Lyndon Baines Johnson

Dale Gribble creating an online footprint? Yeah, right. -OS

As we said, there was no way the reboot wouldn't suck. -OS

Eh.... -OS

If you're wondering why this account takes such a hard partisan stance against Texas A&M, here's why. -OS

Our followers are all Houston/San Antonio/Austin based Coogs or Longhorn fans... oh, right, because we mercilessly rip on the two worst things in Texas -- DFW and Aggie. -OS

We look forward to college football season... otherwise known in these parts as "Getting Unfollowed by Aggies who Followed us in June" Season. -OS

God we love the Sun Bowl. -OS

Actually, as the first talk of college football begins, we've done you the service of updating our guide to Texas college football, who you are allowed to root for, and whom you're obligated to root against. -OS

Dream of the day when the news is "nothing of note happened in Texas today. It is a boring competently managed state where little of note ever happens." -OS

Some of the shit their saying about the quorum break... I don't know man.... "we gon' find them Demy-crats, hand cuff 'em, and then give them sensual massages..." -OS

The Texas GOP is always playing jumprope with the line between being the world's most homophobic or the world's gayest organization. -OS

[We redacted this message from the president because of its highly offensive nature that breaks Blue Sky's terms of service] -OS

It tells you something fairly profound about the nouveau riche of the Texas suburbs. These people are slaves to a cause that unquestionably is against their own material interests, but they've been fed so much bullshit by their church, the "news," and their friends that they're noseblind to it. -OS

It's difficult to find a pressure point on Texas Republicans that will actually work because these are the people who watched the Guadalupe wash their own children into the Gulf and turned their palms toward the skies. "Welp. Shit happens."

Slim to none. Kids have school in three weeks.

Theoretically yes. Practically, no. A Texas lege member makes about $45K per two year term. They have other jobs and obligations that can't be avoided forever. -OS

Quorum breaks have been a tactic in Texas Politics since 1870, but they've only ever really been symbolic gestures. They've almost never succeeded in stopping legislation because of the Governor's power to call special sessions without limit. -OS

Republicans never pay a price. Flood relief to victims is on the back burner or probably dead because Trump called Abbott and said he wanted 5 districts, and Abbott asked if Trump wanted his dick shined and his balls rubbed too.

The deadline, such as there is one would be November. Need districts to be drawn before filing for primaries begins. But in a pinch, the lege could schedule a new primary for districts redrawn after November. This was done in 1996.

They want those five seats. Even with the quorum break, Abbott will call session after session until they get them.

Guys, its been 125 years, what have you got?

Uh... how about union busting, protectionism and weird money policy? Don't stray from the hits. -OS

We think the Trump era has really brought into relief that the Republican Party still is and always was at its core a 19th Century Party that hasn't had a new idea since the New Deal. -OS

Especially in the 70s and 80s the conservative movement maintained two separate worlds -- the guys in suits at the Heritage Foundation who believed they were just coming up with new ideas and the guys at the Bircher lodge doing insane shit. Living in denial that they drew from the same well. -OS

Which is why the response to New Deal Liberalism has always been to brand it as socialism or something crazy that eats at the fabric of the family or whatever other horseshit, because all Liberalism actually does is say "we like capitalism, but let's mitigate the risks we can control." -OS

US Conservatism as we understand it, did not exist before the New Deal. And so it is a rejection of all the New Deal accomplished -- life with less day-to-day risk. Procedures put in place to help people deal with joblessness, failing health, etc. Opposing this has never been a sane project. -OS

Always. William F. Buckley's National Review was a just padded walls in print. -OS

Because the economy in the 1980s? Still not great. -OS

Writ large, the economic problems of the 1970s were rooted in the collapse of an out-of-date and non-competitive manufacturing sector about 2 decades ahead of the maturation of a information/service economy. -OS

The fucking Pinto is still a cultural touchstone synonymous with the crappy state of American engineering and manufacturing in the 1970s. -OS

Blaming the stagflation on the Great Society is just galaxy-brained nonsense. The Great Society didn't create high energy prices. It didn't rebuild Japanese and German manufacturing which was leaner, meaner, and more modern than bloated American companies. -OS