Some sympathy for us Democrats in Texas, please

[Skittles]

Ten years. TEN F***ING YEARS WE HAVE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH THAT MORONIC PIECE OF SHIT. TEN YEARS. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[deadparrot]

1. You people deserve a medal or something.

A decade of Dubya?

I think I'd be fleeing to Canada or Europe...somewhere.

[derby378]

3. Flee, Hell!!

This is our state - * is an outsider from Connecticut!

BTW, what do you call someone from CT? A Connecticutianite?

[Snotcicles]

51. Double it from me, you got the shitbag Tom DeLay also.

Man whats going on down there?

[Skittles]

55. Don't ask me to explain this f***ing state

can't do it

[Snotcicles]

58. I'll only admit it to you

I gotta cousin there Shhhhhhh

[liveoaktx]

2. And when he LOSES, he'll be... BACK- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

[Skittles]

4. gawd I HATE it when they say SEND HIM BACK TO TEXAS

please, people, WE HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH. Can't we just stick him on an ISLAND somewhere????? :o

[coreystone]

11. Elba! The perfect island with a history to accomodate! :-) n/t

[Jacobin]

48. NO NO NO, NOT ELBA!!!!

Napoleon escaped from Elba!!!

Send him to St. Helena

http://www.royalmarinesregimental.co.uk/histctrad27.htm

[Lisa]

75. yeah, but Georgie's no Napoleon

10 years there, and he'd only just be realizing Elba was an island.

[txindy]

25. Painful, isn't it?!

We've gotta take one for the team, I guess. :shrug:

Naw, I'm kidding. SEND HIM TO CONNECTICUT!! Please!

[tanyev]

40. I don't want him back here either

but I am willing to take one for the team if we can keep him safely confined to the pig farm in Crawford once he comes back. At least we won't have to see him on the TV every single frickin' day.

:toast:

[GodHelpUsAll2]

61. I'll go one better

I will be willing to keep him in my guest room if it means he's out of Washington and out of politics!

Now you tell me, how damn commited to getting him out of the WH is that?

[tanyev]

63. LOL!

You win!

I regret that I have but one guest room to give for my country.

:D

[Morning Dew]

81. When he loses, he'll shed that Texan pretense fast

and head for Kennebunkport.

[WolverineDG]

66. Island?

hell no. i would say "spandau," but that was torn down, so i'll settle for sending shrubbie to abu gharib.

dg

[booksenkatz]

5. My folks are south of Foat Wuth

which is one of the reddest areas. My daddy proudly displays Kerry stickers and yard signs, though, and he enthusiastically starts up conversations about politics everywhere he goes, just to piss em off. He was thrown out of a feed store last month, and he just laughed all the way out!

The worst part of being in Tx, even visiting, is how everything in Houston and Dallas is named GEORGE BUSH something-or-other. I refuse to visit my brother up in Plano because I have to get on Bush Tollway or whatever the hell it is. I make him come visit me down at my parents' house. Yes, the Bushes have left a lasting "legacy" on my beloved home state in more ways than one! Will it ever be cleansed????
:puke:

[Skittles]

6. honey

I live in Plano and have managed to never ONCE drive on that piece of shit George Bush Highway. YES INDEED!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. It used to be the coolest place on the planet.

What the fsck happened down there?!!?

[anarchy1999]

15. How long have you been away. "Coolest place on the Planet?" You've

quite simply got to be kidding. Unless you are talking about 20 years ago.

[RaleighNCDUer]

38. I'm sorry, but isn't that the state that pioneered the '20 year sentence

for a joint' drug laws? When I was a kid (well, in my 20s) I traveled all over this country, lived in six states, visited 32 others -- and never dared venture into TX. Too many horror stories.

Obviously, an outsider's POV.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. Correction:

PRESIDENT George Bush Highway. They felt the need to point that out. When I visited my niece in Carrollton a year ago I saw that highway sign and thought it was odd that they included the "president" part. I feel sorry for you people in the Dallas area. The only things named after the first Bush is one of the airports and some elementary school is named after Barbra Bush. Unless there is more that I don't know of.

[Lisa]

74. Drive all over George Bush for me, then!

At least you guys didn't get stuck with the "George Bush Center for Intelligence" (in Virginia, I think.)

[Bok_Tukalo]

21. I live in Bedford and drive the Bush every day

from 183 to 635 allowing me to avoid the Grapevine mess.

I mean really, 30 minutes is 30 minutes after all.

[tanyev]

43. I always call it Highway 190.

Makes it a little easier.

[TEXASYANKEE]

53. I'm with you!

It's a real convenient way to get from Rowlett to ... well, just about anywhere west and north/south. But I always call it "190" and correct anyone who calls it PGWB Tollway. Surely there were REAL Texans more deserving of having a road named after them?? What did 41 ever do for north Texas?

[anarchy1999]

64. I call it the Chimpy Expressway

I have to venture on it for about 200 feet every morning from 75-Jupiter...

don't pay a dime though :)

[Still_Notafraid]

86. I lived in Plano to!

They have everything there,but Traffic is bad in Dallas,I am so glad to be back in Louisville.What is up with all those walls,who are they trying to keep out? every neighborhood or apartment building has a wall or gate.

Nice city though just not my cup of tea.

[tanyev]

92. Yeah, the walls are freaky.

It's been standard building code for I don't know how long, but I recently read an article about how they are becoming a maintenance problem. Some of the older ones are in need of repair and the homeowner's associations are not happy about having to pay for something that's there only because the City of Plano required it. City of Plano doesn't want to pay for repairs, either. Seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess.

[glitch]

8. Ew - under those conditions I might become agoraphobic.

You guys have our sympathies. With any luck they won't be imprisoned in Texas. You've suffered enough.

Perhaps we can reactivate Alcatraz. Just for traitors.

[Trailrider1951]

20. Heheheh, Quote:

"The worst part of being in Tx, even visiting, is how everything in Houston and Dallas is named GEORGE BUSH something-or-other."

Yeah, there's a George Bush park on the west side of Houston. I take my dog there and he sometimes leaves a "gift" for *.
:evilgrin:

[oneighty]

7. And my heart cries for

you, dies for you; and so on. ((((((((hug)))))))))

180

Sigh!

[Skittles]

10. MY SWEET ED

:*

[RoyalWickedness]

12. I used to live in Houston,

moved back to MI right before W became Governor. Most fortuitous timing. All sympathies to you and yours.

[Melodybe]

14. You have my sympathy, 10 years of that asshole is enough to make anyone

implode.

Good on you for dealing.

:kick: for Texas dems!

[Forkboy]

16. No way

You Texans...you're lucky I don't come down there and kick your ass!!!

:P

[Skittles]

29. I've never considered myself a Texan

even though I've been here almost 30 years

[spatlese]

17. Try living in College Station, TX

Home of the George Bush Presidential Library, and we have a George Bush Drive... and you see people walking around with "Ags for Bush" shirts on with big cowboy hats... DRIVES ME NUTS!! :mad:

[faithnotgreed]

22. hi spatlese! were glad to welcome you to a place you can vent

dont imagine those aggies for bush are too keen on talking politics with you!

[spatlese]

24. Thank you!

I am really glad to have found this website to vent... :)

The weird thing is that the students at A&M are more likely to vote *, but I have met a lot of other people (non-students) who are more than happy to listen to me go on about what a horrible job * is doing!

I am also conducting a little poll re: where W will have his 'pResidential library'... what do you all think?

[txindy]

27. Welllll, most like it will be in Aggieland

UT rejected Junior once back when he applied to Law School, so that dog won't hunt. Maybe SMU? Texas Tech? My hunch says A&M, but with Junior's jealousy of Poppy, that may not work out too well. Unless his is bigger. **snort**

God knows Yale and Harvard won't have him!

[spatlese]

32. Texas State University

Most of the people I asked think he should have his library at TSU (formerly known as Southwest Texas State University) coz of its reputation as 'wild, party school' here.

We certainly do not need two bush libraries here in Aggieland! :puke:

[Ilsa]

33. Why not Wacko TX?

I bet Shrub's Baptist friends invite him to put it there, right on the side of I-35, where we can all flip it off on our trips to Dallas.

[txindy]

34. Baylor, hmmm? That could actually happen.

Not that I'd ever visit, though. **shudder** Bleah!

[carpetbagger]

72. I think it will be in Baylor.

That way, you can have a "Highway of Horrors" tour through McLennan County, starting with a guided tour of David Koresh's ranch, then the Free Enterprise Institute (part of the Dr. Pepper Museum), the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, and then on to the W museum, and out to the pig farm to watch the sunset.

[AspenRose]

37. Laura went to SMU, so my money would bet there

LBJ's library is at UT and Poppy's is at A&M. Running out of places.

[txindy]

42. Rice, I hope, is too smart to have him.

There's TCU, although I think Texas Tech more likely. It won't go there, though, too far out of the way.

SMU is my bet. I do think A&M will make a push for it simply because they'd have two presidential libraries to UT's one. Since LBJ is worth 10 of each *, they're delusional. ;) I seriously doubt the Longhorns will have him. LBJ and *? No way. It'll be SMU and Junior will ditch Crawford and move to Dallas to oversee his library. As if he'd stay in Crawford, anyway. Ha! Not when the minions stop coming to see him out there. Dallas or Houston is my bet. Dallas if SMU builds the library.

[Beausoleil]

56. It might be Rice

They do have the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

I'm glad I'm in San Antonio. Can't imagine any * library here!

I also refuse to travel 190 when I'm up in Dallas.

[bobbieinok]

80. as a Rice alum I vote NO..NO

There's a Brown college (Rice speak for dorm), from the Brown family of Brown and Root, now part of Halliburton.

When I was a student there years ago, students from TX said there was a lot of B and R construction on campus that was questionable.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

57. Noooo.... Not Tech !

Please not my school. 'Sides, when the wind comes from the south it'll mingle with the feedlots and the stink will be AWFUL !!

[txindy]

59. HA! I think you're safe

Junior has too big of an ego to put his library in any school that is not inside, or very close, to a major metropolitan area. That's not a knock on the Red Raiders (unless they're playing the Longhorns! ;) ), it's just a geographic problem. I think * will up and leave Crawford for Dallas or Houston the very first chance he gets, so I'm betting his library will be in one of those cities. Which means, I think you're safe. :toast: Besides, Junior and Bobby Knight on the same campus? The mind reels! :wow:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

62. SMU would be "perfect" for shrubya library:

Dallas area, school with spoiled Texan fratboy types, often from families with money.

[Ilsa]

46. Is there room on or near campus at SMU?

I'm thinking that area is pretty tight for land, but I could be wrong.

[mrbill]

87. if there is no room at smu, they will make room......

Think this is already happening.

SMU has been trying to buy up the neighborhood to the east of the campus, north of Mockingbird and west of Central.

The emminent domain word has been used.

Then there's the old Mrs. Baird's site.

Lots of asshat's largest political contributers live only a few blocks away in Highland Park. They could visit often.

Poor Dallasites might some day have to drive past the Chimpy Library overlooking the expressway. That would be tres irritating.

[RaleighNCDUer]

41. I expect he'll have it real close to Crawford --

Gotta do something with the pigfarm once he's not expected to clear brush anymore.

[AspenRose]

44. If it's proximity to Crawford they want, then Baylor is the obvious choice

Sic' em bears, feh. *yawn*

DR, anxiously awaiting her turn at some Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla when she goes home to visit in November! :-)

[spatlese]

52. Baylor?

I would think they would HATE him and his stem cell research stance... *Shrug*

maybe he will try and take over the book repository in Dallas..

"what do you mean I can't have my library at the Texas book repository??!!!"

[illuminaughty]

89. If we're lucky

All documents pertaining to * and his presidency will be in the Hague.

[Skittles]

26. I will never forget my only visit to College Station

a boyfriend and I stopped by to visit his ex-wife (I kid you not) - anyways, during the visit she started talking about how the neighborhood had a petition going to "keep Jews out". OMG I started laughing it was so utterly ridiculous. I thought she was kidding.

[Mikimouse]

91. Hey Spatlese!

Welcome to DU! You'll find that there are a number of Ags here, but we're of the liberal ilk. PM me and we'll talk about my favorite college town (LOL!):hi:

[spatlese]

93. Hi Mikimouse

I am unable to send you a private message... :( not enough posts!

[anarchy1999]

18. We don't just have Bush I and II to deal with, we have DELAY, we have

Good Hair Perry, we have Kay Bailey and Cornyn, all rolled into on great big ball of s#$#! And please let us not forget the honorable Senator Phil Graham and his wife. They've all done more for the state of Texas and this nation than we'll ever be privileged to know.

End sarcasm now, for those of you not understanding.

[CatWoman]

19. You know

I heard that Skittles gal on DU was unpatriotic!! :D

[Forkboy]

23. aw hell

everybody take cover!!!!!!!

[Skittles]

28. can you believe those assholes

un-freaking-real

[Bunny]

30. Some of my favorite DUers are Texans!

That which doesn't kill you will make you stronger. Or so they say. Hang in there, it will be over soon!

[Ilsa]

31. Yeah, I was explaining this to some freeper-types on another

message board. They couldn't understand why I dislike * so much, and I had to say that they would also if they'd been putting up with his bullshit for ten f$#@king years. I told them I AM TIRED of Shrub, I'm tired of his family, and I wish they'd all move back to CT (or a third world).

My friends in CS have my sympathy. We visit up there occasionally. My husband visits the Tex-Ags forum frequently also. One time, after a home game, one aggie-freeper-type was mouthing off about how he had harassed a K/E supporter in the parking lot outside the game. Even the GOP'ers on the forum told him to shut the f@#k up.

[AspenRose]

35. Now Skittles, remember your proud Texas Democratic heritage

Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland, Lloyd Bensen, Kathy Whitmire, Henry B. Gonzalez, Albert Bustamante, Ann Richards, Jim Hightower, John Sharp, Henry Cisneros....

Take a deep breath, honey, and remember. :-) Maybe if you're lucky the cretin will go back to Connecticut.

DR, Texas A&M Class of 1990 and San Antonio high school alumna

[Skittles]

36. I was on an elevator with Bob Bullock once

he overheard me telling a coworker IF SOMEONE PUT A GUN TO MY HEAD AND TOLD ME TO VOTE REPUBLICAN I WOULD STILL HAVE TO THINKG ABOUT IT. He and his aides laughed their asses off. :D

[AspenRose]

47. Aw, Bob Bullock, RIP

Another good egg

Funny story, too!

[lastliberalintexas]

49. One of whom was likely my cousin

A cousin of mine was Bullock's administrator for quite a while, but finally got tired of him near the end when he started getting too cozy with the repubs. Bullock was a fine man at one time, but when the conservatives tried to serve him up on a silver platter for his support for a state income tax, he became a hollow man. He never was the same after that.

[liberalitch]

39. One word on * return to the lone star....

corsica....
think about it.

[Bucky]

45. Also live in Texas. Makes me the "front line troops" in war for democracy.

I'm glad to serve a great cause, even if I get my ass kicked every two years. We shall overcome, eventually.

[Snotcicles]

54. Give them hell Bucky

[lastliberalintexas]

50. November 8, 1994

That was such an awful year for so many of our guys. We lost Ann Richards, Jack Brooks and numerous local officials on that day. We nearly lost Charlie Wilson, Charlie Stenholm and a few other Congresscritters too.

It's been a long ten years.

[anarchy1999]

60. Look at all this passion from Texans, And the DNC decided for some

reason we were not a state worth fighting for? Boggles the mind, doesn't it? What better state to make a fight than Texas. The Dems missed their chance. I still will always ask why?

[Texasgal]

65. That bastard ISN'T from Texas!

True Texans don't claim that carpet bagger!

[Skittles]

67. I never said that asshat was from Texas

I said we in Texas have put up with him longer than others

[Texasgal]

69. True...I guess I am just reacting

To OBVIOUS ties to Texas.... That BASTARD!

[PassingFair]

79. Awww Skittles,

I hadn't realized that you were in TX. So sorry!
BUT, I was never so proud of Americans as I was of those Texas Dems riding off to try and avert the redistricting of your state. Man, that showed guts.
I am supremely disappointed that DeLay's misuse of "Homeland" security to try to track them down hasn't been accorded the attention, and indictments, that it so richly deserves.
Oh well, there's always next year to roast those rats.

Good luck to you AND Richard Morrison on Nov. 2.

[muchacho]

68. I feel for you

That's why I moved to New York City.

[Boomer]

70. Yup, me too

I was born in Texas, raised in Texas and got the hell out just as soon as I could get a grad school TAship in another state. I've never regretted leaving.

[TexasSissy]

71. ME, TOO, SKITTLES! ME, TOO!

Arghhhhh! It boggles my mind why people keep voting for that buffoon.

[roguevalley]

73. come stay at my house, sugar. I'll make you a samwich. :)

[Blue_Roses]

76. I know what ya mean

I lived there for 10 years and moved a year ago to Arknasas--Clinton's state:D Still have the rednecks and fundies, but doesn't seem quite as bad. At least the US Senators are Democrats:D

Still, though I can't get over how Prestonwood Baptist Church manages to tout "hail Bush" from the pulpit. Had a friend who visited and she got up and left. They don't hide it either.

[JPace]

77. There..there...poor baby....

I know you have suffered long and deep. Wish
there was something we could do for you. I
used to live in Midland Tex, when I was young,
didn't like it much and cannot imagine having
to live there and have the bush's everywhere
one looks and all the bush worshipers that
have been brainwashed into a hypnotic state
that keeps them blissfully ignorant as their
asses are being devoured by big business.
Very depressing indeed!

I think the only real hope is re-education and
persuasion by the left, something they ignored
for too many years until the repug borg slowly
crept up and assimilated the biggest part of
Texas (and America). Our best hope is Air America
and hopefully a television network in the future.

Hang in there....it takes time to persuade people
to "come into the light".

[Hippo_Tron]

78. You guys have Tom DeLay also

We have some slime here in Louisiana as well, but luckilly for us, usually they don't get elected.

[Skittles]

83. ya, thanks for the reminder Hippo

'preciate that. :o

[Comadreja]

82. I fled to WA

After my divorce I began to take note of Texas politics. I left for WA state and never looked back. If I were still there I would do something every day, as I do here, to defeat Bush. I also hted the religious fundamentalism.

Israeli settler, encouraged by Texans G.W. Bush and Tom DeLay, becomes an uber-asshole.

[charlie]

84. I'm overseas

Texas is my home of record. When I got my absentee registration, I spent a long time considering my choices -- return it to the post office or take a nice day at the beach, flicking pieces of it into the ocean. Same outcome, either way. Wouldn't bother me a bit if I never set foot in that state again.

[anarchy1999]

85. Please. We deserve no sympathy. We all went to sleep and let it happen.

The first step in taking it back is to remove DELAY! Then and only then will we be able to start to make our voices be heard. Another on is Joe Barton (Smokey Joe), along with Marchant and many others. We have only ourselves to blame and the DNC who decided Texas was a throw away state. F them all.

[illuminaughty]

88. LMAO Help might be on the way

My niece married someone from East Texas...near Corrigan. If you've heard Boomhower (sp?) talk from "King of the Hill" well, there ya go. That's my nephew-in-law. I cried at the wedding all right.

Anyway, I have listened to their bullshit about what asswipe did for the state of Texas blah, blah, blah..for teeeeeennnnnnnnn yyyyeeeeaaaaaarrsssssssss! And it got to the point where I just avoided politics or any other intellectual subject for that matter.

They came to visit this summer. After I finally deciphered what my niece's husband was saying (it takes some effort) my jaw dropped.
Basically, it was "that Bush plays everybody like he's playing poker. Here's Saddam Hussein's kids. Vote for me. Lemme see. I'll raise ya with a Saddam capture and throw in Osama before the election. Vote for me." Wow! Since you live in Texas I'm sure you know what kind of person I'm talking about. And he now hates, I mean hates Bush. He's a plant worker and his co-workers hate Bush. This gave me hope. These are gun toting, crimson red neck mo-fos.

But, hey, I still feel your pain. C'mon Texas. Go blue!!

[Bridget Burke]

90. Good news on KHOU-TV this morning (CBS in Houston)

They reported from Sugarland--Tom Delay's district. He's still got "an edge" over his Democratic Challenger, Morrison. But he's having to make an effort this year. Thirty percent of the voters are new--roped in by the redistricting maneuver & not too happy about it.

And a few lawns were shown with an interesting combination of signs--Bush/Cheney & Morrison for Congress.

The Astros made it to the playoffs. Miracles can happen.