Friday, October 2, 2009

Democrat State Senator Eliot Shapleigh on Grover's tub...

If you are on the opposite side of Eliot Shapleigh, the annoying lib from El Paso... you are probably doing something right (link). Excerpt follows...

How did our challenges get so big? What happened to our great state? Grover happened. Coincidently, 25 years ago, Rick Perry first entered the Texas House to deliver Grover Norquist’s philosophy to Texas. Then and there, he and his band of Pit Bulls put Texas on a path to Grover's Tub—his legacy project of cutting taxes for the wealthy, creating a structural deficit to cut essential programs like schools and making government work only for a select few.

Now, after a quarter century of government by Grover, Texas is in Grover's Tub. When leaders value tax cuts over good schools, budget cuts over our future, and de—regulation over common sense, we lose.

Grover's tub is the path to success, which is why Grover is out there campaigning for Rick along with Michael Q. Sullivan, who is not coincidentally often called the Texas Grover Norquist. Rick doesn't want to drown government in a bathtub, but he has signed two budgets shrinking spending...

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