The Vicious Infighting Between Texas Republicans May Be the State’s Only Hope
When I was in the Army a lifetime ago, I was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia; roughly 40 miles away in Savannah was Hunter Army Airfield, then the home of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. We often crossed paths with the Rangers while drinking on River Street in Savannah and there was one thing that we could always count on. If a group of Rangers had not found any townies to fight by midnight, they would just fight each other.
It sounds crazy, I know, but not all that surprising for a bunch of hardcore warriors in their late teens and early 20s who thought they were ten feet tall and bulletproof. It is more surprising when it’s a group of middle-aged men and women who probably haven’t done a push-up since before the internet was invented, but that’s what we saw with the Texas Republican party over the past few weeks.
Totally separate from the impeachment, Paxton has been under felony indictment for state securities fraud for the past eight years and under investigation by the FBI for nearly three years. Given the seriousness of the impeachment charges, the fact that it was a Republican-controlled House that impeached him, and his other ongoing issues, one would logically assume that he would be quickly convicted when the trial took place in the Senate.
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