What Molly Ivins said
Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 01:07:31 AM PDT
I wish that Molly was still around so that she could have the pleasure of voting in this Democratic Primary. Contrary to Texas lore, dead folks probably haven't voted here since Lyndon Johnson's first run for the Senate, but I digress.
If Molly were still with us, there would be no doubt whatsoever for whom she would not vote. She stated her intentions clearly in an eerily prescient column published in January 2006.
In a piece entitled I will not support Hillary Clinton for president, she laid it all out for us. Meet me below for some choice excerpts.
"I don't give a rat's ass about the law." saith Tom Delay
Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 06:08:10 AM PDT
Money quote from 1990:
"Fuck the law," Delay snapped back. "I don't give a rat's ass about the law."
I know that Doug Thompson and Capitol Hill Blue are reviled by the powers here at DailyKos, wrongly IMHO. But surely you won't take exception to Thompson's first hand account of his 1990 encounter with DeLay. Read it with an open mind. It is chock full of good DeLay quotes.:
Tom DeLay thought he could screw the law but the law screwed back
Gretna City Council Passes Resolution
Fri Sep 16, 2005 at 07:31:17 AM PDT
Have the citizens of Gretna, Louisiana had second thoughts about their police chief's decision to block the bridge to fleeing New Orleans evacuees?
Apparently not. In fact, the Gretna City Council has passed a resolution in support of the chief's action.
"This wasn't just one man's decision," Mayor Ronnie C. Harris said Thursday. "The whole community backs it."
More after the jump.
Brief History of the Texas Textbook Wars - Part 1
Wed Feb 09, 2005 at 09:49:23 PM PDT
No history of the Texas Textbook Wars (hereafter TTW) would be complete without acknowledging the contributions of the late
Mel Gabler and his wife
Norma, the Godfather and Godmother of textbook censorship in Texas.
The Gablers began critiquing textbooks in 1961 after they took exception to the "quality" of their son's history and social science texts. They founded Educational Research Analysts, an official-sounding organization from which they waged their battles for the next 40+ years. The ERA's motto is "We review public school textbooks from a conservative, Christian perspective. We can show you what's wrong and how to fix it."
More after the jump.
