Damn straight! Kansas City is the place you should go for good BBQ.
I’m sure that’s what you meant… 
SkipMagic: not unless Kansas City is spelled L-O-C-K-H-A-R-T.
Dewey - if Oklahoma is the mortal enemy of the state of Texas then those Dems can be legally accused of treason by our (Texas) constitution.
What makes you think there would be a request? **
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Why is Texas asking for its politicians back?
They may be corrupt, vile, cretinous, and functionally illiterate, but they do control the purse strings.
Sorry about the coding, JeffB was the one who asked why there would be a request.
mischievous
Whoop!
Homebrew
Fightin’ Texas Aggie
Class of '92
As in “June”? Hell, I think you’re just as Lost in Space as she was.
… which might explain your confusion about the whole barbeque thingy. 
There it is?
Dewey - if Oklahoma is the mortal enemy of the state of Texas then those Dems can be legally accused of treason by our (Texas) constitution.
Back button and refresh…a truly awesome combination
Brings new meaning to the phrase, …
Texas crude.
There’s one thing about this that everyone can agree on. You’ve got to admire the Dems’ moxy…
…in going to Oklahoma.
You’ve gotta be kidding. This kind of battle goes on all the time. Someone called it political self-interest in its purest form. Texas is just upping the ante by rescheduling it severely and making it eclipse other, more desperately essential issues. Besides, regardless of what its true intent may be, coming on the heels of the first Republican-dominated legislature in Texas since Reconstruction, it looks painfully like an attempt to cement that situation.
My query as an out-of-state Liberal-type – if Texas has achieved its record of ineffective pollution control and other situations liberals are generally against with a Democratic legislature, what will it do now with a Republican-dominated legislature? I realize that Republican does not equal Conservative and all, but you gotta wonder.
Homebrew should have explained this for the uninitiated 'round here, but being an Aggie he naturally didn’t think that far ahead.
“Whoop” is a cheer of sorts for Texas A&M. It is used in much the same way as “Oo-rah!” in the armed forces. It is not fully pronounced as in the Tag Team rap song – it is pronouced quickly, with an “uh” rather than “oo” sound, and in a relatively high-pitched voice.
If you were to say “Oklahoma sucks” (or, more commonly, “UT sucks”) in front of a crowd of Aggies, they’d all reply with “Whoop!”
Silly Aggies. 
Silly person, Texas Democrats are more conservative then New England Republicans. This is just politics.
Are you saying december slants or misstates facts? I am shocked! He is clearly as “fair and balanced” as Fox News Network! What?
BTW: I was just kidding as you seemed to be posting on a lot of political issues lately- no serious point was intented.
Like I said before, Oklahoma was the right choice- even if they do get arrested for not being Republican, they may get off with time served.
The links on the CNN home page were kind of disturbing if you weren’t aware of the goings on in Texas. The first link is Report: 16 bodies found in tractor-trailer in Texas. Then 4 links down from that is Texas Democrats flee to Oklahoma.
I started having Onion flashbacks.
This is further evidence that Democrats in general cannot handle the fact that they are becoming irrelevant. Rather than stay in town and face the distasteful fact that they are no longer in power, they leave the state. This prevents those who are duly elected by the people the Democrats claim to revere from exercising the power that the electorate chose to bestow upon them. Attach noble motives to their activity if your ideology compels you to do so…but the bottom line is that the Democrats are thwarting the will of the majority of the people in the state of Texas.
If anything, this walkout demonstrates that the Democrats are still highly relevant, and cannot simply be ignored. To wit, without the Dems, the R’s can’t redistrict the state.
Ah, remember the halcyon days of yesterday, when the Lege was still controlled by the Dems and a certain Republican governor was so proud of how well the Republicans worked together with the Democrats to build a better Texas? Guess there’s no more need to work together now that the R’s have both houses in the Lege, huh?
But by running away like a flock of seagulls are they not DEFYING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE?
Did not the people of Texas rise up, and pronounce the Democratic party too touchy-feely and icky?
Did they not vote?
What mandate, what ethos, what rationale then justifies these slinking skulking shenanigans?
Are they not an open open attempt to defy that which Democratic process has said must be so?
Irrelevant? Of course they’re irrelevant. They just haven’t faced facts.