Texas atty general's Job 1 is not fighting crooks or protecting consumers, but suing Obama

[mike r]

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/texas-attorney-general-greg-abbott-opposes-federal-government-847623.html

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott opposes federal government on many fronts
Effort raises questions about politicking vs. lawyering.
By Chuck Lindell
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Early this year, Attorney General Greg Abbott asked a federal appeals court to toss out the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that greenhouse gases threaten the environment. He followed in March by adding Texas to a 20-state lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and then made a cable news splash by scolding Obama over his border policies after bullets fired from Mexico punched into the El Paso City Hall in June.

July was a busy month in Republican Abbott's growing opposition to Democratic-run Washington. The state's chief legal officer sued the EPA to preserve Texas' clean air regulations, joined a legal brief supporting Arizona's immigration law and opposed a pro-union measure championed by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The anti-Washington theme of Gov. Rick Perry's campaign may have captured more attention, but it has been Abbott's challenges that have put Texas in direct confrontation with Obama, Congress and Democratic priorities — and more of the same is likely.

"Texas' actions of suing and challenging the federal government will stop as soon as the federal government stops overreaching and violating the Constitution and laws," said Abbott, who accuses national Democrats of repeatedly limiting individual liberty and violating state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment.

Abbott's next step might be to challenge the Obama administration's latest moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. "We're concerned" about the drilling ban, which is not set to expire until Nov. 30, he said. "We're looking into it." Abbott's war on Washington has become the centerpiece of his re-election effort, right down to a campaign logo that features the unofficial symbol of the tea party movement — a coiled rattlesnake below the phrase "Don't tread on me," with the fang-brandishing serpent wrapped around the letter A...

[Hawkeye-X]

1. When is the idiot up for re-election

Hopefully Texas will throw the scumbag out to the streets along with Goodhair.

[w8liftinglady]

2. Please let Bill White win...and then fire these perry pricks.

[tammywammy]

3. He's elected to office.

Hopefully White does win, as well s Barbara Ann Radnofsky/

[w8liftinglady]

4. aw,hell...well,we are still waiting for Tom Delay's trial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay

[tammywammy]

5. Abbott's gonna be busy

Telling the federal govt we don't need their stinkin money for no education.