Lagniappe - It appears that Texas Republicans are getting deeper and deeper into a scandal involving the use of a federal agency to do their partisan bidding - primarily by providing misleading information. Credit where credit is due: this report comes courtesy of Rod Dreher who has been critically assessing and following the affair on National Review Online's blog, "The Corner." It would be worthwhile for cocky GOPers to read Andrew Sullivan's cautionary piece, Hubris Ascendant.