Why I hate Texas

[coljam]

This morning I listened to former senator Kay B. Hutchison go on as to why Texas GOP policies should be a blueprint for the county. Well what does the GOP want to do in Texas?
1. stop all abortion
2treat immigrants with hate
3 Ban morning after pill
4 Privatize education
5 Make gays go to conversion therapy

This is just a start,they want Ted Cruz to be president. I think the easiest way to kill a snake is while it is in its shell We all know the following is also true in Texas

1 Rate near the bottom in education
2 Highest# n of people without insurance
3 Highest number of unwed mothers
4 Lowest tax rate for the 1%
5 Most income disparity

These are just a few points of what is wrong with Texas dont bring these crazy things to my state . We must STOP this Texas crazy b4 we are stuck with living in a place like Texas.Cruz is BUsh on steroids.

[hobbit709]

1. So do you hate the states around you too?

After all, you have Wisconsin on one side and Indiana on the other.

[coljam]

2. They are bad but

not as bad as texas.We must destroy Cruz politically.

[roguevalley]

48. I sort of have this idea if you live in a state and hate it you have that right

you are there, you are in the mire, you can hate it.

I on the other hand would have to justify hating texas because I don't live there. I think what makes me want to lie down about states like this is that they crow about their superiority while they slowly sink in the mud.

I feel like that sometimes about Alaska but not often. Just when Sarah Palin opens her yap.

[former9thward]

3. Why did you move to someplace that you hate?

That is weird. BTW those with the highest income disparity are DC, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_coefficient

[coljam]

4. I dont quite beleive

these stats

[coljam]

5. I think

Texas is one of the leaders in child poverty

[lpbk2713]

6. But ...

[blogslut]

7. That's okay.

We'll turn blue without your help, thankyouverymuch.

[coljam]

11. From your mouth to

gods ears. But what I see from Texas is more and more craies IE. Cruz

[tammywammy]

13. +1

[betterdemsonly]

8. Not going to end anytime soon

Unfortunately Dems down there are bad campaigners and only slightly to the left of the republicans and run that way.

The only election worth paying attention to from a progressive perspective is Kinky Friedman for Ag Commissioner.

[blogslut]

12. Dick Friedman?

Haha. You're funny. Also, he lost.

[betterdemsonly]

14. To a socalled democrat

that boasted of support from Ted Nugent and Rick Perry and admitted he only ran as a dem because the republican field was too crowded, which only proves my point.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Hogan-thumps-Kinky-in-race-for-Ag-Commissioner-5508458.php

Back when dems controlled TX they were right wing democrats.

[blogslut]

23. Mr. Friedman is far more fickle in his allegiances.

He's a Republican! No wait, he's an Independent! No, no, no, he's a Democrat! Every time Kinky loses, he switches parties. What's next? Maybe he should start the SOMF party.

[betterdemsonly]

25. He is not fickle in views though

and he isn't a fundamentalist, antiabortion creationist gun nut, with the endorsement of Rick Perry, and Ted Nugent, like the one the dems nominated. Democrats down there have no values what so ever if they would nominate someone like that. Your seriously going to expect progressives in Tx to vote for a Teabag headcase just because he is a democrat, just because you decided Kinky isn't one of the tribe.

[blogslut]

31. I will never forgive what he did to Chris Bell

Never.

[betterdemsonly]

34. He didn't do anything Chris Bell

Chis Bell was a republican in Democrat clothes too. The party isn't as important as what it stands for. If the democrats act like right wingers they deserve to lose. It is nothing but team sports, bloods vs crips, and people are right not to give a shit.

http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/search/label/Kinky%20Friedman

[blogslut]

36. Oh, FFS

Now you're just talking out of a place that isn't your mouth. Chris Bell is the reason Tom Delay was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy. Chris Bell supports LGBT rights, education funding, CHIP and opposes the Trans-Texas corridor.

As far as Jim Hogan is concerned you don't know a damned thing about his political positions because nobody knows. There is no proof he's some gun-nut, anti-abortion fundy like you claim. The man is an absolute mystery but he at least has working experience running a ranch, unlike King Friedman of the Hollow Buzzwords.

[betterdemsonly]

40. No proof about Hogan's political

positions other than his own words and endorsements. Chris Bell endorsed Kinky over Hogan.

[blogslut]

41. I won't say you're making stuff up...

but I must ask, do you even live in Texas?

[betterdemsonly]

43. This isn't a Texas

blog, so I don't have to. Don't comment on Tx if you don't think others have a right.

[blogslut]

44. This isn't a blog.

It's a message board.

Of course you have the right to speak and I have the right to disagree with you and to tell you I am a Texan and I will vote a straight Democratic ticket come November and there's not a damned thing you can do about it.

[betterdemsonly]

45. And since I didn't tell you how to vote

you wouldn't be talking to me. Personally, I hope Kinky runs as an indy again since the dems are going to insult him by preferring a closet republican. I would definately vote for him over a Rick Perry Democrat too. I am liberal first and foremost. If the party is going to run people indistinguishable from teabag republicans they can lose.

[snooper2]

9. Well bless your little heart

[TBF]

16. + 1000 - great response! nt

[Antler]

10. Sounds like an ulcer waiting to happen...

Breathe deepens try to approach it logically and coolly...

[TBF]

15. Do you have any evidence to back up these claims?

I am originally from Wisconsin (born in the 60s - I lived there when it was still blue) and now live in Texas. Frankly I don't see much difference with the obvious exception of the weather being opposite. I think you'd better do some research before you completely dismiss Texas. Start with the manufacturing town of San Antonio (ie - it's really a huge labor city - in the top 10 of this country in terms of population) ... and then read about the demographics.

Nobody is going to elect Ted Cruz to be president. That is the most insane thing I've read in awhile. And if you are in Chicago you have a lot to answer for with Rahm Emanuel as mayor. Frankly I can't think of a single way in which he is better than Cruz.

[coljam]

19. Don't

feel obligated to stick up for the shit hole that is GOP texas

[TBF]

24. You didn't answer my question -

I live here now. I'm not especially thrilled about it, but I do see some glimmer of hope here. There is a very strong communist club here in Houston for example - much stronger than CPUSA. And we have labor to organize which is more than most states can say after their jobs have been shipped away by both repug and dem administrations. I'm a socialist rather than a dem so that may make my perspective a little different than your own. But I'd still like to see you actually back up your hyperbole with some stats/articles.

[karadax]

17. What did Hutchinson actually say ?

What things did she mention ? Curious is all. I think what you mentioned were everything but her words.

[coljam]

18. Loojk at

the interview on MSnbc

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20. ALSO LOOK AT

the Texas GOP platform

[Stallion]

22. Kay Bailey Hutchison Is not The problem

...she merely politely stepped around each of the controversial Republican platform planks-and said basically she supports the Party. She did stress that she was concerned with the rhetoric against Hispanics

[Gothmog]

21. The Texas GOP is over-reaching

The tea party takeover of the Texas GOP is complete. The platform planks of reparative therapy and immigration will not help the GOP with moderate voters and there are some. Dan Patrick is a nut case and there are Hispanic republicans who are scared of him.

I really think that there will be backlash to this stupidity

[yeoman6987]

26. Can you add politics at the end of your title

Texas is a wonderful state...the politics right now is just messed up....that can be fixed, but the way you sound (on title), you hate the actual state and your mind can't be changed.

[question everything]

27. 6. will gladly imitate Las Vegas and shoot police officers

to justify carrying guns in public.

[donco]

28. Good-by.

Don’t let the Lone Star gate hit ya in the ass on the way out.

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29. Also

Texas is 1st in the number of people working at or below min. wage

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30. Also Again

they have at least 10 congressmen that are totally NUTS.

[snooper2]

32. I think I figured it out, either you are trying WAY to hard-

Or your ex left and went to Texas

[TBF]

46. I vote for trying way too hard. nt

[antiGOPin294]

33. What a truly asinine, simplistic post

Have you forgotten about the millions of Texans who proudly voted for Obama? Or about the fact that Austin is very blue? I'll admit Texas has lots of problems, but your generalizations are really unfair.

[seabeyond]

35. i sat on jury to let your post stand. i live in texas, and do not like it. you misrepresent texas.

many do. it is unfortunate out of hate, people kinda do not have a grasp of reality.

i see bigotry across the nation. stupid across the nation. to single texas out in this manner, just is not a truth.

but.

ok.

[coljam]

37. Hate

That was meant to be hyperbolic.I do wish to light a fire under those with literal and middle spectrum politics. I do believe that most Texans should be embarrassed at what masquerades as normal or moral in your state. You guys in Texas must have fallen asleep to have your state taken over by lunatics and bigots.The democratic party has little or no say in Texas politics.

[seabeyond]

39. and calif, nv, montana, conn, florida, wisc, michigan, az, ect....

you seem to miss the point.

[KamaAina]

38. They should be a blueprint for the county.

Loving County in west Texas. Population 82. As far as I'm concerned, all the RW whackjobs can congregate there.

[LanternWaste]

42. I kinda like the place.

I kinda like the place. Wonderful friends, supportive family, progressive congregation, diverse community, and I get to walk to work when the weather is agreeable. I'd guess pretty much any place would feel the same as you described if one is lacking what I have.

But then again, I've never lived anywhere which is either absolutely good nor absolutely bad, and feel that regardless of where I live, I fight for those things I believe in, and struggle against those thing I don't.