April 28, 2015 4:22 PM

Bearse: Breakfast-gate

From the Right: QR’s conservative Republican columnist Eric Bearse says the Tea Party attacks on Gov. Abbott’s pre-k initiative are “ shortsighted, ignorant, and so poorly written that they actually made the case for more funding for Pre-K – starting with the authors.”

It used to be what was said at breakfast stayed at breakfast. But we are in a new era of mistrust. We literally had a baseball owner leak that one of his star players had a drug relapse, and later express his dismay that Major League Baseball didn’t suspend him for any games. Note to kids: sometimes authorities give you a break when you tell on yourself, which is what Josh Hamilton did. Also, I am told no kids read this column, except for adults that act like kids at leadership breakfasts. And there is absolutely no confirmation that they read this column either, just as there is no explicit evidence Hillary Clinton gave away 20 percent of American uranium just to get her husband out of the country for a Moscow speaking engagement.

But I digress.

Fighting at leadership breakfasts is not new. Talking about it to reporters is new. Now we have Breakfast-gate. It doesn’t bode well for the future of this trio (I guess I should say quartet because the Comptroller gets a free invite too – somebody has to pick up the check) if closed door sniping is finding it’s way onto Burkablog and then to the state’s major newspapers.

But as long as we are discussing confidential breakfast material, I am told one time Dewhurst was reprimanding Strayhorn, who shall now be referenced as One Tough Monogram, concerning spending, or the revenue estimate, or some other fiscal matter and literally broke out the Mansion Equal packets to make his point.

The complete column from Eric Bearse is in the R&D Department.

By Eric Bearse