Try harder

3/9/24:

An update is needed to clarify a point made in the section below on Texas' primary results. I edited the point and underlined it so it can be more easily referenced.

Quite a few legislators lost their seats, and several were forced into run-offs, included the Speaker of the Texas House. The Speaker may well lose the run-off, as an anti-tax candidate divided the vote. Since anti-taxers are more conservative in general, the Speaker is in trouble, I'd say.

A leader in the Anti-Paxton faction didn't run for re-election. A number of others didn't run. I'd say there was a lot of fall-out from the move to oust Paxton. It's too early to say at this point in my research, but I'd say that there was a stiff negative reaction to the Bushie faction that was behind the impeachment.

The article that says otherwise might be more than a little off, indeed.

House Speaker Dade Phelan took a risk on Paxton’s impeachment. It may end his career. https://t.co/MzHt9Mq2XR via @TexasTribune

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 9, 2024

the original post of 3/7/24 follows directly below:

The issues in this coming election need to be pushed a bit harder. Example: There was a vote on deporting illegal aliens who commit crimes, and it had a scandalously high number of Democrats who refused to vote for it. It's not going to be enough to point that out. There needs to be some pain being administered to those who refuse to honestly deal with issues such as these. The bill was named for someone who was killed by an illegal alien. Could a more appropriate name for the bill have been chosen? It should be a no-brainer that the kind of people who would do this should not be allowed to stay in this country. But it looks like the Democrats just don't care. Drawing attention to this may not be enough.

Perhaps the bill being named for someone nobody heard of was the problem? What people need to know should be in the name of the bill, and it needs to be brought to the public's attention again and again in order to showcase the Democrat's callous attitude towards those who fall victim to illegal aliens who commit crimes. It may not be politically correct to call them illegal aliens, but what's worse? Defending people who kill innocent people, or ruffling a few feathers of people who really need to feel some heat?

There seems to be a lot of just going through the motions. In Texas, more than half of those who voted to impeach Paxton won their primaries. Or was that more than half of the GOP legislators? Come to think of it, maybe that article was bit off. Of course the Democrats would vote for the impeachment, but what about Republicans? Anyway, I'm running with the thought. The Speaker was forced into a run-off, and one of the chief supporters of the impeachment did not run in this election. Perhaps the voters got a bit too lax, or was the article a bit misleading?

I could look it up, but my internet is limited for the time-being. Yep, excuses.

The idea for the post is that all these people who say we are on the wrong track need to get busy. It's not good enough to just complain. If there's good news, don't just rest on your laurels.

The overall impression given by these developments seems to show a population that is indifferent to things that just should not be. Has the public gotten that indifferent and callous? If so, then how do the Democrats get to play up events like school shootings?

The GOP could try tactics like that too, you know. But do they do that enough? The GOP cannot afford to lose this election. Perhaps we all should try just a bit harder.