MOLLY IVINS
GOP in the heart of Texas:
Texas Ledge gets wacky
while top donors look on from 'owner's box'

Don't worry about a thing! The Texas Legislature is riding to the rescue. Oh, sure, we still have a $10 billion deficit, but the House just outlawed gay marriage. At last, we're safe from the hideous threat of gay marriage, which would have directly ruined our entire lives.
Meanwhile, the House has:

Eliminated 10,810 state jobs;

Cut 250,000 poor children off the Children's Health Insurance Program and about 365,000 from health insurance through Medicaid;

Cut prenatal care and delivery for 17,000 pregnant women and services for 366 women with breast and cervical cancer;

Closed one state school for the mentally retarded and one state mental hospital;

(This one's my favorite) Cut $22 million from a criminal justice program that provides medication and treatment for mentally impaired offenders who are out on probation or parole. (Isn't that nice? They'll be wandering around the state without their meds.)

"...laughing wild, Amid severest woe."
Shakespeare—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1

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