Texas House Democrats who fled the state over a redistricting vote are trying to be taken seriously while taking smiling selfies and uploading cringeworthy videos dressed up like the Unabomber and saying, "We're gonna hurt some people." They've already been given press conferences by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The Texas House has passed a motion to issue arrest warrants for the missing representatives, but Pritzker will protect them as if they were criminal illegal aliens hiding out.

The Houston Chronicle has weighed in in support of the Democrats, saying that they haven't abandoned their jobs (they have) and asking, seriously, "How many children must die to make disaster recovery a priority over power-plays?"

Tying representatives fleeing the state to children killed in a flash flood to avoid a vote they know they're going to lose isn't a power-play? C'mon, man.

How, exactly, are the Democrats saving children's lives if they're not even in the state?

How many children must die just so Republicans can vote to redraw the districts? This is just ridiculous … almost as bad as Jim Acosta "interviewing" a dead Parkland student.