THE BIG CONVERSATION:

Don’t look now, Senator, but the vultures are circling.

“If politics is sometimes a game of musical chairs,” Theodore Kim writes in this morning’s Dallas Morning News, “then this is the quiet moment before the song starts.”

Only, in this game, all the chairs are occupied by people who refuse to move even though they’d much rather play something else.

Last week, State Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, gave up his designs for the Attorney General seat, saying, “the prospect of an open seat appears unlikely.”  In order for that to change, U.S. Sen ...

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