Oh, no! Don't do that to us! He's from Oklahoma, actually......
Seriously, we've got RiNO and lobbyist and closeted-gay-cabal problems of our own in Texas, a bunch of Linc Chafee lookalikes, smalltime Abramoffs, and countryman Foleys and Mehlmans running around that we need to excuse from the Party apparatus and get the whole thing back on track.
And we have a "pigs-at-the-trough" syndrome going, too, with the deeply-backgrounded (until last year or so) NASCO project ("NAFTA Highway"), which Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas wouldn't even admit he knew about to one of his constituents in a town-hall meeting last summer (he called it an "Internet rumor"!)* and Gov. Rick Perry's toll-road taxation project. (We don't have a state income tax, so this is his bid to grub up vast new state revenues.) He wants to take thousands of miles of long-established, fully-amortized commuter routes and turn them into toll roads, in association with shadowy, politically-connected, heavy political donor "investor groups". Toll Road Rick's main man at the state DoT has a motto for our future:
"Toll roads or slow roads or no roads!"
We also have a bunch called the "Promise Keepers" high in the Texas Republican structure who go around "reconciling" with black AME ministers (who are cynically fleecing them) and "apologizing" for antebellum slavery. Their praying over "slave kettles" in African-style prayer rings (bet they don't know this stuff is all voudoun/palo mayombe-related paganism) is one thing, but they're awfully close, it sounds like to me, to endorsing reparations. So we have those folks to deal with as well, and they include a recent past chairwoman of the state party and some of her associates.
And Karl Rove helped create all this, when he was here in Texas working for Governor Bush.
* BTW.....It's hard to resist the inference that Senator Roberts said this as an outright, witting, political lie. As he spoke, planning and construction was already going forward for a vast "inland port" operation in the Kansas City, Kansas, area, which is going to cost billions. (I've seen another one a-building north of Fort Worth; it's enormous.) It may even have a Mexican diplomatic and revenue facility attached, which may involve alienating some U.S. soil to the Mexican government. Two or three standing committees of the Congress are overseeing this NASCO project, and Senator Roberts called it a "rumor," which is an outright lie. And to top it all off.....this is all genetically and structurally tied to the vast offshoring of millions of white-collar jobs which we are just now finding out about in the business press, which will take place in the next 10 years or so.
Yeah, we have to get our priorities straight. That won't happen, I think, with Karl Rove down here helping the Bush machine run Texas like an Arlington ballpark.
Let's send Rove to Russia to help someone. Or France.
I thought Rove was from Colorado?