“Second point: There is no “Republican supermajority” in the Texas Lege”
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Whether it is or is not a “supermajority” is semantics. Many consider it so.
The fact is Perry has no political will to stop illegal immigration into Texas. That much is clear.
Texas Republicans like to boast about the voter ID law that they passed. BFD...... I’m not worried about illegals
voting. They come here to work and steal, and have babies for free at the county hospitals and suck up all the
social services that you and HAVE to pay for. They don’t come here with the sole intention to vote.
We are subsidizing the employee health care costs for all these cheap labor loving friends of Rick Perry.
Arizona and Alabama decided no more. Perry needs ask Jan Brewer to return his nuts.
FReeper Cincinatus' Wife has been posting up repeatedly, and in the face of correction, that Rick Perry should get credit for leading Texas to a legislative supermajority, as a way of praising his leadership and suggesting, ever so gently, that his leadership mano is so great, and his mojo, his political vig, so totally awesome that it extends to the voting booth in legislative races, permeating the People's legislature with his influence, character, and mighty example.
I was just pointing out, horse apples! The situation is nothing of the sort, and if anything, the voters should be getting all the credit for sending those people to sit in the Lege; but Rick Perry and Joe Straus (the speaker) and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst have been working together day and night to sandbag the will of the People, in favor of that of the Plutocracy that Rick and David work for.
There is no hesitation, second thought, or vacillation on the part of the People about what they want done with respect to the Border and immigration. But Perry and his employers (as opposed to mere constituents, who provide the minor consideration called paychecks and votes) are absolutely determined to keep the Border jammed wide open, with all the attendant ills you describe, together with the ultimate loss of sovereignty over the State, and possibly the United States as well, as the wager.