Texas lege

Texas has changed in many ways in the past thirty years, as the population has grown and grown, but some things haven’t changed at all. Such as the Legislature’s flaunting of its own rules, particularly on voting for bills and amendments. Lawmakers supposedly are forbidden to push the buttons of the voting machines for their absent colleagues, but they certainly do, as shown rather comically in this good video report from KEYETV Austin that’s making the angry-taxpayer email-forwarding rounds. What’s rules for thee and me ain’t no rules at all for them. Thank goodness they only meet every two years. Better would be every four years. Best of all would be never.