It seemed that various missives from the TX bureaucracy couldn’t even agree on what parents’ rights were on Gardasil until Austin shot it down.
Washington needs better coordination than that. Imagine this happening at a Federal level. Imagine the confusion.
Red, Red, Red, the Idolatry crowd only cares that there gang leader gets elected. They’ll happily shoot up their kids to show their devotion. Legislation shmasion. We live under an authoritarian rule where government cronies are the source from which all blessings flow, don’tcha know.
You don’t have to imagine, it happens all the time. The federal government thinks we have no right to choose our own toilets, light bulbs, health insurance, cars, fuel, etc. The difference is that Perry relented when voters made it known they felt that he overstepped his powers, the federal government does not ever relent. Perry may have done stuff people do not like but he has shown that if voters get upset about one of his decisions he will bend to their will, I think that is a good thing. I don’t see this election as a choice between Perry and the mythical perfect conservative. I see it as a choice between Perry and the very imperfect people he is running against. I personally fail to see how electing the architect of Romney care or the Pelosi couch sharing global warming guy would be better for the country than electing Perry. I think Perry would do a much better job of promoting conservative values like smaller government than either Newt or Mitt who seem to like “smart” big government and who both have changed their core positions fairly regularly thse past few years.