Political palace intrigue – Perry’s next steps
Yesterday, Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka wrote a provocative piece in which he mulled over whether Rick Perry wants Mitt Romney to lose. The crux of the piece is, if Perry is now attempting to set himself...
View ArticleBuzz from the TV show
On last week’s Capital Tonight on YNN Austin, which was a pre-game show of sorts for the U.S. Senate race debate last Thursday, I was asked to war game out what was at stake for the candidates. I said...
View ArticleNotes on the Texas primary elections
Texas politicos waited so long to have a primary election that it seems completely anti-climatic now that it’s over. But at least for the truly-addicted like me (wipe that smug look off your face –...
View ArticleBuzz from the TV show: the US Senate runoff elections
On this week’s Capital Tonight, I was asked to handicap the challenges facing the surviving candidates as they compete over the next two months in their respective political parties’ primary runoff...
View ArticleTexas political leadership needs a Prozac prescription
Following yesterday’s primary run-off elections, it seems as good a time as any to review some of the reasons why your current state government might suck. Last night’s election results serve to...
View ArticleAbout that Dewhurst-Cruz thing
As there always is after an electoral loss which the heavy bettors were on the wrong side, there has been, and continues to be, endless backroom blather on what happened. The (usually) unspoken axiom...
View ArticleDavid Dewhurst, please call your office
On second thought, after seeing this screen shot from the Statesman website, maybe you shouldn’t.
View ArticleScandal-ridden Texas cancer agency is offensive
On last week’s “Capital Tonight” show on YNN Austin, the subject of the criminal investigations of CPRIT, the Texas cancer agency, was front and center. Here’s my take.
View ArticleThe six percent
Today’s a big day for Democrats in the state legislature. And at the end of the day, they’ll probably think they won a big one. Thankfully, they’re working hard to kill a bill which, if it passed,...
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The greatest deliberative body in the world?
“The Texas Senate is the greatest deliberative body in the world.” If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. Texas state Senators of both parties love to say it. I wonder if they even...
View ArticleDavid Dewhurst’s distraction
The David Dewhurst phone call heard ’round the world is mostly, bluntly, hysterically funny. Blazingly stunning in the level of his awkwardness, he was stumbling over his own words in an obvious...
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