Saturday, April 02, 2011

The De-funding of Texas

I meant to catch up on my rest this weekend, but I stayed up way too late Friday night watching the Texas Tribune's live feed of the budget debate in the Lege and reading their live blogging of it.  They stopped in the wee hours and are going to start up again Sunday.  Here is a link to the blogging of it.  The Republicans are super-scary - all about de-funding programs that have anything to do with family planning as they talk about how contraception is bad and all about requiring that 10% of classes taught at state universities be about Western Civilization, but being very hedge-y about defining just what that is. These are scary times, folks.  Just sexist and racist and scary, all of it.  I was very impressed with how Rep. Mike Villarreal and Rep. Eddie Lucio fought the good fight...not that they were winning much, but they sure tried.

1 comment:

Andrea said...

Ugh, isn't it awful? We have a nutso Governor here too, now, and a handful of the same in the Leg. (though most seem more moderate), and when you add it to what's going on in Congress, it's just too depressing to get out of bed some days.