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Yesterday, Governor Rick Perry vetoed the ban against texting while driving bill.

“I support measures that make our roads safer for everyone, but House Bill 242 is a government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults,” Perry wrote in his explanation of one of his vetoes.

Uh, what is a seatbelt requirement?  Or proof of insurance requirement?  Or the ban against driving while intoxicated?

“Now, right here you got yourself a Governor who pushed hard to force a transvaginal sonogram on woman planning to do something perfectly legal and constitutionally protected by Having the government put a probe in her vagina against her will, but a ban on texting while driving is too much government interference,” Juanita explains to people from foreign states.

“Since when did we get the freedom to drive unsafely?  But, more importantly,” she asks, “every damn time a texting driver kills or injures someone, does Rick Perry get to put a notch in his belt?”

“We micromanage the behavior of adults all the time.  You cannot run through your neighborhood wearing nothing but a coonskin hat and a pleasant smile.  You cannot fix stubborn stoplights with your 12 gauge.  Who knew?  I certainly didn’t.  You cannot moon the Governor, and that seems unnecessarily restrictive to me,” she says.