Top Ten Signs You Are Suffering From Legislative Fatigue
By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 20, 2007 in 80th Legislature, Humor
It only happens once every two years (barring Special Sessions), but for those of us who follow the legislature (and, I’m sure, for the staffers and legislators themselves), paying close attention to everything the Lege is doing can be…well, somewhat tiring.
Here at Capitol Annex, as much as we love Lege watching, we’re getting a bit fatigued just as we’ve passed the 60-day mark. So, in the spirit of David Letterman, we thought we’d come up with a little “top ten list.”
TOP TEN SIGNS YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM LEGISLATIVE FATIGUE
10. Every window or tab in your Internet browser is pointing to something at “Texas Legislature Online.”
9. You find yourself saying things like, “Oh, my God! Did you see the Fiscal Note and Bill Analysis to HB 1009 yet?”
8. Every other word or phrase out of your mouth is, “conservator,” “legislative intent,” “committee substitute,” or “local and consent calendar.”
7. You star to panic when you can’t access the webcast of the House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism.
6. You know exactly how many bills have been filed for consideration before the Legislature, but can no longer remember your phone number, your ATM pin number, or anything else.
5. While watching TV, you also watch a Webcast of the Senate Committe on Criminal Jurisprudence and consider it “multi-tasking.”
4. It is suddenly of vital importance to you know exactly how Tan Parker and Joe Heflin vote on every single amendment.
3. You have spent so much time talking about “Jessica’s Law” that your friends think it is a spin-off of Law and Order.
2. No matter how bad your sinus headache is, you have to get out of bed and check the agenda for the House Committee on Agriculture.
1. You start wondering what it would be like if Simon Cowell was Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
I actually understood to what you are referring.