Burnt Orange Report - Bleeding Their Endorsed Candidates Dry
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in OGR On Other Blogs | 1 Comment »Always the innovative thinking capitalists, the bloggers on the brink of puberty have moved out of the small time business of hustling their readers, and are now taking in money from certain candidates they endorse. TexBlog PAC, yet another PAC that ...
Mis-Information…Meet The Right Information
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in Getting After The Left, OGR On Other Blogs | No Comments »Well, it's no wonder that there are those out there in the world that place little confidence in the news they get from the blogisphere. After reading posts crucifying Nathan Macias and his committee clerk moonlighting as his lawyer in ...
The Departed
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in The House Gone Mad | 1 Comment »Much has been said around the blogs (including this one) about who is coming to the capitol for the 81st session, but little to nothing has been said regarding who will be quietly receding into the night. So allow me ...
Governor Perry To Run For Re-Elect
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Election Commentary | 2 Comments »Per the Dallas Morning News, Governor Perry has made it as official as you can with almost two years still to go before filing deadline…he will run for re-election in 2010. Originally intending to make that decision after the 2009 ...
Fingerprint Voting…Be Careful For What You Wish For
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Talking Policy, The House Gone Mad | 3 Comments »If House Administration Chairman Tony Goolsby gets his way, then next session our state house members will have the option of voting while away from their desks but still on the House floor by using voting machines stationed around the ...
Craddick On Fire
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Election Commentary | No Comments »So you're Speaker Tom Craddick, a bunch of your old friends and a separate bunch of new friends all won their primary elections, your son and his wife just gave birth to your second grandchild, how could things possibly get ...
Border Fence Much Like Your Neighbor’s Fence, Full of Holes And Doing Little to Keep Out the Strays
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Talking Policy | No Comments »For those of us patient enough to make it all the way to the back of Sunday's Austin American Statesmen edition, we were treated to an interesting article measuring the effectiveness of border security fences. For those of you that ...
Craddick to Keffer per the Speaker’s Gavel - “From My Cold, Dead, Hand”
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in The House Gone Mad | No Comments »Now that the dust has settled from the individual party primary elections, all are in agreement, Speaker Tom Craddick's grip on that gavel is much tighter than it was on March 3rd. Somewhere, right now, there is a 3rd term ...
The Thug Life
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Getting After The Left, The House Gone Mad | 1 Comment »Well, in case you loyal reader (no, that singular reference was not a mistake) has not noticed, good ole' Sam is out on vacation, so you're stuck with the worse half for a little while longer. Now, let's get this ...
Alan Sager’s Tenure Officially Over
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Keeping The Right In Line | No Comments »Per BOR, the sun has now set on Alan Sager's days as the Chairman of the Travis County Republican Party. Chairman since 2000, Sager's legacy will be marked with the highs of 2002, and the county wide fallout ever since. The ...