This Old House

It's sad that Sen. Mario Gallegos is having to bascially say on the floor of the Texas Senate that prior to today, at least the Senate could say, "well at least we aren't the Texas House" with their chaos and in-fighting last session. Sort of a "thank God we aren't Mississippi" moment. Except for that now, the Texas Senate is Mississippi. The worst legislative body in Texas. Zaffirini is now saying the same thing. She is wondering what the media will say about the Texas Senate tomorrow. I can tell you what the new media is saying in real time (along with the twittering "old" media): chaos, tumoil, partisanship. Watson and many other Democrats have clearly said over and over again today: the real issues that are important to Texas families are public educaiton, college tuition, health care, electricty rates, insurance rates and the economy. Instead the Republican Party can just go ahead and live (for a day) then die on this silly voter ID non-issue. The math is the math: 19-12, the Republicans can do whatever they want to do to trick Texans. But, can they be so stupid to not understand that what goes around comes around? The voters get to vote for these characters again, and my guess is that their tolerance is going to (eventually) be low for folks who are so politically selfish as to not put Texas families first. UPDATE: Oh, my goodness, Ellis is reviewing what's so idiotic about voter ID - and that the motivation is to discriminate against minorities , and reminding everyone that tomorrow would be Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday. UPDATE: The Dallas Morning News has already expressed how unimpressed they are with Dewhurst's lack of leadership over the 2/3 rule change.