OK, let it be noted that Jane Nelson, Jim Keffer, and Dan Flynn, and the parents in their district, are apparently grit-sucking inbred freaks who enjoy watching women die. Good to know.

I haven't to my knowledge been in Flower Mound, Eastland, or Canton, but I'll be careful if I ever do, since the stupid and evil are allowed to walk the streets.

Puh-leez. Six grand? The milk people couldn't buy John Connally for ten grand and that was more than 30 years ago. I can't imagine Perry being influenced so cheaply.

I truly enjoyed reading the comments of Cathy Adams (Texas Eagle Forum), a long-time right-wing supporter of Governor Perry, who has now declared that he is being bought off by political contributors. Welcome to political reality, Cathy! And while I agree that his executive order may be a bit high-handed, I'm noticing that most of the opposition is coming from the Religious Right, people who apparently have a greater fear of sex than of cancer.

Yes, Greg, me, Flynn, Keffer and Jane Nelson are just like this - II - and our common bond is indeed that we are "inbred freaks" who like to "watch women die." Sometimes it's nice to set up lawn chairs together inside emergency rooms on the weekends just hoping to get lucky.

So yes, granted, everyone who disagrees with you is a first rate asshole - unworthy even to utter an opinion in your presence. But answer me this: Do you recognize no cost benefit analysis whatsoever? What if paying for this vaccine means the Lege must stop paying for HIV drugs because there's only so much money? Would you still be so pompous and holier than thou?

And to Dennis, I'm not part of the religious right and I think the way this was done sets a terrible public policy precedent that I don't support. But then, don't listen to me, I'm just a grit-sucking inbred freak. best,

Of course the Republicans wanted this to be debated and discussed. How noble of them. That's because they could kill it that way. And, then only insured people and parents with money could afford to protect their daughters from cervical cancer. What kills me is that some Democrats are whining about how it should have "gone through the process" and debated.

This is one fight we don't have to fight, so let's be grateful and move on.

@ muse, I ask you the same question I did Greg: "Do you recognize no cost benefit analysis whatsoever? What if paying for this vaccine means the Lege must stop paying for HIV drugs because there's only so much money?" Or what if it means CHIP funds can't be restored?

The legislative budget process provides a venue to make such prioritizing judgments when they come into conflict. This is a terrible precedent. If you grant Perry the power to spend hundreds of millions by executive order, I'll pretty much guarantee you won't like the content of the next several that come down the pike, but you'll have forfeited the right to claim the process should be more participatory. That's a mistake, IMO, no matter what party you're in.

Grits, do you believe that the Republicans who are objecting are doing so because of concerns about executive power, the budget, or the impact on other health care issues?

'Cause I don't. They're squawking about "hearing from parents", and that means vaccination-phobes (who are grit-sucking inbred morons who like watching children die) or people who've bought into the FRC line that the vaccine promotes sex (and are therefore anti-feminist credulous inbred morons who think that women should be punished for Eve's crime).

I'll grant you that doing this through an executive order raises questions about executive power, and there may be questions about budget and other health care priorities, but those are largely separate issues from whether or not kids should be vaccinated.

(As for where I stand on those issues: The executive should not have the power, and Texas needs to spend more, a lot more, a lot, lot more, on public health.)