So Texas kids continue to sleep on office floors, get handcuffed to desks, and trafficked out of state while Abbott & his GOP buddies bask in the votes of "concerned" white evangelical voters.

Governor Abbott and Republicans in Texas will tell you that they're very, very, very concerned about children. Particularly before they're born. Even when they're the size of a grain of rice and have a tail, indistinguishable from a tadpole, at around 6 weeks of gestation.

But when children are "post-birth" and old enough that the State of Texas might have to use tax dollars to pay to care for them when their own birth parents can't or won't? Suddenly Texas Republicans have amnesia about their much-vaunted concern for kids.

Yesterday, US District Judge Janis Jack cut short, after only 3 hours, a hearing that was scheduled to run for two days about the Abbott administration's utter failure to care for the often-unwanted and most vulnerable children who end up in the state's foster care system.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom