August 26, 2014      5:21 PM
Bearse: Bra burners
From the right: QR's conservative columnist argues that some in the Texas press corps are twisting themselves into pretzels to make the case that Perry's indictment is more serious than it really is
Have you
tried driving on Congress Avenue in
downtown Austin lately? No longer can you travel in the right lane, because
that’s for buses and bikers. In the left lane, proceed at your own risk. If you
get stuck behind a left turner, good luck getting back into the middle lane,
because we have now jammed 80 percent of the traffic into that one middle lane.
For those turning right, you have to dart over to the right lane in last-minute
fashion instead of doing it with the flow of traffic blocks earlier – all so
buses and bikers get their own lane.
This is what
happens when we elect social engineers. A generation ago, they were burning
bras. Now they are banning bags. And if they could ban the combustible engine
they would do that too. I am just hoping that the forces behind the city’s
Prop 1 don’t defeat the statewide Prop 1 due to voter
confusion about which one was put on the ballot by the nanny state caliphate.
Remember
when the Ron Paulites came up with the idea of
Paulville, where like-minded libertarians could live
together in Hudspeth County? I think we ought to do the same with the Austin
City Council. Put it on TV and call it, “Survivor: Goofy Edition.” Let
them experiment with their social engineering schemes without hurting the rest
of us. They can have their own trolley line, buses ¼ full, and bike lanes known
also as car lanes. I am willing to give them Native American
reservation status, so they can assemble peacefully and smoke peyote without
the cops touching them. Let them legalize pot, and give out tax credits for soy
milk and vegan products. They can even form their own unarmed police force.
We have not
only elected a generation of hippies, but their children who grew up in the
hippie commune. And apparently we sent a bunch of them to journalism school
too.
I can only
laugh at some in the Texas press, horrified that for the only time in Gov. Rick Perry’s life, the New
York Times editorial page has agreed with him. And Alan Dershowitz and David Axelrod too. After a couple days of nationwide denunciation
of the indictment of Governor Perry, some in the Texas press are working
overtime to turn the narrative. They are disgusted that the big feet have
weighed in so ignorant of the facts. They have called the special prosecutor a
Republican when he was nominated by Obama
and signed off on by Lloyd Doggett.
They have ignored a story about a grand jury member attending the Texas
Democratic Convention while she was empanelled, and posting a picture
where she attended an event with a key witness. They want readers to think
there really might be merit to the indictment, if you only knew as much as they
do.
The complete
column from Eric Bearse
can be found in today’s R&D Department.
By Eric Bearse
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