The I-have-too-much-to-blog-about post
Let's see. Where should I start? Bill filing started in the Texas Legislature this week, and there are some great bills and some real stinkers. Mark Davis on WBAP in Dallas had a great Kay Bailey Hutchison vs Rick Perry segment this morning that bears discussion and thought. We've got an interesting choice coming up for RNC chairman, and Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich are leading the race. The conservative movement is all a-flutter over rebranding and where should the change start and should there be change, etc.
So. Bullet point it is.
- Worst bill of early filing so far is Rep. Mark Strama's HB 105, the "Campaign Fairness Act," which creates contributions limits for executive and legislative offices.
- 2nd worst bill of early filing so far is Rep. Fred Brown's HB 100, which would change (lower) the legislative requirement of history and civics courses in our state universities.
- My favorite piece of legislation to date is Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa's tuition limitation bill, SB 105, which puts a moratorium on tuition increases at state universities for two years, and then only allows tuition hikes to happen at the rate of inflation each year after that. It also requires a majority vote of the student body to increase any fee. Six Republicans are backing this, including Senators Tommy Williams, Dan Patrick, and Jane Nelson. Bully for them, and bully for Sen. Hinojosa!
- Rick Perry vs. Kay Bailey Hutchison. It's generally assumed that these two will be battling it out for the Republican nomination for governor in 2010. Mark Davis brought up the salient point - if we're trying to get back to our conservative roots, neither Perry nor Hutchison really help us there. I'll have more on this later.
- Michael Steele vs. Newt Gingrich. I'm leaning toward Newt (have you seen American Solutions?), though I like both. Sean Hannity has endorsed Michael Steele.
- Conservative movement? Let's start with the Republican Party.
2 comments:
seems nearly impossible to rebuild the republican party. how do you intend to kick out the neo-cons that have destroyed it and turned it into the national socialism party? Seems like the best bet for "conservatives," is to jump ship, and join up with the Constitution Party or the libertarian (not the Libertarians, they're a joke.)
And i'm all for them lowering the requirement of history and civics courses. Less opportunity for brainwashing. My gov professor told the class that, sure, lincoln did away with habeas corpus, had political opponents exiled, jailed, and executed...but he allowed the election to continue, so he wasnt a tyrant. I guess my prof forgot to mention that people had to march through lines of troops to get to the polls.
Suggesting that higher education requirements be based on one person's experience with one professor is absurd. If we took this approach, we'd end up with no classes in our curriculum, because there's always someone who won't agree with this professor or that about some aspect of what they teach.
Lowering educational standards would be a disaster for Texas. We have students coming in from the high schools that cannot successfully identify the three branches of the federal government and this redneck from Bryan apparently doesn't think civics and history is important. Astonishing.
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