Who's surprised?

I'm not going to pontificate too much on this, just get to business.

So we spend the first several weeks of every Texas legislative session patting each other on the back and passing resolutions honoring or recognizing this and that. Lobbyists buy dinners, legislators meet at the Brown Bar and Four Seasons Hotel for drinks and conversation with their very young and attractive interns who happen to be the daughter of a major contributor.

And then we helter skelter for a couple of weeks to actually take care of needed business. So why are we surprised that nothing gets accomplished on the state departments that our ability to move and the cost of our life and health insurance? That the clamor starts for a special session with all the attendant cost in tough economic times?

This gives new meaning to both words hope and despair.