Archive for April 25th, 2006

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Dubya’s advance team is said to have hoped to put the President up in the Royal Suite at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna when he attends a summit of European leaders in June. But Jagger already has booked the $6,400-a-night pad and isn’t budging.
Prez, try the Motel 6. I hear they’ll leave a light [...]

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Can’t Get There From Here or How Dewhurst Decides To Grow a Pair

I always have such high hopes for Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, and I’m always let down in the end. But, true to form, here I’ll go again. Dewhurst doesn’t show the robotic support for the crap the House passed out last night and gives great talking points on passing ‘meaningful reform’ and how the Senate will [...]

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What I need

Is someone that works in the House to shoot me an email. I need to verify something. Totally anonymous, as usual. But want to check it out. Thanks!

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Watch This

One of the Westboro Baptist nutjobs made it on Fox and how sad that Fox News had to show what the rest of the world sees Christian Terrorists are really like. A-mazing.

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Spending the surplus? Texas Legislature Drunk with Ideas of New Riches!

I’m just a simple man, from humble beginnings and with not a whole lot of book-learnin’. But, I’m not sure I get this “spend the surplus” fever the Lege seems to have. Especially the brilliant idea to use the surplus to reduce property taxes. That one is a doozy in my mind. I [...]

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SCHOOL Finance

Let me pound this into the head of every elected official:
Not One Dime For Education
Get it? Do you? Did you see the primaries? For the most part, education was the message that won. EDUCATION. You just voted for the largest tax increase in history. Not one dime for education. [...]

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