Our political Quote of the Day is by Texas state Rep. Jim Dunnam of Waco, talking about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s comment that if it gets bad enough (meaning the way Perry and some Republicans don’t want) the state of Texas can secede from the United States:
“We all knew he wanted to be president. I just didn’t know it was president of the Republic of Texas,” he said to chuckles from onlookers.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.