--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The TX legislature? Bunch of local-shmocal
> part-timers. W's going to find
> the challenge of wrestling with the U.S. Congress is
> a whole different order
> of magnitude.
>
> Carl
>
I think you underestimate the Texas Lege. The part time nature (less than 10K annual stipend) has led to Texas having one of the best educated and least corrupt legislatures in the country: a plethora of Lawyers getting paid by firms with lobbying practices, or partners in development companies. With your salary coming legally and directly from these honest and populist institutions, why would anyone take a bribe?
It has been said that few poor people come into the Texas Lege, but no poor people LEAVE it. And we know that poor people are too stupid to run a democracy. After all, if they weren't stupid, they would be rich enough to afford to serve in the lege. (Any who doubt me haven't read enough Raynd)
Thanks to our honest and intelligent legislature, I, and other Texans, can gaze happily at the haze-shrouded skylines of Dallas and Houston and KNOW that the legislature is working hard to ensure that Texas has the best environment for business.
However, your point about DC being different is well taken. I can't see Bush being able to work well with a congress so obviously controlled by business interests.
Adam
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