“If that is the only thing you heard today, you would believe that Paxton was convicted. Lt Gov Dan Patrick appropriately scolded the TX House and he is so correct.”
ABSOLUTELY. There’s a reason that Texas is always FOLLOWING other red states, rather than leading them when it comes to conservative priorities (like protecting little girls from mutilation by ‘doctors’), and that is due to the deep corruption of the Texas GOP.
In this case, it just BLOWS MY MIND that the Texas House GOP would Impeach a high-level Republican without having their ducks lined up in the State Senate, but that is what they did, and now they will pay, BIG TIME, for that stunt.
Well when the godfather of your party is Bush ..., but it isn't just the Texas GOP. It's the GOP, the soft, weak, corrupt, do nothing, lazy, spineless, traitorous, self-serving sell-outs.
it just BLOWS MY MIND that the Texas House GOP would Impeach a high-level Republican without having their ducks lined up in the State Senate,
Why? The common characteristic of these RINOs is their laziness. The literally got liquored up and had a grand 'ol party and gave it to the Senate to have their own piss-up. Rules- we don't need to stinkin' rules. Somehow sanity prevailed. I suspect that the Senate got more than an earful from the same constituents who voted for Paxton and thought that suing Biden and the feds over and over again, and having the damned audacity to win a lot of the time was just dandy and nothing to be embarassed about. But GOPeers are a handwringing lot and wringing their hands has been what they have been doing a lot of.
Course, everyone thought business as usual would prevail, add another $6T to the debt, wash it through Ukraine, get some for hardworking Hunter, let the big guy get his cut, all the wheels were greased, and everything should have gone smooth as silk except for the POd voters who were astonished that their gas meters and grocery bills kept lying to them when Biden promised them that that wouldn't happen.