#zaffirini

On Friday, Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune was either killing time on Facebook or astutely tracking down the prevailing sentiments of our state's lawmakers.

He stumbled upon a butthurt Senator Judith Zaffirini, who Dewhurst busted last week, revoking her Higher Education committee chairmanship.

Ramsey wisely took a screenshot:

He then tweeted the juicy screenshot with her response:

"Zaffirini says this is how she opens speeches and has nothing to do with losing the Higher Education chair."

She is, of course, a dirty liar...because the post seems to have disappeared into the Zuckerberg vault of questionable decisions, along with Facebook's scores of deleted weekend frat party photo albums and check-ins at Linkin Park concerts. Her passive-agressive Facebook post became a passive-agressive deletion.

I can't find it anywhere. If you can, let our Corrections Division know.**

I'm going to assume the worst. Zaffirini is calling Dewhurst a "loser"...and not the kind that spends their entire day creating Spotify playlists. She's threatening his 2014 candidacy, predicting he will lose.

The insiders forcefully assert that Zaffirini is one mean lady, and nobody should ever piss her off, lest they be vanquished by her ninja powers.

Somewhere along the way, I missed something. She can produce dozens of notebooks full of research about a bill and repeat party talking points with the best of em. But what the hell else can she do?

Zaffirini is a state senator. Dewhurst is the lieutenant governor.

If I were Dewhurst, I'd probably have a little chat with Zaffirini about her grade-school antics. If she whined, I'd take away her chairmanship of the other committee too. In fact, I'd appoint her chairman of a one-person committee tasked with teaching its members how to properly pronounce the word "fiscal," because she still can't get that one right.

I want to see the next iteration of Perry vs. Strayhorn, circa 2006-ish. Let's just say I'm bored. How did that one work out?

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In the interest of satisfying my inner conspiracy theorist, here is the text of Zaffirini's TheFacebook.com post, because her office will surely contact Ramsey to delete this photo, and I don't know how to take a screenshot on my Blackberry (emphasis not mine at all):

"WHAT DO YOU CALL SENATORS WHO TAKE THEIR RE-ELECTIONS FOR GRANTED? Losers!

The same word applies to officeholders who forget that friendship is a two-way street and betray their friends while trying to make new ones. The key to re-election is to expand your base--not to trade one group of loyal friends and supporters for another."