What a week indeed!

The Republicans have gotten spoiled....really spoiled!

But not for much longer. See, this week, despite the partial repeal of the Voting Rights Act, the progressive moment came back from the dead (or hibernation, I will note your mileage will vary on that one) with a vengeance. In fact, a governor in a southern state might have already lost reelection thanks to a filibuster.

First, came Wednesday, where the Supreme Court of the United States ruled not only that DOMA was unconstitutional, California's Proposition 8's unconstitutionality was upheld, because the plaintiffs had no standing in the case, meaning that they had no "personal stake" to bring the case to the federal level, quoting chief justice John Roberts and NBC. 

And then came what is probably one of the most daredevil YET brilliant manuevers in legislative history at the state level in our nation's history: how a once single teen mom turned state senator was able to pull a painful thirteen hour fillibuster to save a woman's right to choose in the Lone Star State. There's no doubt about it: Wendy Davis is the next Ann Richards. Making things more interesting was that Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, the daughter of the late governor, the last woman and Democrat to serve as Texas governor, was present. 

I have a good feeling that the Democrats' best chances of winning back the governor's office in Texas will be with Wendy Davis. My beef with Rick Perry is that 1) he is coming off as really fascist in trying to pass the bill and 2) making trips to New York to indirectly put New Yorkers out of work. If I was governor of New York, I wouldn't make trips to Texas to take jobs from Texans. 

I don't think that Texans are bad, I just think their politicians and air conditioning (air conditioning, as it allows people to live in extremely warm climates) are evil.