It might not matter, in the end, whether the Senate wants to use some of the Rainy Day Fund to balance the budget. The House isn’t likely to go along unless the proposition is delivered on a tea cart pushed by Gov. Rick Perry and an entourage that includes the leaders of the third-party conservative groups who have been hounding lawmakers via email, phone banking and television advertising to hold the line.

It’s even harder to go on that sort of suicide mission behind a lieutenant governor who tells senators one day that he supports using the fund ...

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