The glow of the first week of an unrestricted generosity is wearing off, ... Now we're on to the stories of crime and cost and what are these guys going to do to the partisan balance.

I consider DeLay in significant danger of losing his seat in the general election.

If DeLay were not indicted, he probably wouldn't even have a strong enough opponent where he would have to spend all that money on his own race.

I think of 2002 as the last gasp of the old order. The first gasp of the new order might well be 2010.

If you're betting your own money, you bet on Perry (to win re-election). But he can be beaten because there are reservations about him that run deep.

The ministers may think this is a religious, biblical issue but for Perry, while it may be that too, it's also a powerful political tool.

It will pass in Texas by a vote of 2-to-1,

It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice. The fact that he wasn't able to build on that achievement (in 1996) is a comment on the uniqueness of that race and what he had to offer as a candidate.

It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they have.

The Republican governor and the Republican majority in the Legislature are unable to close that out. The fact they have failed to deal with public education, either education reforms or funding, has come home to roost.