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Texas Two-Stepping Ahead

George W. Bush's successor learned from a master, as Ron Kirk is finding out. Plus: Al Gore lite.
p> SMART MISCHIEF br> While Democratic Texas Senate candidate Ron Kirk is away, Republican Gov. Rick Perry is creating mischief, and helping his state attorney general, John Cornyn , at the same time. On Tuesday, Perry appointed former Democratic state attorney general Dan Morales to the state anti-crime commission, a post that will give Morales, who hoped to challenge Perry for the governorship, but who lost in the Democratic primary, a public platform to speak from on an issue Morales claimed to care a lot about. /p>

More troubling to Democrats in the state, however, is that Morales no longer appears interested in criticizing Perry or his administration.

"This is the kin of crap Karl Rove pulled all the time down here with Bush," says a Democratic state party official in Austin. "Co-opt the opposition. Morales is a turncoat; now he sees why no one supported him for the Democratic gubernatorial slot."

Sounds like sour taquitos to us. But why such anger?

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