Thanks for the compliment on my commenting. You’re a talented blogger, which makes it easier to find connections. 🙂

I’ve been to Houston, once, and visited the neighborhood that surrounds Rice; I can imagine that being a pocket of Texas blue. It will be interesting to see how the Texas’s politics change as the state’s Latino population continues to grow; I’m hopeful that more of Texas will turn blue.

I call the Congress idiotic, but in a way, they are quite good at their job, since blocking Obama’s more progressive initiatives has continued the widening of economic inequality in the US; and the GOP quite clearly is doing the bidding of its oligarchic masters. (The Democrats are nominally and rhetorically the party of the common person; but it’s important to remember that Clinton gave us NAFTA, for example, which I would argue was one of the worst things to happen to working people in the past 30 years.) The GOP’s policies are disastrous for the country as a whole, but very good for the corporate elite; so perhaps I should call John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and their whole GOP crew idiotic like a fox, if you will.