It's funny that the Republicans with a super majority in the House (101-49 members) accomplished so little. They could have passsed every bill they wanted without a single Democratic vote with the 2/3 majority.
Sure, they're going to require every woman to have a sonogram before having an abortion, they passed Voter ID to grandstand about a problem that doesn't exist (voter fraud isn't at the polling location, it's in mail-in ballots and voter rolls), they passed "loser pays" tort reform to prevent the little guy from having a voice in the courtroom and ensure only those with deep pockets can win "justice," and they passed more of Gov. Perry's "emergency" legislation regarding eminent domain but Democrats aren't actually opposed to that.
I suppose they'll pass some of this stuff in the couple of special sessions we may have and then claim Victory.
They couldn't pass any of their illegal immigration bills, most notably the sanctuary cities bill (Arizona-light), they couldn't even muster a Congressional redistricting bill, and couldn't pass any of their public school finance proposals to lay off 10's of 1,000's of teachers. That's always good for the economy to lay a bunch of people off when we have billions of dollars in our savings account, the Rainy Day Fund (or more precisely the Economic Stabilization Fund created to address budgetary needs during economic difficulties).
So, we'll have more unemployed people applying for benefits. More people not being able to pay their bills. More house foreclosures. More people with no cash income to buy things in a state that is primarily funded by consumer purchases since Texas relies almost exclusively on the sales tax for revenue. More costs and unfunded mandates passed down to local governments to attempt to recoup the revenue to maintain services through higher property taxes. That's just absolute Genius. I wonder who thought of that?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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