profiles two new books about the problem; 'Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, Americas's Superstate', by Robert Bryce, and 'The Politics of Oil and Money', by Dan Briody, (I didn't arrange it). The prognosis for Texas seems pretty grim, but convicting DeLay would be a step in the right direction.

Best of luck tho, I too hate those mofo's. Job 1 is untangling their tentacles from our national government, then maybe we can send freedom riders down to help out in Texas.

Kamaji,

Have confidence in WhoMe. Have confidence in me. And most especially have confidence in Byron. We're on your side. We love a good fight. Texas is our home. And we're doing a job you need done... transforming Texas into a civilized place for ordinary moderates and liberals to live. It's working... maybe not fast enough to suit you, or, for that matter, to suit us, but the change is happening.

Texas, as large as it is, will inevitably be a source of politicians on the national scene. We can be a source of Democratic sanity... or we can be a source of Bush work-alikes. You can help us by fostering a liberal climate nationwide that permits hesitant Texas liberals to come out. Yeah, most of us are tough SOB's; outspoken liberals down here have to be tough. But Texas is almost evenly divided politically, whatever you may have heard. We're here to push Texas to the tipping point. It can happen; if I didn't know that... know that, not merely believe that... I wouldn't be here. Texas is a purple state, not a red state. Help us turn it blue!

Steve
"The Yellow Doggerel Democrat"