Nov 2007 Texas Dim Bulb Award: "Cracker Barrel" Craddick

Phillip Martin over at Burnt Orange Report had some comments about Texas House Speaker Tom (Respect my Authoritai) Craddick's dumb-ass remark about a couple of new Cracker Barrel restaurants in his West Texas district. The article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram says:

In House Speaker Tom Craddick's West Texas district, there are two new restaurants - Cracker Barrels - that have yet to open although they were finished much earlier this year.

"Neither have opened because they can't hire anybody out there," Craddick, R-Midland, said Tuesday.

That, he said, is why education should be one of the key issues coming before state lawmakers during the 2009 session of the Texas Legislature.

"If you don't have education, the chamber can go out and solicit companies," Craddick said. "But there's nobody to do the work."