Texas speaker of the house being challenged!

[johncoby2]

Holy shit folks!

The parlimantarian(sp?) has resigned from the house.

The Speaker, Tom Craddick, a Tom DeLay crony, is being grilled.

This is very very unusual! The republicans are trying to remove their own speaker!

It is all live at:

http://www.house.state.tx.us/fx/av/live/extlive80kchamber.ram

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Craddick has been...

A festering boil on the right asscheek of Texas for too long. It's about time they lanced him.

[madfloridian]

2. Wow, this is impressive.

Thanks.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Great Entertainment from our native criminal class in Austin!!

"Congress is America's only distinctly native criminal class." -- Mark Twain

[madfloridian]

4. Is that Craddick they are asking questions of and being ignored?

What an SOB

[NoPasaran]

6. Yep, that's Tom Craddick

Hopefully in the last hours of his speakership.

The voice off camera telling him what to say is my former state rep Terry Keel who Craddick hired as parliamentarian tonight.

[blogslut]

5. I can't watch the feed

My child has comandeered the broadband comp.

Can anyone tell my if my Repub rep, John Smithee is involved in the fray? He's kinda balding, about 60 years old and with big, blue eyes and a kind face. A really good guy and oddly, a Republican.

ADD: This is him:

I am praying he's one of the ones trying to take Craddock down. Then again, he's been our rep forever and he's kept his job by laying low.

[madfloridian]

7. How did it go finally? I lost the feed.

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