Posted on 04/15/2011 5:29:10 PM PDT by SmithL
AUSTIN, Texas -- Molly Ivins once described the Texas Legislature as the best form of free entertainment in a city that bills itself as the live music capital of the world.
From quips about shrinking government to the point where you can fit it in a uterus, to an amendment to a budget bill that would have require 10 percent courses offered by universities to focus on Western Civilization, the Texas Legislature has managed to live up to that billing once again this session.
Adding to the theater over the past couple of days: A visit from a delegation of conservative California Republican Assemblymen, conservative business groups... and Democratic Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, the liberal former mayor of San Francisco.
Yesterday, the California delegation met with Texas Republican (and Tea Party backed) Governor Rick Perry and some of his top advisors to talk business climate. Today, the group used a committee room in the basement extension of the Capitol to hear testimony from Texas and California businessmen about how they would go about jumpstarting the California economy.
The message today -- mainly from groups lobbying for additional tort reform in California -- was the same as Thursday: Lowering taxes, handcuffing trial lawyers and a "business friendly" (or lax) regulatory climate were the keys to Texas success and could be the keys to boosting the California economy.
As far as news value, there wasn't a whole lot there. Everyone said what people pretty much expected them to say. What made the event notable (if not hysterical) was the context surrounding the rather rote verbiage.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Cornyn is probably to the left of Newsom.
...........the so called “basement” this idiot refers to in referencing the Texas State Capitol Building was a 75 million dollar “basement” created by digging a huge hole many stories deep on the north side of the building.......I have not been in the expansion yet due to not having time to be a tourist but it is supposedly a site to behold...............and was put underground so as to not take away one iota of this majestic building which in certain dimensions is larger than the national capitol.....
why liberals have to denigrate public icons to make their silly points and advance their sodomist agenda I will never understand.............
http://www.tspb.state.tx.us/spb/capitol/texcap.htm
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