Maybe I caught him at a weak moment. Last night, he was back in fighting form, telling an audience of red-blooded patriots in Cowtown that they needed to sand-blast House Republicans off their promises to vote for Joe Straus for speaker -- with calls; emails; and shoot, perhaps even a threat or two about having a GOP primary opponent.
A day earlier, though, Rep. Warren Chisum sounded worn out by the Strausian chase.
"It's a tough duty, man," he said, driving himself on I-35 to another meeting, this time in San Antonio, with another colleague reluctant to hit the eject button and bolt from the current speaker's camp.
"I can repeat it from memory, this 'My word's my honor, my pledge,' " said Chisum (above, AP photo). "You go through all of that for the umpteenth time and finally they get down [to], 'Well, I'm staying where I am, and I'm not really that concerned about the outside people who want to do something different,' " a reference to tea party activists seeking to purify the GOP.
Chisum, R-Pampa, said he can count noses. While he and fellow insurgent speaker candidate Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, have their supporters, they're a long way from victory, Chisum said.
"I think me and Paxton are on the same little inner tube," he mused. "So maybe we go down at the same time. It may be one of those water wing things. ... You know, they cost 10 bucks and you put your kid out there in them and dadgum! The kid went down when the water wings went down!"
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/11/tough-duty-says-trail-driving.html
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