It’s time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance‘s weekly blog round-up–the pre-Convention edition. Don’t forget about the Third Biennial Texas Blogger’s Caucus set for this Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Cedar Door in Austin. Joe Jaworski, Sherrie Matula, Melissa Noriega, and more will be joining us! Click on for the highlights.
WCNews at Eye On Williamson posts on A Texas Myth: The Citizen Legislator.
BossKitty at BlueBloggin points out that Bush has been successful in preventing accountability and that Bush is at Center of an Intelligence Leak in The Leaky Bush – Probable Cause For Treason.
Captain Kroc declares that McBlogger now has a patron saint. That means we’re protected so don’t mess with us or we’ll have our BFF, God, gut punch you.
PDiddie at Brains and Eggs had some questions for Boyd Richie.
Vince from Capitol Annex reviews the Texas Legislative Study Group’s excellent recommendations concerning what the Texas Legislature needs to do to improve higher education.
North Texas Liberal thanks Michelle Malkin for letting us know why we should boycott Rachael Ray, the terrorist scarf-wearing daytime chef.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme crowns Victoria DA Steve Tyler the new DA Hissy Fit after the grand jury indicts the Victoria Police Chief and former City Attorney. Both may have used the Victoria Advocate newspaper to prod the child rape investigation of Tyler’s chief of staff.
WhosPlayin? takes a humorous look at how Rep Michael Burgess (R, TX-26) missed the mark again with recent comments, showing how out of touch he is with his middle-class constituents.
The burning question at Doing My Part For The Left is will Republicans return Rev, Hagee’s hate money.
Off the Kuff completes his early tour of the Harris County races with a peek at the race for Harris County Department of Education Trustee, which in a normal year would be a pretty low-profile affair. Of course, as we know, this is anything but a normal year.
The Texas Cloverleaf tells us how Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples wants to support the communist Cuban regime.
Texas Kaos gets into the nuts and bolts of coming events. If you’re headed to Austin for the Texas Democratic State Convention this week, check out this Netroots Nation convention in Austin we’re preparing for a great service event, Netroots for the Troops to prepare care packages for those who are putting themselves into harms way as our nation has asked them to do.