You know how Grover Norquist and the NRA threaten to “primary” Republicans who don’t walk lockstep with their wacko far right unAmerican idiotic hurtful and damn stinkin’ mean goals?

Well, Texas just got lucky.  Republicans here are facing the same threats but from a different group: the people who want to make money off education.

The same group of people who used to sell used cars want  to go into the education business – building private schools.  They used to roll back the speedometer and now they want to roll back arithmetic and reading.

When you think school vouchers, visualize dollar signs going into the pocket of some guy in a plaid sports coat and a belly hanging over his belt.

Texas held back school vouchers this year, thanks to some level-headed GOP support.

GOP heavy hitters in the House joined in the 103-43 bipartisan vote for the budget amendment, saying money appropriated to the Texas Education Agency may not be used for school vouchers or tax-credit scholarships.

The GOP support came from rural Republicans who know full well that vouchers will be the death of Texas rural education.  Nobody seeing dollar signs wants to set up shop in a town with one school and a graduating class of 45 seniors.  So, those public schools will suffer greatly under big business education.

So, it comes down to Republicans threatening to primary each other.  The rightwingers are going to primary those who voted against vouchers and the rural Republicans will ban together to primary those who did.

Democrats?  Well, we’re just pickin’ and grinnin’.