More on the Texas Dems. This from a Wednesday evening report in The Quorum Report, a Texas political newsletter …
“I will be able to reveal more in a couple of days but for now I have to
protect my sources. What I can say is there has been a development that I
would describe as significant.”Bailey said he would likely be able to reveal more Friday. At his press
availability, Bailey disputed comments made yesterday by Gov. Perry¹s office
that their involvement in the DPS search was negligible.“My source in the DPS paints a very different picture,” Bailey said. “I was
told the DPS felt like they were puppets. That was their exact words. They
felt they were being manipulated throughout.”
Add to this the following fact: Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Dallas Fort Worth) is the Texas rep who sued the Department of Public Safety to prevent them from destroying any more records connected to the Dem manhunt. He is now being forced to reveal his sources at DPS. Burnam says the Texas AG “is apparently trying to find out who a whistle-blower is rather than stopping the illegal shredding of documents.”
And, finally, TNR has a very good lead editorial about the Texas shenanigans. Credit, lots of it, where credit is due.
The choice graf …
Why won’t this once scandal-obsessed city take what happened in Texas seriously? Sure, it involved neither sex nor money. But it involved something more serious: the blurring of the line between the power of the state and the partisan interests of those who run it–a line that represents the fundamental separation between a democracy and a dictatorship. When FBI files showed up in Bill Clinton’s White House, Republicans, with the help of the press, screamed with outrage, even though no evidence that they were used for any partisan purpose was ever uncovered. Yet, in this case, when we know that police powers were harnessed for partisan gain, the issue elicits laughs.
The inner rot laid bare.
