Oh Dan, Dan, The Secrets Man
Okay, for you folks from foreign states here’s some background on this story.
Dan Patrick got elected Lt. Governor of Texas. Worse things have happened in Texas but not many.
Dan Patrick is as far rightwing as you can get without falling off the earth, something Dan has done once or twice. He has become a tad paranoid this session, believing that the Governor and the Speaker of the House are picking on him.
Okay, any good story also has a plot thickener. Here’s one: a group called The American Phoenix Foundation has been secretly videotaping moderate Republican members of the Texas Legislature. They have 800 hours of what they consider damaging videotape they have turned over to Breitbart Texas.
Bringing the two together and you get —
A senior staffer in Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s office knew lawmakers were being secretly videotaped by a conservative nonprofit, but did not make senators aware because it did not involve anyone in the upper chamber.
The Texas Department of Public Safety briefed Patrick Chief of Staff Logan Spence on the videotaping previous to the story breaking last week, Patrick spokesman Alejandro Garcia confirmed Monday. Spence did not ask DPS to brief the full Senate, however, because no senators were believed to have been targeted by the group.
Of course, nobody believes that Spence didn’t tell Dan Patrick because Dan Patrick is a gossipy little ole bitty who would relish seeing moderate Republicans get beat and be replaced by his wildly crazy rightwing militia. Dan Patrick would kiss Spence on the mouth to know secret stuff like this and would gleefully supply additional names of people to tape.
It’s gonna be like feeding red meat to lions in the Republican caucus in Austin.
Hell, this is better than recess in heaven!
Yuck! This reminds me of those LSD patients in the state mental hospital who cannot stop themselves from chewing off their own fingers and toes and whatever else is available. This spying on selected legislators and filming them etc. etc. is the kind of stuff that eats away at an organization or philosophy from the inside right at the bloodiest point of the guts. And it this kind of monster can turn on the perpetrators in a flash. Wait 5 seconds and you will hear how THEY have been victimized and its all a war on Christians!
1Whadda guy. Wonder how he got from failed Walmart greeter to Light Governor? No offense intended to Walmart greeters.
2Dan Patrick is so far around the bend that he meets himself coming.
3Maggie, ya’ nailed it! Gonna be a whole lotta whining going on.
4I wouldn’t mind infighting among Republicans except for the fear that the rightmost, craziest, most immoral SOBs are going to win. Texans will probably chime in to tell me that they generally do.
5They should tape Patrick.
6*Gonna be a whole lotta whining going on.*
Set Jerry Lee Lewis loose and set this to music!
7Rethugs eating each other. Who knew? Well, anybody who’s ever studied “revolutions.” Cambodia with its Khmer Rouge is a classic example of the genre.
8At least nobody was licking anybody’s camera lens! o.0
9for the classic definition of a psychopath look no further than dan. soon to be even more entertaining………..
10Wow. He’s one of the smarmiest people I’ve ever seen. He’s giving The Huckster a run for his money.
11He’s a radio and TV preacher. I worked the polls the day he won the primaries. Most of the voters had that intense, determined look that the rest of us have when we tell our families I WANT THAT MESS CLEANED UP AND I WANT IT DONE NOW. So sad.
12And s’posing he DID something more interesting. Who’s gonna stop him? and if they did, what about Abbott?
13These guys are sort of like cannibalistic lemmings.
14Patrick looks like a 60’s teen idol/serial killer cross with just a skinch of skunk tossed in.
15What a self-revealing photograph! What you see is (Lord help us) what we’ve got, folks.
16Looks like a tv preacher with his hand out for your hard earned dollars.
17Can’t help but pray that the Repugs who get taped become so disgusted that they come on over to the Dark Side, you know, the party of tree huggers and bleeding hearts-us.
18I was royally po’d when i learned my state rep Lois Kolkhorst had used Joseph Basel as a campaign consultant. Lois used to be a human being but now she’s definitely gone over to the dark side. She also sponsored anti-abortion legislation.
19@Maggie: LSD never did that to anyone. Methamphetamine, perhaps, particularly when combined with other psychotropic substances, but not acid. I speak from experience, and know whereof I speak.
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