Democrats Refuse to Stand Up for Texas.....Why?

It’s that time of the year again when national politics start to take shape.  And just to show you how much history repeats itself, (kids, this is why we teach history), the national news media and the national Democratic Party have started another anti-Texas campaign.

All of these attack news articles and comments (In 3 days I counted 15 anti-Perry/Texas articles in the SA Express News and Laredo Morning Times) are happening because Texas Governor Rick Perry entered the race and took the early lead in the polls.  Now, I have nothing against these types of articles if they are truthful (topic for another blog) as this is politics.  There will be plenty more to come.

What I do find offensive is that NO Democrats are questioning any of the statements being made by the national news media, or the Presidents political team.  This is reminiscent of the campaign in 2000 when national Democrats attacked Texas and the local Democrats just sat on their hands and took it.  No pride, no desire at all to defend the home front.  They pulled their heads back into their shells. 

Kind of like when things got tough in 2003 and instead of staying in the state to fight legislation proposed by the Republicans, they fled the state to hide in Oklahoma.  Later, they again fled the state, this time to hide in Arizona.   Cowards?  You decide.

Now this hiding in the shell might be understandable if the attacks on Texas weren’t an attack on the areas managed by Democrats.  Yep, you heard it right.  Most of the poverty and poor education results come from the areas where Democrats have been in charge for well over 20 years. 

When the Secretary of Education states that too few Texas kids are ready to go to college, he is talking about the high percentage of minority kids who cannot pass the entrance exams.  The majority of these minority kids go to schools in districts that have been controlled by Democratic political office holders (machines) for decades.  The border region comes to mind.  Now you can whine and complain that the Republicans are responsible for these results, but the fact is local Democratic politics that decide on how schools operate along the border.   They decide to pay administrators and what programs to implement.  They decide on the day to day operation of the education system. 

Take the news this week that LISD is giving teachers a raise (good for them, I am always for teachers, versus administrators getting more) and the new additions to UISD, a brand new $ 1 million IT studio and LISD spending millions on a new food preparation center, football stadium and the moving of a magnet school.  Democrats you should be boasting that Laredo is doing these things and paying for it with local money. 

Yet, because you would rather sit on your hands and support your political party and it’s attacks on Texas, you say nothing.

Pretty weak if you ask me.  Are there any real Texans left in the Democratic Party?