Benjamin Sarlin reports that legendary GOP hitman Roger Stone regrets his role in getting President Bush into office.

Representative Burt Solomons, Carrollton Republican, has filed to run for Speaker of the House. There's some interesting rhetoric in Representative Solomons' filing via the Dallas Morning News:

The Politico rightly notes that that not only is this the first time in almost seventy years that Texas' congressional delegation doesn't have lots of seniority and plum committee assignments, but that this is largely due to Tom DeLays's machinations to redistrict the state. Had DeLay not been greedy and gerrymandered the state, we would have three more great Democrats, like Martin Frost, as committee chairs. It will most likely take decades to rebuild that kind of accumulated seniority.

Once again, we feature the best of Texas blogs from the last week, as selected by the blogs themselves.

Apparently, someone thinks it's funny to make jokes about Joe Biden as President in 2009.

Some polling locations are reporting that as many as two of every three people showing up to vote are at the wrong location. So use our links here to find your voting location before you head out.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, the number three Republican in the Senate, had the following to say about convicted felon Ted Stevens (R-AK):

Question: What do you get when you combine a hotly-contested Senate race with a litigious incumbent whose wife was mentioned in a Texas lawsuit over financial impropriety on an insurance payment? You get a Texas Blue news item!

Tom DeLay found some time in his busy schedule of blogging and astroturfing to appear on MSNBC's Hardball, and he managed to once again provide the same level of popcorn-throwing entertainment that Houstonians loved for so many years.

Via the Statesman's excellent Postcards from the Lege blog, there's a new poll due to be released tomorrow from the University of Texas' Politics Project and Department of Government that takes the pulse of 550 registered Texas voters from mid-October on a couple of races and couple of interesting topics.