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...with Pelosi and who somehow ended up losing their committee chairmanships. She also tends to reward supporters with plum assignments over those who fought her. Former Texas Rep. Martin Frost waited for years to get on the Appropriations Committee and, after challenging Pelosi for minority leader, soon watched fellow Texan Chet Edwards get a coveted committee seat. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...with an ad that played several times on the final night of the Olympics just to make that point. In front of a large Texas flag, he opened with the simple statement: "Washington is broken." And exhibit No. 1 of how bad Washington had become in his eyes? Fellow Texan Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senior U.S. Senator who was once the prohibitive favorite to succeed Perry in Austin...
...final weekend of the campaign, both Perry and Hutchison were stressing their Texas roots. Hutchison, a fifth-generation Texan and a Daughter of the Republic of Texas, sat astride a quarter horse, wearing a black Stetson as she rode in the Houston Rodeo parade. Her cowboy boots were decorated with the word Senator. As for Perry, he spoke to the Texas State Rifle Association Saturday. "Texas is just a sensible place to live. It's a sensible place that takes sensible approaches to issues like gun rights," he said. "We treat our citizens like adults in this state...
...could to put him at ease. I laughed and joked and tried to be unintimidating. As we had lunch and walked around Georgetown, I asked him about his background and how he snagged a job with Karl Rove. We chatted about his semester abroad in Italy and his Texan upbringing. Easy question after easy question, nothing to scare...
...American convert, who first articulated a vision for a Muslim punk scene in 2002, when he wrote a novel about it called The Taqwacores. (The title combines the words taqwa, Arabic for "higher consciousness," and core, from hardcore.) He then received an e-mail from a 16-year-old Texan Muslim, Kourosh Poursalehi, who was in a band called Vote Hezbollah, asking how he could get in touch with the mohawked Sufis, skater punks, burqa-wearing riot grrrls and skinhead Shi'ites in the book. When Knight told him it was fiction, Poursalehi responded, "Well, then I'll make...