Having successful defeated the gerrymandering bill, the Democrats returned to Texas this morning. During the Democrat’s exile, the Texas Republicans resorted to getting the Department of Homeland Security involved in the search :

As reports in various Friday morning papers make clear, the Texas Department of Public Safety, tricked the folks at Homeland into thinking that they were looking for a missing aircraft that might either have crashed or fallen victim to a terrorist attack when in fact they were just trying to track down those Democrats who refused to make a quorum call. “From all indications, this request from the Texas DPS was an urgent plea for assistance from a law enforcement agency trying to locate a missing, lost or possibly crashed aircraft,” said Dean Boyd, spokesman for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

By the way, you know things are bad when people flee to Oklahoma to avoid conservative tyranny.