Posted on 09/04/2011 3:46:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
My guess is that with the exception of the recently elected congresspersons practically all the old establishment have dirty political laundry which they don’t want exposed insofar as any funny funds from organizations such as the multitude of those funded by people like Soros. It is no secret that all powered politicians are such because of being bought.
Believe it or not I actually found something that Open Society Institute gives money to that isn’t radical left.
It’s a magazine that brings news out of North Korea, I guess Soros will fund anything meant to undermine a country, lol. Maybe funding this is an accident, wouldn’t doubt it.
http://www.asiapress.org/rimjingang/english/
They can’t hope to deport them? They can sure as hell try.
What-you-said bump. These guys are probably in the back of a truck on their way to reeducation camp as we speak.
No, Perry deliberately fumbled it just short of the goal line.
The bill died in the regular session, as Perry and co-conspirator Lt. Gov. Dewhurst had planned, but an arcane rule of the Texas Lege and a parliamentary screwup by a half-bright Dim who was trying to run out the clock for her own reasons by filibustering past the witching hour, brought the bill back automatically, against Perry's intentions, for the special session.
Perry and Dewhurst had to arrange one of those broad-daylight, middle-of-the-marketplace, nine-guys-walking-away-fast-while-mark-keels-over Mafia hit jobs. They did succeed in killing the bill, which Perry only pretended he favored, for his political meeds at the beginning of the regular session.
It was a big pile of political fakery, is what it was. Same thing with the TSA anti-groping bill.
Second point: There is no "Republican supermajority" in the Texas Lege.
There are effectively three parties in Texas now: Conservative, Main Street Republicans, who are getting screwed, suburban "economic conservative"/"good government Republican" RiNO's who vote with the Dims on social and moral issues like gambling and taxing gambling, and otherwise represent exclusively the business and fiscal interests of rich, access-capitalist Republican businessmen and the insurance and banking industries (but I repeat myself); and left-wing Democrats (the only kind left anywhere, just about).
At the moment, the legislature and its calendar are being driven and controlled by an unholy alliance, McCain-style (remember the "Gang of 14"?), of social-liberal/"Me-Too" RiNO types (of whom the Lt. Gov. and speaker of the lower house are both members in good standing) with the Democrats.
The house speaker was elected on a party-line Democratic vote plus a minority of Republicans who adhere to RiNO-ism and spite the conservatives every chance they get -- including, just a few weeks ago, on redistricting, in which the speaker and the 'Rats colluded to screw conservatives out of four seats, and increased 'Rat representation in the next Lege.
“Second point: There is no “Republican supermajority” in the Texas Lege”
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Whether it is or is not a “supermajority” is semantics. Many consider it so.
The fact is Perry has no political will to stop illegal immigration into Texas. That much is clear.
Texas Republicans like to boast about the voter ID law that they passed. BFD...... I’m not worried about illegals
voting. They come here to work and steal, and have babies for free at the county hospitals and suck up all the
social services that you and HAVE to pay for. They don’t come here with the sole intention to vote.
We are subsidizing the employee health care costs for all these cheap labor loving friends of Rick Perry.
Arizona and Alabama decided no more. Perry needs ask Jan Brewer to return his nuts.
FReeper Cincinatus' Wife has been posting up repeatedly, and in the face of correction, that Rick Perry should get credit for leading Texas to a legislative supermajority, as a way of praising his leadership and suggesting, ever so gently, that his leadership mano is so great, and his mojo, his political vig, so totally awesome that it extends to the voting booth in legislative races, permeating the People's legislature with his influence, character, and mighty example.
I was just pointing out, horse apples! The situation is nothing of the sort, and if anything, the voters should be getting all the credit for sending those people to sit in the Lege; but Rick Perry and Joe Straus (the speaker) and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst have been working together day and night to sandbag the will of the People, in favor of that of the Plutocracy that Rick and David work for.
There is no hesitation, second thought, or vacillation on the part of the People about what they want done with respect to the Border and immigration. But Perry and his employers (as opposed to mere constituents, who provide the minor consideration called paychecks and votes) are absolutely determined to keep the Border jammed wide open, with all the attendant ills you describe, together with the ultimate loss of sovereignty over the State, and possibly the United States as well, as the wager.
Well said my friend
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