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Excellent! I can finally change the script that everyone in Austin has been hearing from me!

Instead of "will you bug Perry to put it on the agenda?", now it's "be sure to vote for it if you want my continued support!"

stevie_d_64 wrote:I have to honestly have to say that Dan Patrick is a political coward...I am not impressed at all with his performance this session, and I believe that is a fair assessment...

Why introduce a bill, that is obviously contraversial, slaps the Feds in the face, and then pull the bill you introduced, just because someone from the Justice Department brings you a letter threatening commerce in your state???

I heard Patrick interviewed about this a while earlier in Kevin Wall's show on KTSA. His reasoning was that there is no way he'll get enough votes to bring it up for discussion, and he didn't want it killed outright, so he pulled it. Once he saw that there was no way he was going to get the 21 votes he needed, he gave up.

Apparently, he had 30 votes for it when it came to the floor, but as soon as it went to the floor, Dewhurst started distributing "The Letter" and senators started dropping off right and left. They even came up to Patrick on the floor when he was discussing it and said that Dewhurst was trying to kill it out from under him.

He said that he was ready to go a few days ago, and Dewhurst wasn't ready to bring it up; he kept telling Patrick to wait. Then, Dewhurst apparently used Watson to get "The Letter" out (which Dewhurst apparently requested be written) so Dewhurst wouldn't have "his fingerprints" on the killing of the bill. Watson's office phones were so blown up by today that he and his staff were loudly proclaiming that Dewhurst was behind it, even though it was supposed to be a secret deal to keep Dewhurst clean.

That's Patrick's say on it, FWIW.

Scott in Houston wrote:I just created this... new battle flag for Texas?

I hope you don't mind - I just "appropriated" this image for my Facebook profile.

Do these guys/gals HONESTLY think that the Feds would shut down air travel leaving Texas? It would destroy an already broken economy, and the airlines would not stand for it. This was a bluff from the Feds and the whiny, spineless congresscritters wet their pants and fell for it. Dewhurst is no longer at the top of my list as a good gubernatorial candidate.