I'm wish Molly Ivins was alive. Watching Rick "Good Hair" Perry on TDS tonight

[XOKCowboy]

would have made for a good column tomorrow. I sure miss that lady.

[Suich]

1. Yeah, me, too! n/t

[hayu_lol]

2. She was an expert at using ridicule and satire...

to put her state's politics into a national spotlight.

She is missed.

[TexasObserver]

3. Enjoy a column she wrote ...

Molly Ivins January 14
http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/molly-ivins-january-14.html

AUSTIN, Texas — Whee, here we go, the Ledge is back in session! And many a village is missing its idiot. The 78th biennial disaster is upon us, and what glorious fodder to feast upon.

Our peerless leaders are faced with a $9.9 billion deficit, almost twice as high as previously estimated, and billions in mandatory increased spending, so the new Republican majority is busily planning to solve this crisis by: (A) outlawing same-sex marriage, (B) giving more legal protection to fetuses and (C) knocking gay Texans out from under coverage by the Hate Crimes Act. This is tremendously useful of them.

Gov. Goodhair Perry has already earned himself a new nickname after a stunning interview with the Austin American-Statesman in which he noted that Texas has two very serious problems that he, Rick the Reluctant, plans to do exactly nothing about. "Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that Texas is burdened by an outdated, out-of-whack tax system and a public education finance system that has to go," reported the paper. "But the state's top elected leader also said Texans shouldn't expect the upcoming legislature to do anything about either. Perry said tacking the dense issues is too much to ask of new leaders."

That's leadership! The new "leadership team" of Rick the Reluctant, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Speaker-elect Tom Craddick has a combined total of 56 years in state office, with Dewhurst the baby after a mere four years in statewide office. Damn, I hate when neophytes take over. Funny, none of them ran on not being ready for the job.

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[XOKCowboy]

4. That first sentence is why I (and many others) loved her and her columns...

Thanks! :toast:

[Suich]

5. I would have liked to watch TDS with

Anne Richards, then read Molly Ivins' column tomorrow!

:hi:

[XOKCowboy]

6. One of my prized possessions is a fan with Ann Richards smiling face on it

She gave them out at her Town Halls. A friend of mine in Austin sent it to me after she died because he knew I was such a "fan". :)



Ann and Molly were two very strong, smart, opinionated and funny women. No wonder they were lifelong and diehard Democrats. We could use more like them today.

[Bluebear]

7. She is imitated but can never be replaced. nt

[tavalon]

8. Me too, but she earned her rest

I like to imagine her and Ann Richards hanging out in the hereafter, slinging back the drinks and hooting over Guvna Goodhair. There ain't many as blatantly foolish as that man, nor as much fun to mock.

[wolfgirl]

9. Perry was pretty dang smarmy...

Ann would have thrashed him!