Legislative musings

It occurs to me (actually it occurred to me the moment I first heard about it, but I wasn’t blogging that day) that the impasse in Texas occasioned by the flight of Democrats to Oklahoma might have been solved easily by the governor of Texas had he read a little Indiana Civil War history.
Governor Oliver P. Morton, “Lincoln’s favorite governor”, was a Republican. He had a legislature full of Democrats who weren’t happy about his hawkishness. So instead of getting mad, he got even; he had the sheriff padlock the Statehouse and told the Republican contingent to go home. Without a quorum, or even a place to meet, the Democrats were screwed and Morton ran the state himself — illegally, but nobody cared once the war was over — until the crisis was over.
I think the Governor of Texas should simply have declared a state of emergency (disappearance of the elected legislature), approved the new redistricting scheme and called for immediate new elections. Sure, it would have been illegal, but it would have been RIGHT. And the coward Democrats who ran from the state would have had to come back to do something about it, or accept it as a fait accompli.
Call me harsh, but I’m getting tired of the party out of power trying to be big man on campus. Accept that you lost, and move on. That’s the way our system works, you bunch of fucking Commies.
And likewise, the Democrats in the US Senate need to stop illegally and unconstitutionally blocking the President’s judicial nominees. Same thing; you lost, get over it, move on.