{"id":16,"date":"2013-06-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/28\/speaker-spits-into-the-wind"},"modified":"2013-06-28T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:00:00","slug":"speaker-spits-into-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Speaker spits into the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Texas House Speaker Joe Straus has weighed in Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s remarks about state Sen. Wendy Davis\u2019s controversial \u2013 and in some circles highly acclaimed \u2013 filibuster of an anti-abortion bill.<\/p>\n<p>Perry said Davis, D-Fort Worth, had failed to learned from \u201cher own example\u201d that children born into \u201cunfortunate circumstances\u201d can grow up and be successful, as she has done.<\/p>\n<p>Straus told the Texas Tribune that Perry\u2019s remarks damaged the Republican \u201cbrand.\u201d He didn\u2019t like their personal tone.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/28\/straus-says-perry-crossed-line-davis-comments\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/28\/straus-says-perry-crossed-line-davis-comments\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/28\/straus-says-perry-crossed-line-davis-comments\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I happen to agree with the speaker. Then again, I\u2019m not a member of the Texas Republican Party\u2019s extreme right-wing fringe, which includes Gov. Perry as its star member \u2013 and which has been highly critical of Straus\u2019s speakership, not to mention his leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Straus is a Republican as well, but he has this nasty habit of working across the aisle with legislative Democrats. Does he favor the restrictive anti-abortion bill that Davis filibustered into (temporary) oblivion? Yes. That\u2019s not good enough to suit some within his party, who want him to be even more hard-nosed than he\u2019s been. It kind of reminds me of liberals within the Democratic Party who didn\u2019t much like former Speaker Pete Laney\u2019s willingness to work with those dreaded Republicans, chief among them being then-Gov. George W. Bush. Laney, the Panhandle cotton farmer, wasn\u2019t dissuaded by his critics and I\u2019m guessing Straus won\u2019t be deterred by his critics, either.<\/p>\n<p>Straus still will be in the doghouse with righties within his party, even though he\u2019s right to be critical of Gov. Perry\u2019s big mouth.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Speaker Joe Straus has weighed in Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s remarks about state Sen. Wendy Davis\u2019s controversial \u2013 and in some circles highly acclaimed \u2013 filibuster of an anti-abortion bill. Perry said Davis, D-Fort Worth, had failed to learned from \u201cher own example\u201d that children born into \u201cunfortunate circumstances\u201d can grow up and be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker spits into the wind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}