Legendary Texas congressman Sam Rayburn used to say, “Any jackass can kick a barn down. It takes a carpenter to build one.”

One of the current Texas members of Congress – from Hays County no less – kicked down a barn this past week. He says he’s proud of his destruction. Maybe so, but Texans will suffer for it.

On the Friday before Memorial Day, local Congressman Chip Roy, a local Republican, single-handedly killed a disaster relief that would have meant hundreds of m...