26 May 2007

Democracy - Texas style

Ah Texas. They always do things bigger and bolder down there. It must have something to do with the fact that the state was once, however briefly, a country in its own right.

Now things are getting a bitted stirred up in the state's House of Representatives because the Speaker, Republican Tom Craddick, is refusing to countenance attempts to remove him from office. He reign has been so ham-fisted that even the other members of his party can't stand him. Yesterday when fellow Republican Fred Hill tried to enter a motion to allow a vote to remove him from office Speaker Craddick refused to recognise him and when that was appealed he said that "the speaker's discretion to recognize a member on a motion on any matter is unappealable (sic)". After Craddick left the building Democrats attempted to storm the podium but were "restrained" by capital police.

If only the Democrats had been exercising their 2nd Amendment rights to carry firearms perhaps they would have succeeded!

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