Texas Spared Further Legislative "Help" As Session Collapses

• Tom Craddick avoids the fate he so richly deserves. "Bwah hah hahah! You fools! I am now more powerful than ever!" Speaker cackles from his Throne of Skulls while attended by his army of flying monkeys.
• The Dewhurst Voter Suppression Act of 1960 is dead. At least for now...
• Just in case there was any doubt, Arlene Wohlgemuth's herculean efforts to make Texas even more repressive, mean-spirited and gratuitously cruel to children and the poor has succeeded admirably. And the CHIPs cutbacks are really cutting close to home.
• At least it's over...