For a Texas governor, the headline perfectly describes a successful special session. Voters didn't get hurt, weren't aroused, and aren't mad.

This special session will be a success if, in a couple of years, most of the people involved have to be reminded of what it was about. If they can't immediately recall it (except for the mooks out there), that's a sign that everything went okay. It has all the signs of a winner.

The "got-to" issues moved quickly, with both chambers unanimously approving sales of $2 billion in highway bonds already approved by voters and extending the lives of five agencies that, without legislative action, would go out of business in September 2010.

Lawmakers stalled on a third issue, partly because none of them could detect enough local fever over public-private highway projects to approve new ones. They decided to let it hold and ended the session about 31 hours after it started.

And they did it with very little television coverage and with voters getting ready for a holiday weekend. Many people didn't even know they were in town.