Gridlock Is Good
I know the Reps in the Texas Legislature don’t like it, but the effective shutdown of legislative business for the first 60 days (as intended by the Texas Constitution for non-emergency bills) can only be a good thing. They’ll have to pass the important bills in the remaining time to please their constituents, and won’t have time for much other monkey business. Texas is blessed with a wonderful Constitutional
limit on legislative mischief- every two years is often enough for politicians to get together. In other states, they can pass unpopular bills in a session right after an election and hope the public forgets- in Texas every session is a fishbowl, since they happen so infrequently…