Oh, Danny Boy, the Pipes

Our Governor here in Texas has taken up the cause of halting the invasion of the State of Texas and by extension an invasion of the “Nation.” This isn’t typical courage from our Governor as he usually walks the moderate line with the best of them. He’s got the political war chest of money to prove it, too. But you take what you can get, even if you have to rely on a former political weakling who could turn around again. But, maybe not.

We also have a Lt. Governor (in Texas, the strongest politician due to our constitutional structure) who goes by the name of Dan Patrick. He came to Texas many years ago from Maryland after (for his own reasons) changing his name from Dannie Scott Goeb.

But Dannie or Dan or whatever is the guy to keep an eye on. He came into elected office as a conservative, acting day by day as a supporter of most of his (he had bought the station) talk show hosts (Limbaugh et al) and he did, indeed, sound off on most of the conservative messages ay-by-day.

But, Patrick is a Republican politician, which means someone who can be trusted about as much as a Democrat politician.

The other day after Nikki Haley had become “newsy” for a brief moment (blind sow finding an acorn?) when she mentioned that the “Civil War” was not “about slavery” Patrick was approached about the comment from a reporter. His (paraphrased) words were to the effect that she was absurd. “The war was about slavery.”

The truth is Patrick probably doesn’t know what WWII was about. But his mindset at the moment is pure Republican. Probably so is the Governor’s.

Texas is a great place with a great history. But its contemporary politicians pretty much stink. But take particular care of Danny Boy. He will flip like a flop in a second.

​As to the Governor’s current stance on the Feds wanting our barbed wire. I agree with those old fellows at Gonzalez about 200 years ago. “Come and take it.”