Entering the Texas Twilight Zone

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball talks about Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and his ongoing war against pretend problems such as voter fraud, women’s healthcare and the Obama administration.

“A rational person might think that officials in the state with the worst health care in the country and one of the highest poverty rates might focus their time on actual problems. As Attorney General Greg Abbott has chosen a different path.

“Why focus on education or safety when you could instead wage a ‘to the death struggle’ against fake problems like voter fraud?”

As soon as the Supreme Court struck down key provisions to the Voting Rights Act “Abbott pushed forward with a voter ID which — in the real world will disenfranchise women, minorities, young people, senior citizens and the poor, but in the Texas Twilight Zone — will protect election integrity and the voter fraud that happens in Abbott’s mind.”

Ball also notes that Abbott has taken a “Star Trek approach to boldly standing against a UN conspiracy to take our guns” and has used taxpayer money to investigate a school system at the request of “conspiracy whackos” who were concerned the curiculum was “being used to indoctrinate children with Muslim propaganda, Marxism and Nazi mind-control. “

Abbott has also claimed that the Obama administration is “posing a greater threat to Texas than North Korea’s nukes” and he has sued the administration 25 times of the last four years, at great cost to taxpayers while claiming to be a fiscal conservative.”

Abbott is also waging a war against women’s reproductive health care in Texas, where his “self-proclaimed concern for women’s health has bizarrely led him to fight for unconstitutional, medically unnecessary laws that keep women from accessing the most modern medical techniques and make flea market abortions more common. “

Abbott is currently running for Governor of Texas against State Senator Wendy Davis and thus far is leading her in the polls.

According to Ball,

“The media has thus far covered the Davis – Abbott race as a question of whether Davis is too liberal or Abbott too conservative. But the real question, though, is whether Texans want to fully enter the Twilight Zone.

Right now Davis is a long-shot, down by 8 points in a recent poll. Can she win? As Rod Serling would say: ‘stranger things have happened.'”

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