Speaking the truth
Molly Ivins calls a spade a spade.
…The way things got to such a sorry pass is that the R's have been running on rote, lock-step voting.
No Democratic amendment gets considered on its merits, no matter how sensible it is. Shell bills get introduced, and then whole sections are amended on the floor, in a parody of legislative process.
The creepy thing about the far-right Republicans, who are definitely in the majority in the House, is not that they are dismantling government because they won't raise taxes -- they're dismantling government because they think it shouldn't help people. They really think that health and human services should not be provided.
Texas isn't unique. It's simply the most brutal, thanks to Tom DeLay.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/8/2003 03:48:53 PM |
Posted by P6 at July 8, 2003 03:48 PM
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