I'm still waiting for that accused felon to go to court. If he was black and had snatched some white woman's purse his ass would already be in jail after 5 years. He shouldn't even be allowed to run, and certainly not allowed to keep his position. His ass should have been yanked from office until his trial.
Paxton vs Bush will be an interesting runoff. Bush has that family name, but as recognizable as it makes him, it carries a taint for both democrats and Trumpers. And whichever one wins is probably still the weakest statewide Republican candidate in the general election. Maybe, maybe a Democrat could win AG. Naw, not really, but hope springs eternal. What I actually expect to happen is that Bush goes extra-Trumpy for the runoff, beats Paxton (that indictment is baggage people would rather do without), and goes on to win the general. Of all my votes in the Republican primary yesterday, I only voted for one incumbent -- comptroller Glen Hegar. That was my only vote that won out. Oh well. Btw, I discovered in the booth that Republicans had 10 party propositions on the ballot. I could only support two of them. They were: 1.) In light of the federal government’s refusal to defend the southern border, Texas should immediately deploy the National Guard, Texas Military Forces, and necessary state law enforcement to seal the border, enforce immigration laws, and deport illegal aliens. 2.) Texas should eliminate all property taxes within ten (10) years without implementing a state income tax. [How are we going to pay for government? With an effin' sales tax?] 3.) Texans should not lose their jobs, nor should students be penalized, for declining a COVID-19 vaccine. 4.) Texas schools should teach students basic knowledge and American exceptionalism and reject Critical Race Theory and other curricula that promote Marxist doctrine and encourage division based on creed, race, or economic status. [As much as Republicans seem to loathe CRT, I loathe American Exceptionalism. If there is brainwashing of children going on in schools, that's it.] 5.) Texas should enact a State Constitutional Amendment to defend the sanctity of innocent human life, created in the image of God, from fertilization until natural death. 6.) The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should end the practice of awarding committee chairmanships to Democrats. [Republican's stranglehold on power in Texas is apparently not complete enough.] 7.) Texas should protect the integrity of our elections by verifying that registered voters are American citizens, restoring felony penalties and enacting civil penalties for vote fraud, and fighting any federal takeover of state elections. [I could almost say Yes to this one, but for the inclusion of 'restoring felony penalties'] 8.) Texas should ban chemical castration, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgery on all minor children for sex transition purposes. 9.) Texas parents and guardians should have the right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student. [Voted Yes on this one. Not that I trust Republicans to build it right, but I think it's possible to make a better public education system by getting rid of government-run schools.] 10.) Texans affirm that our freedoms come from God and that the government should have no control over the conscience of individuals. [Voted Yes on this one as well. Technically, I don't believe in God and therefore don't believe our freedoms come from God. But government having no control over "the conscience of individuals" is so abstract as to be nearly meaningless and completely insipid. So I threw a dog a bone.
The party is getting trashier by the day. How do they call themselves Conservatives? LOL Then again, it does look like something our last First Lady used to do.
I knew one day that Al Bundy would be a great man of the people. Proud grassfield veteran who scored 4 touchdowns in a single battle. President and founder of a cultured organization against militant feminazis. Avid devotee and patron to female employment empowerment at Hooters and nudie bars. All hail the Rat King!
thought this was interesting: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-...t-beto-11646257477?mod=hp_opin_pos_5#cxrecs_s excerpt: Second, Republican enthusiasm was on display Tuesday in Texas, in the country’s first 2022 primary. Four years ago, 1,068,463 Democrats voted in the Texas primary while 1,549,573 Republicans did. This week, with a few scattered ballots still to be counted, 1,057,664 Democrats have voted while 1,935,321 Republicans turned out, an increase of more than 23% for the GOP over 2018. Turnout for Republicans seems to have exploded in largely Hispanic South Texas. With almost every ballot counted, the GOP turnout was up 162% in Cameron County over 2018 and 113% in Hidalgo, both of which lie in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Republican turnout was also up 50% in Nueces County, dominated by Corpus Christi, and up 51% in El Paso. Hispanics joining the GOP will hurt the Democrats badly in Texas and outside it. For all its pageantry and drama, Mr. Biden’s somewhat mediocre State of the Union will likely be all but forgotten a week from now. But the Democrats’ midterm election problems aren’t going anywhere. They may even get worse. more at the link
This is a headline you don't see everyday... https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/03/02/van-taylor-affair-with-isis-widow-runoff Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ex-ISIS widow, drops out of runoff
This is part of why Beto started his campaign in South Texas. The Trump GOP made huge gains down there in 2020 compared to where they were in 2016 against Clinton.
Clicked the link. She's pretty cute. Anyhow, Taylor quits while Paxton has an affair, then hires the woman to work for him using Texan taxpayer dollars, and is still the state's top cop.
Rep. Ilhan Omar Challenger Royce White: We've Been Lied To By The "Uniparty," Sold Out To Global Corporate Community Former NBA player Royce White said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and other members of the "uniparty" have sold Americans out in an interview with Tucker Carlson. White will be challenging the incumbent Congresswoman as a Republican. "We've been misrepresented, we've been misled by the Democrats, by the liberal establishment, by the uniparty that sold us on this fantasy of globalism, which is just another way to attack the American working class," White said on Wednesday.
What I found interesting was how dishonest Rove was in the first paragraph of his opinion piece. After reading it, I took a couple of minutes to find ample evidence of Rove's dishonesty. It didn't encourage me to take the rest of his column seriously. What I find bizarre is that Rove found it necessary to open his column that way. He didn't have to. From Karl Rove: "The State of the Union address is what historian Daniel Boorstin called a pseudo-event, a speech endowed with special meaning because of its pageantry and pervasive news coverage. Such addresses rarely have a big impact on public opinion. Gallup has found that since 1978, the State of the Union has led to just an average 0.4-point improvement in a president’s approval rating. President Biden’s speech Tuesday was typical of the genre." The poll numbers after President Biden's State of the Union speech didn't fit Rove's opening narrative at all. From Politico: President Joe Biden’s approval rating is on the rise — for now — in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Biden’s State of the Union address last week. Multiple surveys over the past week, including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll out Tuesday, show a modest-to-moderate uptick in voters’ views of Biden’s job performance, up from his low-water mark earlier this year. Forty-five percent of registered voters surveyed in the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll approve of the job Biden is doing, up 4 points over the past week. But a narrow majority, 51 percent, still disapproves of Biden’s job performance. That result follows two other post-State of the Union polls also showing a Biden bounce. An NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll released late last week showed a 7-point rise in Biden’s approval rating among registered voters, from 40 percent in February to 47 percent in the new survey. Biden’s bump was smaller in a Quinnipiac University poll out Monday: from 38 percent last week to 40 percent in the new poll. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/biden-approval-rating-ukraine-00015065
