Even though he acquiesced to raising the debt ceiling and Obama’s version of the USA PATRIOT Act (although he did try to walk some of the latter back)?
Then there’s stuff like continuing to fund the FAA, Head Start program, SNAP/WIC, growing the DOJ (the Violence against Women Act created a separate office within that department as well as authorized special funding for investigating/targeting such crimes), FDA appropriations, a number of others.
He leaned conservative a lot but did have some RINO tendencies.
“Then there’s stuff like continuing to fund the FAA, Head Start program, SNAP/WIC, growing the DOJ (the Violence against Women Act created a separate office within that department as well as authorized special funding for investigating/targeting such crimes), FDA appropriations, a number of other” Are you kidding me? This stuff sucks!! Get the hell out of here!!
I am a little sad reading these posts.
Maybe I am wrong but I think a lot of folks commenting are not from Texas.
Ralph Hall was an excellent, patriotic, conservative, who represented this area of Texas well.
I do think his replacement is fine and MIGHT do a better job than Hall. I would say Hall is much more conservative than Cornyn and probably most reps from Texas.
Texas is an extraordinarily conservative state. The term RINO in Texas is being misapplied in this case.
I was glad to see Dewhurst get beat tonight and I do think that makes an important statement.
I think Hall did not run a strong campaign but I don’t think he deserves to be run down on this thread.