Quotes for the Week

[furrbear]

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
     - All from Molly Ivins, 1944 – 2007

Comments

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree with both of your statements. Karl Rove, to put GWB in office, turned things ridiculously negative - that was 12 years ago, quite a difference from 'always', especially for someone who's been voting here for 28 years.

They voted for George Bush for two main reasons:

1) Democratic Lt. Governor Bob Bullock endorsed him. (For this to make sense, you need to know and understand who Bullock was before he was GuvLite.)

2) A Karl Rove-trademark whisper campaign against her. (The same thing was used against McCain in 2000 in the SC primary.)

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

I could never figure out the insanity of bring Clements back after Mark White. He wasn't that popular after Preston Smith a decade before. But I believe the jerk you're thinking of wasn't Clements. In 1990, Richards ran against Clayton Williams, nominated by the republicans when Clements decided not to run for a third term.

It wasn't just Ann's recovery from alcohol (She didn't hide it, she spoke openly about it) but Rove and company had rumors of her using drugs (cleverly ignoring Shrub snorting the lane markers on I-10), of being a lesbian,...

Ann Richards didn't do too much, she accomplished a LOT of progressive change in a short time. Compared with how little earlier Governors had accomplished, it may have seemed like too much to some.

It was Richards that pushed to get every state agency more accessible to the public by being on the 'Net. I remember being in CA in 2000-2002 and being bafflegasted that TX had a better web presence at the time.

I've always loved San Antonio, in fact all of south Texas. Compared to the tight-assed republicans of the north and eastern parts of the state, it's wonderfully relaxed. (I'm a bit biased - I used to date a rabbi from there.) Sure las abuelas click their tongues and shake their heads, but it tends to be much more 'live and let live.'

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I really miss her ... and I miss the fun I know she would have had with this presidential race and Sarah Palin.

Nobody else is mean enough AND truthful enough to do the Repubbikkkans justice in print any more.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Jim Hightower is still around. Not mean, but truthful and often incredibly funny. Jim's usually described as a progressive populist.

Check out his blog, the Hightower Lowdown or add jimhightowerblg to your Friends List.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

He's good, but he's nowhere near as mean as Molly was.

*sigh*

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Done. Thank you!

[mellowtigger]

Yes, I miss Molly Ivins too.