Republican Rep. Will Hartnett of Dallas: "You can live without anything but a brain."
Time is ticking down for the 79th Texas Legislature, and today was the opening day of Sneaky Season, when disgruntled legislators whose bills didn't make the first time around start trying to sneak them in as amendments to bills that are sure to pass.
Today the Texas House considered SB 419, a sunset bill dealing with, among other agencies, the Texas Board of Medical Examiners, to wit:
relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, Texas State Board of Physician Assistant Examiners, and Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners and the regulation of health care professions regulated by those state agencies; providing administrative penalties.
That might not sound like an abortion bill to you and me, but Rep. Will Hartnett of Dallas, who's never heard of a uterus he didn't feel an overwhelming compulsion to control, stepped to the microphone and made it clear why the marvelous Pink Dome calls him a "sneaky son of a bitch."
And I'm here to tell you just how true that is.
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