It ain’t like Texas has money to spare.  We spent what little we had left on security for Governor Rick Perry to embarrass the entire damn state while running for President.

And now Governor Perry and his little buddy Attorney General Greg Abbott are having a dollar burning party with their failed efforts to redistrict Texas so we would  vote to join the confederacy and then require voter ID that made you have a driver’s license, a voter ID card, and a letter from your Momma attesting that you weren’t born in no damn test tube or something.

They, of course, lost all those lawsuits and it cost Texans $2 million and counting.  The reason I say “and counting” is that in Texas, the losing side of a lawsuit, thanks to Republicans, has to pay the attorneys fees for the winning side.  Their original goal in passing that cunning piece of legislation was to keep little guys from suing big corporations when big corporations hurt or killed them.  Well now, it’s come back to honk their hiney because everybody in Texas hired a legal team to represent their interest in court – The Texas Democratic Party, LULAC, NAACP,  and a particularly militant branch of the PTA.  The State of Texas will have to pay all their attorney fees.

Happy NOW, Rick and Greg?

Rick and Greg have vowed to appeal because, after all, it’s not their money they are burning.  They will lose and Texans will pay.

All this just to keep legitimate college students, grandmas, and minorities from voting because, dammit, those people don’t vote for Greg and Rick.

One other thing – if attorneys in private practice had screwed up a case as badly as Greg Abbott did, they’d be fired.  They would spend the rest of their legal careers practicing out of a trailer park.  So, I don’t want to hear one word about market forces from Greg Abbott, Mr. Tea Party,  ever again.

Hey Greg, it seems to me that they treaded all over your hiney.

Thanks to Ben, the Riverwalk Guide in San Antonio, for the heads up.