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  • I think that it’s now safe to say that we Texans now live in a failed state.  30 years of GOP rule, setting our own standard, living the “Texas Dream,” which they’ve bragged about relentlessly…and let’s see where we are:

    A majority of the state in complete failure, unable to deliver the most BASIC of services (things that are called “utilities,” not “luxuries,” for a reason).  No power.  No water.  No means of clearing roads (that one, I can’t fault the state so much….but it wouldn’t be as big a crisis if people weren’t stuck in their homes with no power and water).  So citizens are stuck in their homes, some of them dying there. 

    Water resource planning?  After pretending for decades that a drought would never happen again, and not doing ANYTHING to develop resources in the state water plan (a document actually developed using science and mathematical projections), we had several locations, including actual cities, down to a few days of water supply.  We’ve finally gotten on our horse a bit, but it may be too late if the next drought comes anytime soon.  

    State rank in key categories:

    Education – 34

    Health Care - 37

    Infrastructure - 33

    Opportunity - 39

    Environment - 44

    Infrastructure - 33 

    In overall quality of life ranking by US News, we are now #38, down from #36 just two years ago.  At that rate, we’ll be in the bottom 3 within ten years.

    We are SUPER independent, and FUCK the feds….but we have requested federal disaster assistance more than any other state in the past decade or so.

    But hey, our economy is ranked #15!

    That’s right, we have a “roaring economy” and the “Texas Miracle!”  But we can’t deliver the basics for our citizens.  The economy is VERY efficient at funneling bazillions to the very few…..with little of it “trickling down” to most Texans.  Yeah, the people on this board generally do fine, but face the facts – we’re the top 10% or so.  We are educated, older, and fortunate.

    Our federal system allows for state-by-state experiments.  Texas is the poster child for near anarcho-capitalism and zero regulation or oversight.  We have tested that approach, for over a generation now (30 years of Republican rule).  That approach is a failure.  The evidence is undeniable, and overwhelming.  It doesn’t matter how many River Oaks millionaires you produce if the rest of your people are dying in their homes.  Shit, some of those River Oaks millionaires might be freezing to death today, too.

    The kids of a middle class family can hardly afford to go to a good state school.  Their prospects for employment are mediocre.  Their prospects of suffering crippling medical debt at some point are significant.  Their chances of not having basic utilities needed for life safety at some point – all but certain.  Their chances of becoming ill or dying from a pollution-caused illness are material.

    What’s the result?  Our leaders have sold Texas as a paradise – move here!  Bring your business here!  And some businesses have done so, adding opportunity…..but providing little to no tax support for the infrastructure we all depend on.  To the contrary, over the past few years, I know more and more people – educated people, people who can do their jobs elsewhere, who are looking to bail on this state.  It’s people with young kids, who want them to grow up in a better place.  It’s people in their working years, who simply want a better path.  It’s retirees, who want a safe and secure place to live.

    We have consumed our seed stock.  We have burned through our reserves.  We are now consuming ourselves.  The ability to pitch Texas as the land of opportunity is done.  Seeing what we have become, the tentative thought/plan my wife and I had of wrapping up our careers here and then getting the hell out of Dodge is becoming much more concrete.  My children are already unlikely to make their future in this state.  Now we are, too.

    But the response from the Republican leadership and their sycophants – “how are you gonna pay for it?  Taxes?  That’s socialism!  You want that stuff, you have to pay for it!”

    Fuck yes I do, and I’m okay with that.  I want groceries…so I have to pay HEB.  I want a car…so I have to pay Ford.  I want clothes…..so I have to pay Dillards.  I want my population educated….so I have to pay the school district.  I want electricity, with enough capacity to keep us running when we need it…..so I have to pay my bill, maybe with a capacity surcharge.  I want water to come out of the taps….so I have to pay for development of resources and maintenance of infrastructure.  I want roads….so I pay taxes to build and maintain them.  YES, I have to pay for all of those things, and “nothing is free” – no fucking shit.  So, let’s pay for it.  We have the #15 economy….we HAVE the funds in this state.  An economy with the flow of funds that ours has can produce and maintain all of those results.  But we have chosen a different path; funnel all the dollars to the top, and spend next to nothing for the public good.  We have privatized profit….we have socialized the costs.  And we are dying because of it.

    My fellow Texans are dying in their homes….and there’s nothing I can do about it today.  And I am enraged.

    I love Texas.  I am 6th generation here.  My ancestors have Texas historical markers on their graves.  We helped make this state, and this state helped make us.  It educated us (back when college was affordable).  But it’s time to face the fact – this state is a failure, and on its current path, with its current leadership and philosophy, it will only get worse.  This state has a terrible future, unless we dramatically change our path.   Chances of that happening?  0.0% -- because we’ll continue to vote for the guys who make our leadership priorities bathroom bills, and transgender sports, and requiring the national anthem be played at certain events.  Any bill that has been proposed to improve emergency preparedness of gov’t entities has been crushed by the Republicans controlling the lege….but we will definitely stick with those guys.  No taxes.  No government functionality.

    What we are seeing happening right now is our system working EXACTLY AS IT WAS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO WORK.  And we will, I guarantee it, collectively decide to stick with that.  This state is in free-fall, and anyone with eyes can see it.  And anyone with a brain is starting to think of ways to make their life elsewhere.  It breaks my goddamned heart to see us commit collective suicide, but here we are.

     

     


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    BrazilHorn

    Posted

     COVID denial killed a bunch of Texas GOP

    If now folks want to drink raw milk and some of them expire then game on. 

    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Dallas decided we didn't want to use plastic bags because they fill up White Rock Lake, etc.  But Abbott told us we couldn't decide for ourselves.  That broke dick fucker.  

     

    fuck that puto

    as i walk into heb with all my totes at home 

     

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    That's the freedom to die by ignorance, son.

    You take that away, well, then you just don't really have America anymore, do you?

     

    in his statement, miller brags about filtering out the shit from his raw milk, before drinking it 

     

    lol i’m sure there’s no after taste there 

     

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    Evil Bill Obrien

    Posted

    So more "small government" things...

     

    Guessing the takeover of HISD was the first test, if they can get this to pass will be the next test, guessing final outcome is try and do a full takeover of Harris County and any other county/city governments the ruling party declares "unfit"

     

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    Brisketexan

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    So more "small government" things...

     

    Guessing the takeover of HISD was the first test, if they can get this to pass will be the next test, guessing final outcome is try and do a full takeover of Harris County and any other county/city governments the ruling party declares "unfit"

     

    Correct.

    Nice Guy Eddie

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Dallas decided we didn't want to use plastic bags because they fill up White Rock Lake, etc.  But Abbott told us we couldn't decide for ourselves.  That broke dick fucker.  

     

    17 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    fuck that puto

    as i walk into heb with all my totes at home 

     

    Mad Arthur GIF by MOODMAN

    I hate local govts adding more laws and regulations on us but people suck. If they would take the plastic bags home and dispose of them correctly, mayors wouldn't pass laws like this.

    Trash rant incoming. We can't have nice things without the govt regulating us more. I live near a park in Houston where they recently improved/expanded the size of their playground. Which is fine but the increased number of parents/kids using the park has led to a tremendous amount of trash that they fail to throw away. Why bother walking 25 feet to a trash can to dispose of a dirty diaper when the parking lot is a fine alternative. The place is a low grade landfill somedays.

    royiv

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    So more "small government" things...

     

    Guessing the takeover of HISD was the first test, if they can get this to pass will be the next test, guessing final outcome is try and do a full takeover of Harris County and any other county/city governments the ruling party declares "unfit"

     

    In a state where our legislative body meets for 140 days every two years, it’s good to see our elected representatives focus their time on the issues that will improve the lives of Texans and their children.

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, royiv said:

    In a state where our legislative body meets for 140 days every two years, it’s good to see our elected representatives focus their time on the issues that will improve the lives of Texans and their children.

     

    is this some kind of protection from austin / travis county da’s ?

    royiv

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    7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    is this some kind of protection from austin / travis county da’s ?

    I was being highly sarcastic, but I’m sure that talking point is part of Briscoe’s calculus.

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    royiv

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    15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Almost half of Texas counties have nowhere to get prenatal care, let alone deliver a baby. 

    The Rural Texas Maternal Health Rescue Plan offers legislative proposals to shore up what’s left.

     

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/03/texas-rural-maternal-health-plan/

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    As one of 10 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid, Texas has a 21.7% uninsured rate, the highest in the nation. 

    From the article, this is one of the biggest kicks to the nuts. As a state, we’re turning away Federal money that we’re already paying into the system via federal taxes. 

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    softlynow

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    17 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Almost half of Texas counties have nowhere to get prenatal care, let alone deliver a baby. 

    The Rural Texas Maternal Health Rescue Plan offers legislative proposals to shore up what’s left.

     

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/03/texas-rural-maternal-health-plan/

    Why would this concern Republican voters? Their concern isn't babies, it's fetuses. An abortion is provided by an OB-GYN. No OB-GYNs, no abotion. Fetuses saved!

    A real Christian woman would deliver that baby and survive with or without modern medical care. Post-partum deaths are God's will. Pre-partum deaths are Satan's work through the commie libs defiling this land Jesus gave us.

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    Brisketexan

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, royiv said:

    From the article, this is one of the biggest kicks to the nuts. As a state, we’re turning away Federal money that we’re already paying into the system via federal taxes. 

    Read things like this:

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    Several of the top priorities focus on Medicaid, the largest payer of maternal health services in Texas. Medicaid pays for half of births statewide, but in rural areas, covers between 60% and 90% of births. Medicaid is primarily federally funded, but states administer the program.

    Translation: in the areas that are most likely to vote lockstep GQP because "get a job, get the gubmint outta my business!"......the LARGE majority of people are on....government funded healthcare.

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    This plan also lays out ways the Legislature could shore up rural women’s health care more broadly, ensuring they are healthy before and after pregnancy. As one of 10 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid, Texas has a 21.7% uninsured rate, the highest in the nation. While lawmakers are unlikely to move on that issue anytime soon,

    Translation: Texas has an easy path to improving access to prenatal care, and insuring the people who need it.  But the people who need it most....consistently vote against it.  And then bitch about how society is leaving them to suffer in declining rural communities.

    For fuck's sake, we're filled with people who repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot and then get angry about why their feet are full of holes.

     

    And one thing is for certain: the Legislature won't do jack shit to meaningfully improve this situation.

    But....we're pRo LiFe!!!!!!!!!!

    Jesus.  The fucking stupidity and hypocrisy of this fucking state.

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    Biff Tannen

    Posted

    22 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    So more "small government" things...

     

    Guessing the takeover of HISD was the first test, if they can get this to pass will be the next test, guessing final outcome is try and do a full takeover of Harris County and any other county/city governments the ruling party declares "unfit"

     

    I think this would cause a legitimate backlash if it were to pass.  This has no chance of passing, correct?

    Captainant

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I think this would cause a legitimate backlash if it were to pass.  This has no chance of passing, correct?

    Just like how trump had no chance of winning, yeah?

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    Nice Guy Eddie

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    23 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    So more "small government" things...

     

    Guessing the takeover of HISD was the first test, if they can get this to pass will be the next test, guessing final outcome is try and do a full takeover of Harris County and any other county/city governments the ruling party declares "unfit"

     

    can we expel Cain and Baytown from Texas?

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    LCHorn

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I think this would cause a legitimate backlash if it were to pass.  This has no chance of passing, correct?

    Backlash from whom?  Have you seen the voting patterns in Austin?  My neighborhood went something like 75%-80% for Harris.  The GOP gave up on earning votes from here 20 years ago.  Even prior to that, Austin was “the people’s republic” for the majority of voters.  

    Evil Bill Obrien

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I think this would cause a legitimate backlash if it were to pass.  This has no chance of passing, correct?

    Didn't pass last time but fact that he refiled means it at least has a chance... got plenty of backlash from the state takeover of HISD but they still did that and show no sign of giving up control there.

    Longhorn_Fan68

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    1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

    Backlash from whom?  Have you seen the voting patterns in Austin?  My neighborhood went something like 75%-80% for Harris.  The GOP gave up on earning votes from here 20 years ago.  Even prior to that, Austin was “the people’s republic” for the majority of voters.  

    and what our magnanimous leaders can't seem to comprehend is that maybe so many people live and move here is because Austin is exactly not like the rest of Texas. Don't Texas my Austin.

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    royiv

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    4 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    and what our magnanimous leaders can't seem to comprehend is that maybe so people live and move here is because Austin is exactly not like the rest of Texas. Don't Texas my Austin.

    That was definitely the case in the past, but I think that Austin, and all of the large blue cities, are not going to attract new residents like they once did as Texas continues to align itself with the MAGA agenda. We’re already seeing it on this board with lots of examples of kids going out of state for school with no plan of returning. Professionally, it has become a lot more difficult for me to recruit physicians to Texas when it was super easy in the past.

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    Brisketexan

    Posted

    I think this would cause a legitimate backlash if it were to pass.  This has no chance of passing, correct?

    Dude…does it present an opportunity to “own tha libz?” That’s all that matters. It may not pass this session, but I’m resigned to them presenting it each session going forward, and once they run out of other bullshit issues to pass legislation on, they’ll pass this.

    Because “fuck you” is our only governing political philosophy now.
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    DigglerontheHoof

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    2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I think this would cause a legitimate backlash if it were to pass.  This has no chance of passing, correct?

    We just elected a traitorous, felon, rapist as POTUS.  Nothing will cause a backlash.  Not one goddamned thing. 

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    Biff Tannen

    Posted

    2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    We just elected a traitorous, felon, rapist as POTUS.  Nothing will cause a backlash.  Not one goddamned thing. 

    Austin didn't.  My statement should be it would cause a backlash in Austin.  I don't know what that would actually look like.  Maybe just a gnashing of teeth or maybe something with more substance.  I guess I just don't see the 11th largest city in the nation just sitting back and taking this like a Clayton Williams rape victim.

    Brisketexan

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    38 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Austin didn't.  My statement should be it would cause a backlash in Austin.  I don't know what that would actually look like.  Maybe just a gnashing of teeth or maybe something with more substance.  I guess I just don't see the 11th largest city in the nation just sitting back and taking this like a Clayton Williams rape victim.

    We can't stop it.  And that is a huge part of the point - the power dynamic.

    You know how psychologists explain how a significant number of rapes aren't about sex, they are about power?  That's what the GQP is about.  "We can totally assfuck you."  "Oh, is it that you want to assfuck me?"  "No, it's not so much that we want to, it's really because we know you don't want to be assfucked by us, but there's nothing you can do to stop us.  We can do whatever we want to you, with impunity.  And that gets us off."

    It's the exercise of power to cause pain as a display of dominance.  That's it.

    royiv

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Austin didn't.  My statement should be it would cause a backlash in Austin.  I don't know what that would actually look like.  Maybe just a gnashing of teeth or maybe something with more substance.  I guess I just don't see the 11th largest city in the nation just sitting back and taking this like a Clayton Williams rape victim.

    The state took over HISD and the only thing we’ve been able to do is vote down two bond propositions to express our displeasure. The state can do whatever it wants.

    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    12 hours ago, LCHorn said:

    Backlash from whom?  Have you seen the voting patterns in Austin?  My neighborhood went something like 75%-80% for Harris.  The GOP gave up on earning votes from here 20 years ago.  Even prior to that, Austin was “the people’s republic” for the majority of voters.  

     

    if austin were to become a 'district', would they no longer vote in state elections ?

    tx 3 putt

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    Frustrated Ryan Gosling GIF

     

     

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    GreenspointTexas

    Posted

    Bye bye cannabis use/products for Texas

    CooterBrown

    Posted (edited)

    On 12/4/2024 at 9:56 PM, tx 3 putt said:

     

    if austin were to become a 'district', would they no longer vote in state elections ?

    Steve Bannon Bingo GIF

    Hello, Austin: The Capitol District

    Hello, Houston: The Energy District

    Hello, Dallas: The 30K Millionaire District

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    bluto

    Posted

    Rip to speaker rino Dade. What a state

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    LCHorn

    Posted

    28 minutes ago, bluto said:

    Rip to speaker rino Dade. What a state

    You know you’ve died and ended up in hell when Phelan’s speakership is the straw you have to grasp in the hopes that the Ledge isn’t full on moron.  Long live speaker Briscoe Cain!

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    Brisketexan

    Posted

    32 minutes ago, bluto said:

    Rip to speaker rino Dade. What a state

     

    2 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    You know you’ve died and ended up in hell when Phelan’s speakership is the straw you have to grasp in the hopes that the Ledge isn’t full on moron.  Long live speaker Briscoe Cain!

    These.

    I'm sure y'all remember Brisketexan's rules, but I'll repost them if you forgot:

    1) It only gets worse.

    2) There is no bottom.

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    Evil Bill Obrien

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    Think Hot Wheels Twitter account got hacked...lolz
     

    Spoiler

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    Hefeweizen

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    The head of the TCEQ commissioners just resigned.  The other two commissioners are political hacks, so odds are we’re going to have three of them.  I’m not a huge Neirmann fan but I think he was pretty by rules as a commissioner and considered all the facts.  Not hopeful for his replacement.

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    naija

    Posted

    what are the opinions on Texas' k-12 education. I see places like Frisco ISD, Plano ISD, Prosper ISD have good rankings, but I'm not certain how to interpret those findings. good according to whom? also are they actually curtailing what kids can learn in school?

    safe sex

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    Every district in Texas is encouraged to teach the Bible, and they get money if they do so.

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    RDCanecutter

    Posted

    13 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    Every district in Texas is encouraged to teach the Bible, and they get money if they do so.

    Old Testament is like a porno version of a Conan story. I was reading Book of Kings as a young spider monkey while the preacher would carry on about forgiveness.

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    royiv

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    5 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    That doctor is a complete idiot if she’s providing telemedicine services without a license in Texas. 

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    Eskimohorn

    Posted

    He knows which party has been in control in Texas for 20 straight years, right?
     
     

    So private companies can fix traffic? Where has this worked? How does it get fixed? Magic?
    Pam Cummings

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    What? You mean building 48202938 new neighborhoods without first building roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic that is created from those neighborhoods might make it to where you can't drive anywhere ever? Wow, who could have seen this coming? Good thing republicans love oversight and putting the needs of society over making maximum amounts of profit for a few societal leaches. 

     

    Just build more toll roads. That will fix everything. And it definitely isn't a double tax or anything.

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    C-Man

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    This seems grim.

    https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/18/in-texas-bipartisanship-is-on-life-support-republicans-could-pull-the-plug/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1K96z1NzdrnI-rW8tkzubTcFtJmh9rgTLhHB5TgqezuQmBjfJp0u8L69c_aem_T1KUpYhawAuvEiBPJaBiRg

    As lawmakers gear up for the 2025 legislative session, Texans are in for a bumpy ride. Buckle your seatbelts.

    A tight competition for the position of speaker of the state House has caused long-simmering tensions between the far-right and moderate-but-still-conservative wings of the Republican Party to boil over with acrimony. Deep fissures exposed during the failed attempt to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton are once again fueling intense party infighting, this time between supporters of Rep. David Cook, whose candidacy for speaker of the House is endorsed by the majority of the Republican caucus, and Rep. Dustin Burrows, an ally of former speaker Rep. Dade Phelan who is challenging Cook with the support of both Republican and Democratic state representatives.

    On Dec. 7, the Republican Party of Texas passed a resolution that implies it would censure — and thereby effectively bar members of the House from participating in primary elections for two years thanks to Rule 44, which was adopted at the 2024 Texas GOP convention — if they don’t support the rightmost wing of the party’s preferred candidate for speaker. Cook, a Republican from Mansfield, has committed to ending the long-standing bipartisan practice of awarding Democratic state representatives with committee chairmanships.

    The resolution was adopted within hours of news that Burrows had released a list of bipartisan supporters that was just long enough to win the race for speaker — only for several Republican lawmakers to subsequently ask for their names to be removed. Regardless of whether the new GOP rule influenced the reversals, the message was the same: Get in line or get squashed.

    And if the attempt to ban Republican lawmakers from primary elections is challenged in court and proves unsuccessful, there’s still a backup plan to fund aggressive primary challenges against Republican state representatives if they don’t support Cook’s bid for speaker, as reported in the Texas Tribune.

    The promise to replace Republican state representatives who would dare honor traditions of bipartisanship mirrors similar threats from the camp of President-elect Donald Trump (via Elon Musk-funded campaigns) to replace Republican senators who don’t vote to confirm Trump’s controversial cabinet picks. (See also: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s modus operandi.) The threats also resemble the tactics of Texas Republican “Christian Kingpin” megadonor Tim Dunn, whose massive oil-funded warchest helped propel a slate of hard right Republican primary challengers to victory over their more moderate incumbent opponents who had voted against school vouchers in the last legislative session.

    The tradition of Texas bipartisanship was once so strong that some considered state level politics “nonpartisan.” Ten years ago, the 2013 session was nicknamed “The Kumbaya Session.” Even under decades of trifecta Republican control of the governorship, legislature, and courts in Texas, a modicum of bipartisanship has remained in the statehouse, even if it has become exceedingly rare. During the speakership of Republican Rep. Dade Phelan, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and largely rural district Republicans prevented the passage of private school voucher bills, a top priority for top GOP donors like Dunn and the Christian nationalist wing of the party that wants to siphon public dollars toward religious education. This past year, Texas Republicans and Democrats have voted together on AI regulation and to temporarily halt the execution of Robert Roberson, a man convicted of murder on the basis of a medical syndrome that is increasingly derided as “junk science.”

    But that bipartisanship has withered away under increasingly authoritarian leadership. Trump’s rise to power, characterized by his idiosyncratic style and eschewal of long-established political traditions, scrambled the governing norms that dominated Republican party politics and is concomitant with the transformation of the Republican Party of Texas from the business-friendly “party of local control” into the party of state preemption and spiritual warfare. Now that Trump is set to be back in power in January, we can reasonably expect our state level politicians to follow his lead.

    As I wrote earlier this month, the dominant right-most wing of the Texas Republican Party is gradually embracing a muscular style of politics that disregards traditions of federalism and bipartisanship in favor of naked will to power. They’ve already demonstrated that they’re unafraid to use the power of big government to strip away local Democratic control. They’ve also called for the creation of a sort of state level electoral college that would decide elections for statewide office based on a “majority vote of the counties with each individual county being assigned one vote allocated to the popular majority vote winner of each individual county” — a system that, if enacted, would likely cement one-party Republican rule at the state level for decades. To achieve this, Republicans would have to successfully pass a joint resolution supporting a State Constitutional Amendment and then voters would have to approve it. The intention behind the proposal is clear — though the probability of its success is not.

    Now, the Texas GOP is poised to wield the party apparatus against fellow Republicans who are willing to reach across the aisle — or oppose the priorities of major donors that don’t align with the interests of their constituents. The demand to support Rep. Cook for speaker, or risk being barred from primary elections, not only serves as further confirmation of the ascendancy of the right-most wing of the state Republican party, but it may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin of bipartisanship in the state. Above all, it sends a clear signal: The Texas GOP has plans, and they are willing to crush anyone who stands in their way.
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    Bozo_Casanova

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Pancho said:

    He knows which party has been in control in Texas for 20 straight years, right?

     

     

    You misspelled 30 years. 

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    C-Man

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Pancho said:

    He knows which party has been in control in Texas for 20 straight years, right?

     

     

    CA Dems' fault

     

    Updawg

    Posted

    CA Dems' fault
     

    Ha nope. CA magas. This state is in big trouble and things set now could set it back decades. This session will be interesting I feel for young families with ties to it
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    Updawg

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    Unreal and disgusting

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