Did Riddle Have Nothing Better To Do This Session?
Vince Leibowitz | May 07, 2007 | Comments 1
A big, fat, giant kudos to Redneck Mother, a blog which I was heretofore unfamiliar with, for this excellent commentary on Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) and her flag pledge bill:
I’m surprised that the bill’s author, Republican Debbie Riddle, doesn’t have more pressing matters to work on. She sits on the Operation and Management Committee for the Texas Youth Commission; TYC has been mired in a disgraceful inmate sexual abuse scandal for weeks now, indicative of years of institutional rot and corruption. On the other hand the House just slapped a bandaid on TYC, postponing the heavy lifting of reform until 2009. Time to cut loose and get religion, I guess.
I would also assume other House members — who voted in lemming-like droves to approve this world-changing legislation — would have more important work, too. A bill that would protect the rights of nursing mothers and babies is stuck in committee. Our public-school and health-insurance trainwrecks have long been rusting by the tracks. Foster children are camping out in state offices because there’s nowhere else to put them. But now we’ll have a popular diety in a pledge most Texans have never heard of so everything’s gonna be all right.
Rarely will Capitol Annex say this, but, “we couldn’t have said this better ourselves.”
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