January 09, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Oy.
1Huh. I still don’t believe this.
2It’s getting awfully hard to be proud of Texas. For some reason I thought it would be much more pleasant after “W” was gone….then Perry turned out to be even more of an ass and now Abbott and his compadres are just plain nuts. I am convinced that there must be something in the water for the last 2 decades in rural Texas. Who on God’s green earth would vote for these nuts?
3He’s a total failure at mental competence. Thus, he acts like, well, a total failure.
4Hey, Texas! How’s Wendy Davis lookin’ now, huh?
5In all seriousness: if Abbott gets his way on reaming out the Constitution, would that allow a state to declare itself immune from the 13th Amendment, and to thereby re-impose slavery within its borders? I gotta tell you, the 2nd Amendment is looking more attractive to me, by the minute……
6He undoubtedly wants to be able to have a gun when he’s finally committed.
7JAKvirginia, if Wendy Davis is the next governor of Texas, that would make she and Ann Richards the two roses with the 3 thorns between them being Dumbya, Hairball and A-Butt.
The political ancillary: only a woman can govern Texas.
8“Bonus Digital Content”
Hey, Greg and allll the Repukes: Y’all always have my middle digit in view…
9I don’t live in his state, nor did I vote for him.
10If you want to ruin Texas, Abbott, fine.
Keep your hands off the rest of the US!
Sorry, let me redo the above . It is not fine that he wants to ruin Texas, but he should be governing the state, not the country.
The people of Texas voted you in, they had a choice, they chose Poorly!
Tend to your own patch and leave mine alone.
The Republicans are liars and hypocrites. Compassionate conservatives, constitutional conservatives are lies.
11In one glance I lost my ability to speak. I did think, “dafuc…?”
Texas: the US Laboratory for Bad Policy and Poor Choices while holding a flag and carrying a Bible.
12JAKV, I think most of us Dems in Texas knew from the git-go that Davis wasn’t really that great a candidate. I saw her on one of her swings through East Texas and I wasn’t impressed. More so I was completely saddened and turned off regarding her candidacy. All she spoke about was her moment in the Texas lege when she stood up for abortion rights. As if that one defining moment — shining as it might have been — was enough reason to vote for her.
Leticia Van de Putte on the other hand impressed me. Wish she had been at the top of the ticket.
Still, Davis would have been a vast improvement to anything from the GOP.
13I would wish something bad on Abbott but fear Dan Patrick would be even worse. Kind of like the George Bush / Dan Quayle conundrum
14I see a need for greatly expanding the mental health budget in Texas…
15Diane, it would be fair if A-Butt, Wanker, Snyder and all the snacilbupeR Koch sponsored ALEC sucking governors were federally indicted with the bills for their damage sent directly to Charles, David and their oligarch co-conspirators. Their st00pid is made all the more difficult to bear, when the bills for their misdeeds are sent to be paid by we the people/taxpayers.
16The law enforcement community for decades have had the common sense to leave their sidearm at the front desk when entering an mental health facilities.
What information could the Gov. have that would go against all common sense and allow a loaded weapon in a facility housing insane, criminally insane ( I assume Tejas puts the criminally insane in a mental facility, or do they throw them back out in to the street?) and those that don’t need to be tempted with the opportunity to “grab” a gun.
Please, vote out stupidity.
As for the constitutional convention, when you open up changes to he constitution, everything goes. The RW would go stupid when they find out that someone proposes to make abortions constitutionally legal.
17Mark J: Thanks for your insight about Davis. And I agree about Leticia. But as I see it, any Democrat anywhere in Texas would be better than what’s running the place now. And that just plain sad. Texans deserve better.
18I am in favor of guns being open carried into churches whose parishioners worship guns.
19Openly carrying guns into mental hospitals. I just can’t see anything going wrong with that.
On second thought, it’s looking more and more as if Texas IS a mental hospital, and the open carry doesn’t help.
20Oh… and here’s a tasty treat. Presidential candidate and current Republican front-runner Donald Trump says there will be “no gun-free zones” when HE becomes President. COOL! I’ll be able to open carry at the White House! Hey, Donnie! How you doin’? Sweet!
21@Sam in San Antonio: While Daddy Dubya was in office, that was the only time I prayed to the Universe that he remain healthy. I didn’t think the USA would survive Little Danny Quayle. Based on the recent experiences with the Quayle Clones, I was right.
Sigh; I fear for our Republic.
22I don’t like guns. They give me the creeps. If you carry a gun you’re more likely to get shot. Now, if you want a skunk killed with an 8 foot T post, let me know. I can do that.
23I think you are wrong Coprolite:
“I assume Tejas puts the criminally insane in a mental facility”
They elect them to public office.
24@ Debbo: As I recall, the Texas Legislature already allows the open carrying of firearms. Perhaps the other mental institutions raised an equal protection argument?
25@RepubAnon, the Tejas Leg. installed panic buttons in their offices,
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/texas-lawmakers-vote-for-panic-buttons/njnwk/
in the event that they became afraid for their safety.
Apparently the installation wasn’t cheap.
Maybe they can install panic buttons in the mental institutions and instruct the patients to hit the button whenever they spot a gun. Might give the patients something else to focus on for awhile. Make it a game.
26I’d like to hit the panic button when I see Abbott open his mouth.
27Abutt is disgusting!
28I continue to be bewildered by the choices Texans made in bringing these nuts into positions of power. I keep saying we must find a way to break the brainwashed swell of stupidity pounding the R keys robotically come time to cast the vote. People need to start focusing on who these candidates are and what they represent before they push that magic R button. Abbott indulged in pandering to the right wing whacks regarding the Jesse Helm so called invasion of Texas by sending the Texas State Guard to “monitor” the federal government?? I am hoping he will take a trip up to Oregon to help out those nut jobs–more his style–I think this man thinks he will be the Nominee for Pres in 2020!! By then, he will be thinking differently about altering the US Constitution as he will have to be pandering to others outside the Texas state line!!
29Since Abbott has no power to change the Constitution, I am OK for now. If his form of insanity spreads to people who could actually vote that way (and I am not sure it hasn’t) we need prayer and a whole lot more.
30JAKV, I agree that Davis would have been better than any of the GOP cretins. My point is that if we are going to win at the state level, we need to be fielding particularly strong candidates. Davis wasn’t one.
I’ve recently started receiving emails from Davis again, which tells me she is planning a political move of some sorts. Wish she would just fade away.
31Wendy Davis’ problem was the same one which has afflicted other Democrats: she hired top-tier Democratic campaign consultants, and followed their advice. Time and time again, we see these folks fly into a campaign like seagulls: eating up all the available resources, distributing guano everywhere, and flying away from the mess they created.
These folks learned triangulation as a winning tactic during Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign – the same way the French learned the value of fortified borders during World War 1. Just as the French thought the Maginot Line would protect them from invasion despite the advent of modern aircraft and tanks, the top-flight Democratic campaign consultants think taking a strong progressive stand loses campaigns in the 21st Century because it didn’t work in the 1990s.
As Donald Trump has proven, the tactics which once guaranteed a speedy loss in an election now seem to be the key to winning. Hopefully the campaign consultants for the Democrats this time around will realize that they’ve got to start telling the middle class that their woes are caused by Republican policies, and that Democratic policies are the cure.
32Mark J and RepubAnon, thanks to both of you for the clarification. Since losing the election, Wendy Davis has been speaking and apparently without the ‘help’ of triangulation operatives. She is coming across as more natural and the intelligent, educated woman that she is. For the sake of Texas, I hope one loss doe not discourage her or Leticia from elevating the discourse and becoming the next Gov or Senator from Texas.
33To all: I think the problem with Dems is too many times they speak AT the people, not TO them. R’s, with the excellent training of Karl Rove, speak TO the people: to their fears and their bigotry. It’s basic, primal, and it works. If Dems are to succeed we, too, have to speak TO the people: to their strengths and basic goodness — those things that make us all Americans.
34Off topic, but I gotta share this. You have so much fun pointing out the lapses between sanity and law enforcement and stuff like that, I am enjoying one of the best books in a long time, starting with “Buck Fever”, book one of the Blanco County Mysteries. Seems like Texas has its answer to Carl Hiaason for pointing out certain moral and ethical lapses among people who should know better. Don’t know if it’s in the library, but is available on Kindle. And there’s seven more to revel in.
35I worry less about Abbott changing the Constitution than I do about the Repub Supreme Court changing it.
36“Buck Fever”, which Linda Phipps recommends, is currently free in the Kindle edition at Amazon. No guarantees on that lasting beyond today. (They like to make the first in a series free for a while to suck you into buying the rest.)
37Rhea, Yeah, I got mine free … but even if I have to pay, it’s a worthwhile suck, unlike the real life lobbyist sucking.
38@Linda – I’ve been chuckling at Ben Rehder’s Blanco County books for years. Ben writes great satire and anyone who likes JJ or Harold Cook or – bless her departed soul, Molly Ivins – will enjoy Ben for his Texas tales. He makes his home in Austin and lately I’ve been needling him in emails about reality outrunning the craziness he thinks up. Buy Ben’s books. They’re lots of laughs and a bargain when Kindle versions go on sale from time to time on Amazon.
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