my God I live in a state that wants to keep dead women alive so they can give birth to deformed babies

Unfortunately I live in Texas- which at one point I would have been proud of- after all LBJ started the war on poverty and gave us the civil rights laws (though the Viet Nam war was a huge mistake). And we were blessed with the humor of Molly Ivins.

I made the mistake of trying to watch the debates for Lt. governor the other night. In the Dallas Morning News someone suggested that we stop having these televised debates because it just makes the candidates look like idiots.

I disagree Texans get very few chances to actually see how idiotic their elected officials are. Or to hear from their own mouths that all 4 of them thought the judge who allowed Marlise Munoz to be taken off of life support was wrong. They are going to change the law and make it clear that a dead woman can be kept on life support in order to deliver a badly deformed fetus that will be a lifetime financial burden to the family. All the while making sure that medicare will not be available to them even though it was the state that forced the birth. It seems freedom only applies to men when you come from the Lone Star state.

One of the candidates had filed for bankruptcy but claimed that wasn't relevant any more and it was mean of people to bring it up. I guess I do not understand why a businessman should get away with stiffing his creditors when someone with student debt or medical debt can't do the same anymore?

And how many voters are aware that their politicians are double dipping, including the current governor by taking both a salary and their retirement pay. Wish I had the same privledge. Perhaps if these kinds of debates were required on a monthly basis we would actually get better governance and these weak candidates would be weeded out.

I won't hold my breath- after all this is the state that thinks it's legislators should be protected by making sure you pass through an x-ray machine in order to enter the building to see them but that it is a good idea for guns to be on all our college campuses in the hands of testosterone addled 18-22 year olds doing shots. Idiotic doesn't come close to describing what these guys are. Maybe brain dead is a better description.

PS- Interestingly, if you have a concealed handgun license you can bypass all the silly security at the capital and go right in. I can't wait until some terrorist figures this out, gets in, and shoots one of them. Wonder how they will react to that?