Trying Not to Get Wet With the Rainy Day Fund

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Texas legislators have to choose between mobs.

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One group has gathered several times over the last two years under the Gadsden Flag, the yellow one with the coiled snake and the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.” The other is a more recent phenomenon, and its members gather under signs that say things like, “If you can read this, thank a teacher.”

Legislators attempting to balance the budget are also doing some political balancing, trying to find a way to calm the voters so they can get re-elected and keep their jobs.

That was evident this week. Faced with a $4.3 billion budget deficit for the current biennium and with no other way to keep things going, Gov. Rick Perry and Texas House leaders agreed to tap the state’s Rainy Day Fund
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/us/18ttramsey.html?_r=1&src=twrhp

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1. "plate full of red-meat conservative issues"

I hope they choke on their meat! :grr: