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November 30 -
Well, apparently a honky tonk moon was up in Las
Vegas on the campaign donor dollar.
Texas Governor Rick Perry and his son did a little boot
shining in Las Vegas while Rick was there ---
The governor's Oct.
24 political trip to Las Vegas to meet with Brian
Sandoval, a Republican candidate for Nevada
governor, included a bachelor party for Perry's son,
Griffin, spokesman Mark Miner conceded Thursday.
He initially declined
to call it a bachelor's party, saying he would
describe it more as a dinner. He confirmed, though,
that it was a celebration of Griffin Perry's
upcoming nuptials joined by a number of his male
friends.
I wonder if Rick's Super DeLux Brand Christian friends
know where he takes his son for a bachelor's party?
I would think the proper place would be the fellowship
hall of the Greater Mount Utopia Baptist Church,
Footwashing Division. And it would end by 8:00
p.m., a proper time.
November 30
-
What El Jefe said.
No, really, you have to go look.
The Fort Bend County Teabaggers are taking Christ out
of Christmas and Christmas out of America.
I seriously wonder if they will file with the Texas
Ethics Commission in January in as a political
organization. If they support and/or endorse a
candidate, they have to file with the ethics commission.
This "non-profit" crapola doesn't abide with the
statutes.
It seems to me that they are a specific purpose
political committee and they have to publicly account
for all raised and spent monies. As greedy and
self-serving as these sons of motherless goats are, I
wouldn't trust them with a dang dime.
Woo woo - this could be fun. They cannot hide
behind anonymous names anymore.
Susan, there is something very wrong
with those that want to use the
Christmas Lighting in Sugarland for a
political rally! I have written to the
Mayor and to the sponsors telling them -
in a nice way, of course, what jerks I
think that they are....idiots!
I am
changing my name here as we have 2
Carols on the books...
Carolsb
November 29 - If I
ever need reminding about why I cancelled my
subscription to Newsweek Magazine, I will
try to
re-read this without bleeding from my eyes.
John Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, is like a catfish
- all mouth and no brain.
And he wants Dick Cheney to run for President.
Dick Cheney.
Yes, that Dick Cheney.
The Dick Cheney who came within a six months and two
undisclosed locations of totally destroying this
country's economy. Why don't we just forgo an
election and gleefully give the country to Dick's
buddies at Halliburton? Now, boy howdy, there's an
idea that Newsweek can get behind.
Meacham thinks Dick Cheney on the ticket would
pull Obama to the right. Honey, the only thing
iock Cheney can pull is shenanigans.
President Dick Cheney? Honey, been there, done
that. Ended up in hell. He makes a hornet
look cuddly.
Susan, I have subscribed to Newsweek for
most of my adult life but have just let
my subscription expire. At the time I
thought maybe it was just me but I think
you have confirmed my point about Jon
Meacham. The magazine no longer serves
my needs or interest but I will really
miss the OLD NEWSWEEK. It is so hard to
take this desktop or my laptop to the
bathroom for really errr ahh "deep"
contemplation of the days/weeks events.
Jerry C.
November 29
- If you're ready for a fun read on the Monday
morning following Thanksgiving weekend, I've got a deal
for you.
The Houston Press is doing it's Turkey Awards.
And, of course, Rick Perry is the Double Grand Prize Winner
with a Cherry on Top. Hell, he's the winanator!
To know just how gosh-awful Houston, Texas, can be, here's
who did not win ---
The HISD
geniuses who sent a drug-sniffing dog on a rampage,
resulting in the highly publicized arrest of a
popular teacher from a ritzy elementary who was the
poster child for not doing drugs (charges
were later dropped as surely as Steve Slaton
fumbling on a Texans' run); the law-enforcement
officers in Galveston County who ran up a string of
arrests for people who happened to curse in public (WTF?);
the BARC officials who seemed unable to wash puppies
without sending a few down the drain to their
wide-eyed puppy deaths; the Bellaire police
department and mayor, who refused to apologize when
they mistakenly shot a minority kid in his own
driveway;
The Houston Press reminds us, and Lord knows we need it
that Rick Perry is an electoral amazement --
Perry is
the longest-serving governor in the state's history;
the strange thing is that people don't seem to like
him much. He won his last re-election with 39
percent of the vote, which is about what George
McGovern managed to scare up against Richard Nixon
in 1972.
By the way, Allen Sanford doesn't even make the list
until page 4. And Tom DeLay, who led the list 12 years
ago, ends it this year.
November 28
- Thanks to Elizabeth for this guide of
what NOT to get your child for Christmas.
I, of course, would include "Gleefully Gay Dancing Tom
DeLay Doll" and the "Bubble Head Sarah Palin."
Also, look out for the "Complete Works of the George W
Bush Library in Pocket Book Form."
November 27 - I'm
really glad that Tiger Woods is going to be okay.
But, if someone in my neighborhood came up laying in
the middle of the road face up, unconscious, with his
wife
standing
over him holding a golf club at 2:30 in the a.m., and
the back story is that she heard him crash into a fire
plug and came running out and smashed in the back window
of his Cadillac with a golf club to get him out, uh, I'm
just warning that there wouldn't be a soul in four zip
codes
who would buy that story.
We'd suspect that the back window was out before he
left the driveway because most, not all, but most, women
don't run outside with a golf club at 2:30 a.m. unless
they are teed-off, not teed-up.
Bubba says the whole thing doesn't shock him, what with
the way Tiger has been driving lately.
The Clone was reading me updates on the
Tiger situation this afternoon, and at one
point she found something that said alcohol
had been ruled out as a cause of the
accident. I said that was good, but pointed
out there were other substances we hadn't
heard about yet. Not to mention that they
NEVER check for excess testosterone. Which
now looks like something they might want to
consider. :)
Susan, the
Tiger Woods story reminds me about our
former football star Warren Moon and his
estwhile "accident" in his driveway when
his wife smashed up a new Mercedes which was
delivered to her by mistake--
wrong wife!
Then our esteemed District Attorney John
Healey insisted on prosecuting him for
bopping her one for smashing the car, even
though she refused to press wife beating
charges against him, saying instead that she
had beat him. Several months, hundreds of
headlines, and thousands of tax payer
dollars later, Mr. and Mrs. Moon walked
free into the loving arms of a divorce
court. The divorce court is where they
should have been in the first place, but our
DA wanted to get re- elected. Beware of what
you do now, as he is up for re-election
and looking for another cause.
Tiger has said this is a "private" matter.
Hell fire, he ought to know there is no
privacy for media stars, but I don't blame
him for trying. It IS no one's business. I
say let 'em fight it out in private.
From AP to
the Washington Post, the Guardian, Entertainment
Weekly, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, everyone is
talking about the Rogue Coloring Book that skins
Sarah Palin’s policies like she would a rogue moose.
(Check out our media links and sample pages!) We
couldn’t let her book pepper the bookstores and
media without a fight. While there are two sides to
every story, let’s first get something clear here –
Sarah didn’t write this book either.
Y'all remember back when Tom Delay was being asked a
question about something in his book and he denied ever
saying something like that. When the interviewer
read Tom the direct quote from his own book, Tom was
bumfuzzled.
It became clear that Tom hadn't read the book he wrote.
I'm thinking the same thing about Sarah. I'll
betcha she didn't read it.
And speaking of Tom DeLay, his career has peeked at
failure once again and his
website chronicles it.
November 26-
Bubba, Jr. has changed his theory about health care.
I'm starting to agree with him.
He used to be for single payer, but has shifted to the
public option as being the truly progressive position.
His reasoning is that the public option will put the
insurance companies out of business because a non-profit
can operate cheaper that a profit hog.
However, all the far right-wingers will not go with the
public option because they fear "Obama Care" and the
government running things. They have to stay pure
to their ideological beliefs and spend far more money
for far less care.
So, they will stay with private for-profit insurance,
and - hot damn! - they will get screwed even worse than
they do now.
If that ain't a liberal blessingfest, I don't know what
is!
November 24 - Susan has asked me to tell you that her
internet connection is down and she doesn't have time to
go to the coffee shop what with Thanksgiving and family
and pecan pie and all.
So she says to have a Happy Thanksgiving and she'll pay
attention to your emails after the holiday.
Your
Friend, The Hey Zeus
November 23
- Well, it's all the news.
It appears that Texas Democrats are going to try their
hardest not to hand a victory to the GOP in 2010.
That alone gets
front page coverage in Texas.
DINO Tom Schieffer dropped out of the Governor's race and
endorsed Houston Mayor Bill White.
I am hoping that Hank Gilbert will decide to run for
Lt. Governor. The Texas Governor is a manager and
Bill White is a great manager. The Lt. Gov. sets
policy and I like Hank's policies.
Mega successful businessman Farouk Shami would make a
perfect candidate for Texas Comptroller.
We've got a line up and deep bench. Let's just
hope we can find the goal posts.
November 22
- I was in Dallas today on the anniversary of the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. Bubba was on the
parade route that day and waved at John Kennedy five
blocks before the shooting. Bubba still cries at
Dealey Plaza. It is a memory that haunts him.
Diane gave me a heads up about an article in Esquire
Magazine that that stunned me. It's about John
Kennedy and fools from East Texas continuing to be fools
from East Texas - Louis Gohmert, in particular.
Characterized
chiefly by the blankness behind his eyes, Gohmert
has the face of a hooligan and the politesse to
match. Stinking of contempt, no greater reactionary
is to be found in the Congress today. And certainly
it is people like him who have abetted the toxic
atmosphere that holds in our current politics. He
has screamed that the president is a "socialist!"
perhaps louder and longer than anyone else in his
caucus (which is quite a distinction), he is a
birther who believes that Obama is an alien Muslim,
and he has said that the president’s health care
plan will "absolutely kill senior citizens."
Mark Warren, the Texan who wrote the article, wonders
aloud about a letter a found from an East Texas woman in
the days following JFK's murder.
It's certainly worth your time.
I still remember the hatred of Kennedy in
the part of Texas where I grew up, and I
experience the even worse vitriol and hatred
of East Texas regularly, as I work up
there. They don't even try to hide it, it's
taken for granted that all 'real Americans',
meaning white males, hate everyone who isn't
pure white, whatever that may mean. I don't
know why they don't just wear their
bedsheets and pillowcases full time.
Naturally, they're all teabaggers, and any
attempt to reason with them is completely
useless. I'm certain there will be deaths
resulting from this, and probably fairly
soon.
Mah Fellow
Merkuhns
Hello
Susan,
Today Kay Bailey Hutchison was on
Meet the Press. Wimpy host David
Gregory was asking her if Tim
Geithner should resign, but since
she, along with all the other
Republicons, most of the Democrats,
and Tim Geithner, have sold out to
Wall Street, there wasn't much she
could say. Inadvertently, Gregory
actually got her to say something
truthful. I'm certain he didn't mean
for her to do that (we all know he's
been carrying water for the
Republicons since he got this job).
He asked Kay, "Do you think he
should keep his job?" KBH replied,
"Well, look, we shouldn't keep our
jobs either." For once, a Republicon
told the truth.
Dallas public
television station KERA reports that Gov. Rick Perry
and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have agreed to debate
on Jan. 14 -- statewide, televised, one hour,
questions from journalists.
Boy howdy, they should put this on pay-per-view like the
rasselin' match it is.
That's a Thursday night, following prayer meetings on
Wednesday night.
I can hardly wait.
November 22
- If Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu don't get
their heads on straight over health care, they can kiss
my big blue butt.
And that's not all.
Look, I see Republican men act selfish and stoopid, it
doesn't curl my hair because I expect it.
I see Democratic men act against the needs of their
country and it hacks me off. But, I know they're
on the take and crave power more than doing the right
thing. Blue dogs are just a shiver looking for a
spine to run up.
But, when I see a Democratic woman act like an
nincompoop, then she has seriously got on the one nerve
I have left. I react horribly.
Mary and Blanche come from two of the poorest states in
this country. What is wrong with them?
Girlfriends, I am going to send a dipstick to Mary and
Blanche so they can do an estrogen level check.
Something is seriously wrong with both of them.
Blanche, Mary, don't make me have to come over there.
November 21
- Uh, I think I need to find a new Chinese
restaurant -----
It's the "some sort" thing that has me worried.
For years my friends and I have been
adding the phrase "between the sheets"
to all of our fortunes from the fortune
cookie. That makes the one you got even
more disturbing!
James
Miz Susan,
Do you think that maybe the
alien is one of those two
Republicans from foreign states
planning a visit to the great
state of Texas to stump for Gov.
Goodhair and the one who won't
retire from her Senate seat? I
dunno about you, but Republicans
are already pretty alien to me;
especially Darth Cheney and
Scarah Palin. If you apply
James' formula of "between the
sheets," and add either Cheney
or Palin, that would be really
scary. Just sayin'
...
Mary in San Antonio
The
alien you were to meet was probably
either the waitstaff or the busboy. Not
necessarily illegal, indeed probably
not, but very possibly alien.
Stan
November 20 - If
y'all remember, I told you about one of the founding
members of our Belles of Heaven Republican Women's Club,
Terese Raia, being the grandmother of the chick who
played a prostitute on the ACORN sting. If you
don't remember, please feel free to
catch up right here. It's the second half of
the story at the bottom.
The short take is that Ms. Raia, who is totally
obsessed with s-e-x (she's against it), was running
around being oddly boastful that her granddaughter fit
the role of a prostitute on a sting operation. Ms.
Raia even had our local Congresscritter issue a formal
press release about how proud he was of it.
I dunno know about you, but if my granddaughter looks
like a prostitute, I'm shutting up about it.
Well, thanks to Judy K, we know that that Ms. Raia's
granddaughter, Hannah Giles, has continued her quest for
fame. Apparently she's just one pit stop short of
putting her kid in a balloon and calling the
authorities.
Here Granddaughter Hannah Giles posing with white
supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain ---
Alert the media, Grandma.
The casting of Ms Giles was dead spot on.
She certainly looks like a professional to
me and may not have had to resort to the
"casting couch" to get that role, and if
family has anything to do with it, she'd
make a good one.
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder
announced that alleged 9/11 mastermind
Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other
terrorism suspects will
be tried in U.S. courts in New York
City, which has prompted outrageousreactions from
conservative politicians and pundits.
One of the most extreme reactions came
last night during an exchange between
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Fox News
Host Neil Cavuto. When Cavuto questioned
Gohmert about whether we should try 9/11
terror suspects in New York City, the
Texas congressman “joked” that Democrats
who support bringing the alleged terror
conspirators there for trial are hoping
for another terrorist attack so they can
“create
a new jobs bill” to rebuild the
city:
GOHMERT: You’ve
got millions of New Yorkers that
would be put at risk [by trying
Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York
City] … Unless they’re
trying to create a new jobs bill by
allowing terrorism back in New York,
this is insane. And even
that would be insane.
“GOHMERT: You’ve got millions of New
Yorkers that would be put at risk
[by trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in
New York City]”
Millions will be at risk by holding
a trial, he says. A trial that
will probably be much like those
held for the other dozens of Islamic
fanatics now in the long-term
custody of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons.
The only logical conclusion to be
drawn from Rep. Gohmert’s argument
is that we have lost. Fanatical
Islamic fundamentalists are
apparently Supermen, capable of
overpowering the massive law
enforcement capabilities we have in
this country.
All is lost. Islamic fundamentalism
won. A Republican congressman just
told us so.
Dennis
Dear Susan,
Those terrorists are not just
ordinary people -- they have super
powers which are activated by the
mere act of crossing the border and
setting foot on the ground in the
U.S. of A. Why else would the
Republicans be so worried about
having them housed in a maximum
security prison or confined in a NYC
lockup while being tried?
What makes it so absolutely
insane is that if one of them were
placed in the general population of
an ordinary federal prison like the
one down the road in Lewisburg, he
would be treated so poorly by the
rest of the inmates that being
contaminated by contact with the
sweat of a camel would be considered
a pleasure by comparison.
Don A in Pennsyltucky.
November 19 - Our
friend Mike says that a very brave soul has read Sarah
Palin's book for us so we don't have to.
I appreciate that. I do. (Momma, do not
click this link. It has some bad words in it.)
And our friend USexpat sent art with the comment
The Second
Edition of "Going Rouge - An American
Lie" was released this afternoon.
Palin's ghost writer insisted on having
cover credit this go-round.
And Kellybee adds this bumper sticker ---
November 19
- Well, this is kinda fun in a hippie kinda way.
Come to find out, Bubba and I have been
living in sin. In their Super DeLux Brand
Christian zeal to ban gay marriage, it appears that the
rightwing in Texas has banned all marriages.
Texans: Are you
really married?
Maybe not.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky,
a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for
attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a
2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay
marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of
all marriages in the state.
We're gonna see if the hoochy-koochy is any better now
that we know we're doing it sinfully.
I pondered on sending letters to all our local steeple
people informing them that there will be no sparkin' in
their households until this matter is settled. It
was then that Thelma reminded me that the steeple people
don't spark at home. At all.
Dear Susan,
I am sorry to hear that you and Bubba are
living in sin thanks to the bright lights in
the Texas GOP. I hope you look at the good
side of this. It is irrefutable proof that
when God made people he made the Republicans
last, and was clearly low on brains at the
time.
Does this make all their young'uns
illegitimate and unable to enter a church?
Love your work,
Tim Strong
I'm kinda
worried about you and Bubba livin' in sin...
think of the tragic effects on Little
Bubba! He'll be scarred for life (once he
stops laughing). Maybe you should slip down
to Coahuila and regularize the situation.
After all, even folks of the same gender can
get married there.
November 18
- You poor folks from foreign states are going to
miss a ringside seat for a heckuva battle royal. I
think we even get to be in the ring with them for this
fight.
Darth Cheney and
Sarah Palin are fighting out over who is going to be
Governor of Texas.
And it looks like this ---
"We Westerners know the
difference between a real talker and the real deal,"
the former vice president said. "And when it comes
to being conservative, Kay Bailey Hutchison is the
real deal."
And in the other
corner ---
Last
February, Palin endorsed Perry against Hutchison.
She singled out his opposition to abortion rights
and the federal financial bailout. Palin called him
"a true conservative," in a letter the Perry camp
mailed to 10,500 members of the Texas Federation of
Republican Women.
So we get to see the blood fest over what's a TRUE
conservative: dangerously selfish and hateful or
proudly and goofily dumb. Those appear to be only
choices when it comes to defining conservative.
No, seriously, think about it. You've got Sarah
Palin and Dick Cheney fighting over the remnants of the
Republican Party. Damn, that's kinda sad.
You get to hide in a bunker or field dress a moose.
And that there is the Republican Party, my friends.
Residents of the C
Street Christian fellowship house will no longer
benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's
owners to avoid paying property taxes.
Previously, the house
-- despite being home to numerous lawmakers -- had
been tax exempt, because it was classified as a
church. That arrangement had allowed the building's
owner, the secretive international Christian
organization The Family, to charge significantly
below market rents to its residents. In recent
year, Senators John Ensign (R-NV), Tom Coburn
(R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jim DeMint (R-SC),
and Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and
Mike Doyle (D-PA) have all reportedly called C
Street home.
A church? A church?
Well, I guess paying taxes and extortion fees is just
asking too much, huh?
The boys of Sigma Epsilon Chi are going to have to pay
their taxes just like everybody else.
(Thanks to Carl up north for the heads-up.)
Susan,
Call me cynical, but I wonder if
those fine Christian politicians
who rented rooms at C Street
made their rental payments to
the "Church" and then deducted
the money as a donation on their
tax returns.
june
Susan,
Snark from Al Kamen's
"In The Loop" column in
today's WaPo:
"It was there
that Coburn, an
obstetrician and
gynecologist, met
with Ensign's friend
and former top aide,
Doug Hampton,
the husband of
Ensign's mistress,
for an emotional
chat about
forgiveness. Coburn
reportedly advised
Ensign to stop the
affair but has said
he would never
reveal the details
of those
discussions, citing
his religious
privilege as an
"ordained deacon"
and
his medical
privilege as
Ensign's OB-GYN.
"
Barbara
November 17 -
Governor Rick Perry
attended our chamber dinner.
Rumor has it that he did not attempt to hump a table leg
or declare war on Washington, DC. So, I suspect
they're calling it a successful evening.
On the other hand, we've had a
rabid skunk problem in the county since he was here.
I'm just saying.
November 17 - I
got an email from E Claire this morning that smacked
right in the middle of something that's been troubling
me for a few days.
Why to
Republicans think combating terror is best achieved
by shouting out their fears and diving for the
fainting couches.
All they've got left is fear itself.
Rudy Guilliani is so damn outspoken about Homeland
Security. Does he think we don't remember he was
the one who tried to get W to appoint his pal,
Bernie Kerick to head up the new agency.
Bernie is now in prison for an extended stay. Why
is anyone listening to Rudy?
EClaire
I wanna tell y'all something.
I live within hiking distance of three prisons and the
county jail. One of these prisons houses the most
violent of the mentally disturbed in the Texas prison
system. Do you realize how dead solid crazy you
have to be to be considered crazy in the Texas justice
system?
These dudes make the Taliban look like a girl scout
troop. We have signs on our highways that say,
"Don't Pick Up Hitchhikers with Chain Saws." Okay,
so maybe I just made up the chainsaw part, but we do
have the hitchhiker warning for those just passing
through.
I have lived here 30 years and I am not afraid.
Heckfire, we're tried mass murders at the county
courthouse, which I can walk to. We even tried
several coyotes whose buddies kept threatening to shoot
the prosecutor, who at that time was Bubba.
You cannot be afraid. But, even if you are, you
don't show it. It's unbecoming and sissified.
We need to codify that into law.
One day get me to tell you the story about seeing a
five foot, 90 pound female deputy bring down a guy the
size of Brewster County without even stopping to plan a
strategy. I looked once and saw that he was intent
on barbequeing a judge. I blinked and the next
thing I saw was that he was face down, cuffed, and had
Deputy Mary standing on his back like she'd scaled a
mountain and was claiming it for the sheriff's
department. She never even pulled her gun.
What is wrong with this country? When did we
become a cistern of sissies?
Look, I think George Bush was a giant idiot when he
said, "Bring it on." That's not courage, that's
showboating and you don't have a right to do that on
behalf of a whole damn country.
There's a difference between showboating and gutting
up, and it's time to gut up. Hell, it's way past
time.
Like Deputy Mary, it's time to do what we do best and
bring that sucker down.
When my friend Barbara showed me that
a guy we admire had tripped the scardy cat cord, I
was heartbroken. Barbara sighed heavily that
Democrat Jim Webb has joined the BOO! crowd. I
know Webb's not a chicken so why is he encouraging
others to be?
If we had a half-way decent district attorney, I'd tell
Holder to send those guys down here for us to try.
We ain't scared. Hell, we've faced down Ross
Perot, Henry Lee Lucas and Rick Perry. Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed ain't no championship rodeo for a riding
cowboy.
This is America, dammit. Gut the heck up and quit
letting politicians control with fear.
And just one more question.
Why is it that it's the Super DeLux Brand Christians
who are the most afraid?
I know for a fact that courage is not the absence of
fear but the presence of faith.
Christians, my patootie. They are just crybabies.
Thank you for turning
in the manuscript so quickly. I thought only Stephen
King could crank out 400 pages in four months!
Seriously, there’s some terrific material here, and
all of us at Harper Collins are thrilled to be
publishing your life story.
Before we move ahead,
the fact-checking department has asked me to pass
along a few notes and comments that might require
some revisions on your part.
Eric Clapton
spells his last name with a C. More significant,
his publicists tell us you were not the
inspiration for “Layla” and that he doesn’t
recall ever having an affair with you. Is it
possible you’ve got him confused with another
rock star?
Hiaasen fights developers in South Florida. His
books are raw, nasty, violent, and hysterically funny.
I am absolutely in love with some of his characters.
Give yourself a treat and
read his take on Sarah Palin.
November 16
- Well, the Republican Party built a monster in
their basement and now it's threatening to come upstairs
to have dinner with the family.
And, the family is the dinner.
The
Teabaggers are eating the Republican Party.
Canyon Clowdus thinks
Americans “have less freedom and pay more taxes than
ever.”
“We need more John Wayne
and Jesus in Washington,” the Marble Falls rancher
and businessman declares.
Clowdus is just the kind
of grass-roots activist that national Republican
leaders sought to fire up in the Tea Party movement
that has spread across Texas in energetic rallies
and heated town hall confrontations. Now, the
40-year-old Army veteran is seeking to unseat an
incumbent congressman whom he calls a profligate
spender.
Just one problem:
Clowdus, an avid Tea Party loyalist, is running in
the Republican primary against a Republican
incumbent, Rep. Mike Conaway of Midland.
More John Wayne and Jesus? I guess Ole Clowdus
thought the only problem with George Bush was that he
wasn't plenty enough stubborn and religious. Pour
some more kerosene on that forest fire and everything'll
be jim dandy, huh?
Next thing you know, the Republicans, a none-too-bright
bunch, is thinking that poking a stick at the monster is
the wise thing to do ---
At this point,
Republican Party officials don't seem too concerned.
“I don't get the feeling
that those particular candidacies are going to have
a great effect,” says Bryan Preston, director of
communications for the Texas Republican Party.
That's about a minus seven on the smart meter.
That's gonna rile up Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and
they're gonna come feed the monster spinach and Olive
Oyl.
This might be just a guess on my part, but it seems to
me that these teabagger people are upset because they
feel unimportant and unappreciated. Yeah, tell a
bunch of old white men and the Dorcas Sunday School
Class at Greater Mount Zion and Utopia Independent
Missionary Baptist Church that they don't matter and,
Honey, you got yourself not only a monster, but a
monster with a splittin' headache and a sore paw.
This ain't gonna be pretty.
It is, however, gonna be fun.
By the way, in keeping with today's theme of Don't Piss
Off The Wrong People, a friend reminded me of a great
homemade road sign right outside one of my favorite
Texas towns, Alpine. Alpine is 250 miles from any
place with a name.
If that ain't a message to the Republican Party from the
Teabaggers, I don't know what is.
Hi, Susan,
Perhaps the first act of this Clowdus chap,
if elected, might be to place Jesus and John
Wayne as the new wedding cake topper at the
Texas Capitol building?
Regards,
Eileen
Susan,
I just read a lot of those
comments of the Teabaggers
in the Chronicle.. Girl,
those people are ten ways of
crazy. They deny it, but
they sure sound like
Republicans to me. To prove
they're not, they'll have to
retool their signage and
learn to spell (I can tell a
typo from a misspelling).
They remind me of some of
those crazy political groups
in Germany in the early
1930's I've read a lot
about. John Wayne was a
cowboy actor and Jesus would
never approve of what
they're doing, so I don't
know what in hades that man
Clowdus is thinking. I bet
he gets agricultural
subsidies!
june
Hello Susan!
Don't you just love how the Tea
Partiers are going after the
Republicants? With any luck, we'll
see more Democrats elected since the
Tea Party candidates will be
siphoning off votes from the
Republicants. And Clowdus thinks we
need more John Wayne and Jesus?
Whatever happened to separation of
church and state? Oh, right...George
Dubya Bush was selected president
and the right wing fundamentalists
went even loonier.
And I have to agree with June about
the way the tea partiers misspell
words. The link below is for a
picture taken at one of the tea
parties (not sure which one), and
not only did the sign carrier
misspell "information," but if you
look really closely at the God Bless
America on the sign, it actually
says "God Bless Amercia." Maybe
that's the country they're always
shouting that they want back.
Anyway,
here's the link
Mary in San Antonio, where the temp
has dropped so much today that I'd
be turning blue if I already wasn't
November 15
- Thank you, Nick Anderson (and Mike for sending it)
--
Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) will announce she is
delaying her resignation from the Senate so that she
can continue to represent Texas in the Senate while
pursuing the Republican nomination for governor in
the Lone Star state.
She will forever be known as She Who Got Whooped By Boy
Fruitcake.
November 13 -
Well, sure, now that Michael Steele has already
purchased supplemental abortion insurance --
"The
Republican National Committee’s health insurance
plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the
party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on
innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC
purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents
for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers
elective abortion."
Which proves once and for all: this ain't about
abortion, it's about riling up the wackos, hatemongers,
and flat earthers.
I’m sure the
right is already screaming that this is just
another example of the media “gotcha game.”
And...can’t find absolute confirmation, but
word is that Focus on the Family also had
abortion-enabling insurance.
Eileen
“…word
is that Focus on the Family also had
abortion-enabling insurance.”
People who work for Focus on the Family
had sex? With other people?
Dennis
Enjoy!
Wanda
November 13 -
Okay, y'all, it is getting kinda scary. Governor
Rick Perry has moved from Fox News Nuts to
Overnight Talk
Radio Nuts.
Apparently Rick Perry has come to believe that Barack
Obama Hisownself is dumping illegal aliens in Texas.
No,
I'm serious as a heart attack.
Texas GOP Gov. Rick
Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of
"punishing" Texas and being "hell-bent" on turning
the United States into a socialist country. [...]
Perry ... accused the
Obama administration of intentionally dumping
illegal immigrants from other western states in
Texas, recalling a conversation he had with local
officials notifying him that illegal aliens that
were caught in Nogales, Arizona were being dropped
off by federal authorities in Presidio, Texas.
I think Rick is envisioning Obama driving a pick up
truck load of Mexicans every night in the cover of
darkness from Arizona to South Texas, obviously taking
the scenic route for their viewing pleasure, just for
his desired goal of being a damn socialist or pissin'
off Rick Perry, whichever comes first.
Verdelia says that this is all very entertaining since
Texas has a weak form of Governor to start with.
"Holy Guacamole," she says, "if George Bush could do it,
it don't take much to be Governor."
My money says that he's gonna get crazier and crazier
as the election gets along. Hell, he'll probably
get breast implants, shoot a moose, and French kiss
Glenn Beck before it's all over with. Conservative
credentials come at a price now-a-days.
November 13
- We get emails with good news about my vote last
year ---
Looks like the Pentagon boys who thought
leaking would corner the President just
found out what it's like to run into the
unrollable.
McCrystal may be about to do a reenactment
of McArthur with Obama doing a tall version
of Truman. None of the above is the option
none of them thought he would think of. Too
damn bad.
Looks like he regards the troops as American
people who have been given eight years of
guano loco assignments. Obama wants them to
be able to not be pawns in somebody's macho
posing.
Good on him.
The sudden
resignation of Lou Dobbs from CNN might have
surprised a lot of his supporters, but it was less
of a shock to some of his closest business
associates. Dobbs, multiple sources have told
AllYourTV.com, has been quietly testing the waters
for a presidential run in 2012.
Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs, and Mike Huckabee.
Okay, you know all those people who think the world is
going to end in 2012? This is why. No,
seriously. That's the Psychotic Trifecta that will
cause the Seventh Seal to be opened. I know about
these things. Look it up.
Susan,
My prediction on Lou Dobbs:
He will appear as a regular on Fox News
within a week or two. He disappeared from
CNN as suddenly as Glenn Beck and Bill (
can't remember his last name and was too
good looking for his own good but was well
aware of his appeal to women) were given
their own program hours on Fox within a few
days. Can you imagine the hoopla from Fox
running their own candidate (or candidates)
for President? Dobbs & Beck Republican
Candidates.
Marsha
November 12 - I
think I've explained her before that I am a member of
Bimbos Anonymous. It's a 14 step program - oh
yeah, 12 steps aren't near enough to correct Bimboism -
that begins with: 1. I am powerless over the lazy
intellect of being a bimbo.
It is powerful easy to be a bimbo. And it looks
so danged attractive to be so intellectually lazy and
emotionally fragile.
I think a bunch of us recovering bimbos need to go do
an intervention on
Carrie Prejean.
Carrie, Honey, when you don't get your way, it makes
all hooter toters look bad for you to take off your
microphone, sit like a lump on a log, and call someone's
behavior inappropriate. Especially Larry King's.
Cripes, what the heck is wrong with you?
Girl, get a dipstick and measure your estrogen level.
I think you're about a quart low.
And, Girl, your heroes, Sarah and Michelle can use an
intervention, too. They can dish it out, but the
sure can't take it.
Not all Republicans are bimbos. But all bimbos
sure the hell are Republican.
Oh Susan,
Did you see the part where Carrie-Lou said
she was being silenced because she is a
conservative Christian woman who knows
policy, just like Sarah Palin and Michelle
Bachmann. I can't remember if this was
before or after news of her multiple sex
tapes was released..........hmmm.
I expect many uses of 'inappropriate' from
you in the next few days.
If she and Mark Sanford could get together I
would swoon and never, ever ask for anything
else from the universe! He could cry and
she could smile and tell him he was being
inappropriate..........sigh
Sybil
November 12
- Well, I ordered my Thanksgiving wardrobe today ---
November 11
- I not only have cool and generous friends, I have
smart friends, and they can use the email.
Dear Susan,
A couple of interesting items crossed my
path courtesy of the Warshington Post. The
first was Mr. E.J.Dionne's discussion of the
ballot questions in Maine and Washington
(state of) where so-called Taxpayer Bill of
Rights measures were roundly defeated which
he interprets as support for government as a
force for good in the 19th century liberal
tradition. The other was the neologism
which makes "Scozzafava" into a verb
describing what happens when the
neo-ultra-con-tea-bagger crowd decides to
put their own candidate up against a
not-conservative-enough Republican.
Now I've long been of the opinion that
drawing conclusions about the mood of the
nation on the basis of a few state and local
elections is right up there with examining
the entrails of a goat when it comes to
predicting what's going to happen in the
future. The person doing the divination
generally seems to draw whatever conclusion
suits their fancy at the moment. This is
just another version of what Doug Smith used
to say about how "any pretext will serve as
long as it can be used to justify your
intentions." So I'm not one to give a lot
of credence to either one of the
aforementioned electoral results. MY
favorite story from the recent elections is
the one where the Monty Python people are
considering suing the governor-elect of New
Jersey for copyright infringement.
Don A in Pennsyltucky home of the
almost-2-in-a-row World Series almost
Champions and the perpetual also-ran Pirates
who exist to make the Astros look good.
Dear Ms.
Susan,
I was at the Rice v. Navy game last month to
see Pete Olson grammstanding over the moon
rock that the Kennedy family donated to the
university. I heard him promise to support
NASA so that he could come back and give
Rice a mars rock someday.
Tonight I was catching up on The Daily Show
and saw video of Michelle Bachmann's tea
party on the Capitol steps last week, the
one with the big picture of stacked
holocaust victims labeled "national
socialist
health care." Pete Olson was there too,
pandering to Dick Armey's stooges.
This got me wondering, are we going to be
stuck with Olson for twenty years like we
were with DeLay? Who have we got to run
against him? I like Richard Morrison, but
question whether he can win. Besides,
Fort Bend needs him on the Commissioner's
Court. Who else is out there for us? I can't
see running Nick Lampson again, there's too
many republicans in the Democratic Party
already. Is Ginny Matranga rested
and ready?
Regards,
Charly Hoarse
November 11 - It
is a scientific fact that I have the coolest friends on
earth. And the most generous ones, too.
She Who Cannot Be Named presented me with this upscale
fashionista formal footwear at lunch today.
Today
I've decided to eschew my usual irreverent
contributions to KMBBB and exhort its
readers to remember that today is Veterans
Day.
It's been
more than 30 years since I enlisted in the
United States Air Force; a lot of water has
passed beneath the ol' Kellybee Bridge since
then, but I still recall the days when I
wore that green uniform with blue stripes
just like it was last week. I acquired
skills that still use to this day, saw a
huge chunk of the world, and made
friendships that are going strong decades
later.
Funny, I
didn't think much about "sacrifice" back
then, and while I can't speak for all those
who've worn a uniform of the Armed Forces, I
suspect most past and present servicemen and
servicewomen don't spend much time dwelling
on things like that...we were (and are) too
busy doing our duty.
To all
the Flyboys, Grunts, Leathernecks, Swabbos
and Coasties out there, former and
present...thank you!
"Be
alert to give service. What counts a great
deal in life is what we do for others"
-ANONYMOUS
Kellybee
And I
would like to thank my two favorite veterans ---
November 10 - I've
often said that if I had really done all the things that
local rumors have accused me of doing, I'd be a much
happier woman.
One friend suggested that I should go ahead and
misbehave because I'm gonna get accused of it anyway.
There's some great wisdom in that.
Olympia Snowe should have listened to that wisdom.
She might as well vote her conscience on health care
and run as Democrat next year because
Republicans are going to primary her anyway.
A new survey of Maine
from
Public Policy Polling (D) has some dire news for
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), with the moderate
Republican potentially losing her 2012 Republican
primary against a generic conservative challenger --
and by a landslide, no less.
The numbers:
Conservative challenger 59%, Snowe 31%, with a ±4.8%
margin of error. It is of course a long way from the
idea of a generic conservative challenger to having
an actual candidate, but the potential for success
by just such an insurgent is certainly there.
Olympia, do the right thing and I'll send you money to
help you get elected as a Democrat. I've got
friends who will, too.
U.S. Rep. Michael
Conaway of Midland was among 16 Texas Republicans
who sailed to renomination last year, unopposed in
their party's March primary.
But in March, Conaway
looks to be among half a dozen members of the
state's GOP caucus, including Rep. Michael McCaul of
Austin, facing challenges from people inspired to
run, in part, by tea party rallies.
They are going to primary each other. Helluva
plan, Boys! That is one bright light idea if I do
say so myself.
Take anyone in your party who isn't a bat crap crazy
and defeat them in the primary. Make your party
"pure" and then try to win in November with 25% of the
vote.
Far be it from me to remind the Republicans that's what
they did in the the New York 23rd and the result gave
Nancy Pelosi another much needed vote for health care
reform.
Oh, this is going to be a fun election season.
November 9 -
So I spent an odd amount of time this weekend planning
for a damn hurricane. It's November. There's
a damn hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
That creeped me out. Seriously.
I've planted my pansies already and I've never had to
worry about protecting my pansies from a damn hurricane.
I visited my friend El Jefe Bob over at
The Daily Hurricane,
thinking maybe he punched a hole in the cosmic karma by
naming his site in a predictive fashion, but he was
silent on hurricane this weekend, unless you count the
hoot between Kos and Tancredo, which you won't want
to miss.
Well, my pansies will be fine, but Florida is gonna get
a lot of rain. The Gulf had cooled down to enough
to keep that sucker from forming up good. Phew!
On a more frightening than a hurricane note, there's
Phil Gram.
Alfredo sent us news of this
little movie due out soon. It seems that Gramm
is the pit boss in the American Casino.
You want a villain, a
bad guy you can blame for the financial crisis
that’s torn a hole in the American economy? The
gripping new documentary American Casino—just
released on DVD like
to nominate Phil Gramm.
The opening credits
have just stopped rolling when Gramm, the former
Texas senator who chaired the Senate Banking
Committee for five years, makes his brief appearance
in the film. “This is a mental recession,” Gramm
says, in footage taken from his 2008 video interview
with the Washington Times. And then, a
moment or two later, comes the now infamous kicker:
“We’ve sort of become a nation of whiners.”
Okay, get the popcorn. Phil Gramm is the man I
love to hate.
I would
like to show Phil Gramm what real
whining is by kicking his big butt
across the country and back again. The
man makes me crazy!!!
Carol
November 8 -
Okay, Guys, I watched a lot of the House debate on
health care today and it just hacked me off.
And, Bubba, God love him, was screaming plays at the
Democrats on tv like other guys scream at the refs or
coaches during the big game. I have come to
believe that Bubba hates Blue Dogs worse than he hates
Republicans. I suspect that's because at least
Republicans will stand and face you when they're gonna
hurt you, but Blue Dogs will sneak up and stab you in
the back. Bubba has had some personal experience
in that area.
I think I might agree with Bubba about the Blue Dogs.
I think Blue Dogs are as worthless as a four card flush.
But, overall, I had a different take on the session
yesterday. Every time I saw a white boy Republican
take the speaker's podium and almost spit out the words
"the Pelosi health care plan" or occasionally "the Obama
health care plan," it reminded me what this debate was
really about.
It was about the white boys having to share some of
their power. This was not about health care or
America's future. This was about white boys and
their power.
So, just to make themselves feel better, they just had
to get between a woman and her doctor. They added
an amendment that hurts women.
I think they're a bunch of poopie del pollos.
The only Republican who voted for the
measure said it was a "decision of
conscience". I seldom see the words
Republican and conscience used in the same
sentence. I love the ad on Huffpo that
says, "Being a woman is not a pre-existing
condition." I wish Republicans and Blue
Dogs understood that fact.
Don't
worry. God will take notice of them, the
blue dogs and the republicans and all those
that hate women.
SHE will take care of them.
It is almost 80 on our deck and sunny. I
still have a hanging basket full of flowers.
And I live 20 miles south of the Canadian
border.
Diane
Susan,
Pete Sessions
disagrees with Sam. He said yesterday
that women ARE a pre-existing condition,
because they're different and have all that
stuff that he doesn't want to know about and
it scares him. Now if they had simple
plumbing like a man he would be more
comfortable with that.
Did any
Republicans disagree? Maybe even one of
the 17 Republican congresspersons? ( At
this point I would have a hard time
calling them congresswomen)
I guess
their health care doesn't discriminate
like normal people's plans do.
Brian
Good
morning..
Perhaps we should remove Viagra from
Congress's drug program, until they
remove the Stupak amendment.
Carl
Dear
Susan,
The Stupak rule only allows abortion in
the event the pregnancy is the result of
rape or incest or life of mother. This
only proves that they are not concerned
with the baby, but only with punishing
females. If they consider abortion
killing babies, why is it alright to
kill them if they were conceived by rape
or incest?
It is time we wimmin fight fire with
fire. I am enlisting all pro-choice men
and women to demand that no federal
funds can be used "Erection Pumps", or
"Erection Enhancements", or "Impotence
Drugs" and "Treatments for Erectile
Dysfunction"
What do you want to bet that at least
half of the anti-choice men are on at
least one of those ?
Wanda
November 6 - And for
your Friday entertainment, this is an actual picture
taken of an actual car on an actual parking lot in
Richmond, Texas, yesterday afternoon, actually ---
Need a close-up?
Fab, Inc?
Meh, not so much.
By the way, the old guy driving it was wearing Bermuda
shorts and knee-high black socks. I don't think it
was actually Tom DeLay, but I could be wrong.
Susan,
I read your blog regularly and gotta admit
that you often make me smile.
Don’t the words FAB and DELAY cancel each
other out?
Sincerely
Eileen
November 6 -
On a rare personal note, congratulations to Lil' Bubba,
who is now Lil' Bubba, Attorney at Law.
On the downside, I now have to admit the fact that I
gave birth to a writ twit.
On the upside, don't mess with me. Seriously,
don't mess with me.
(The cake is from Kroger's Grocery Store - the only
bakery in town open at 7:00 at night, where you can drop
by a pick up a cake on your way to a celebration dinner.
I didn't say a good cake, I just said a cake.)
November 5 -
Steven just emailed to remind me about
T.J.
Huntley, the handsome official notary public, who
was running for mayor of Houston.
It's unlike me to forget some like T.J. - especially
his
amazing photo in his War on Crime section.
T.J. believes in the Bible when it comes to abortion,
but the US Constitution when it comes to guns. I
call it Pick and Lose politics.
Since, according to T.J., okay I can't help myself -
one last
photo, Houston is wildly liberal, so he withdrew
from the race and threw his full support behind Roy
Morales. Roy came in dead last. I suspect he
would have come in worse without T.J.'s endorsement.
So here's to T.J. - living proof that a cool website
and a drunk hairdresser can't win a political office in
Houston.
Susan,
I must admit, this TJ Huntley character
fascinates me...I mean, isn't it just THE
perfect name for one of those TV cop shows
from the '80s or '90s?
Kellybee
Is it just me or in this
picture, does he look like the bastard
child of Tom DeLay? Seriously.
Also, I don’t get the
“handsome” thing. He’s dressed
well, but…
David
November 5 - We get
email to rev up your thinkin' mechanism --
Now,
read this and tell me how we allow
referendums to decide if gay people can
marry each other. This is from our
government:
Democracies understand that protecting
the rights of minorities to uphold
cultural identity, social practices,
individual consciences, and religious
activities is one of their primary
tasks.
If
somebody could please flesh out the case for
marriage only being between a man and a
woman a bit more, I might have respect for
the argument. Otherwise I can only see it
as discrimination.
Here's a
wacky 2-part idea that would take care of
everybody:
1. We
let gay people get married
2. If you
aren't gay, don't get gay married
Now what's
for lunch?
John
“1. We let gay people get married.
2. If you aren't gay, don't get gay
married”
How could the
argument be any more obvious? I apply the same
standard to abortion, as in “if you are opposed
to it, don’t have one.” Aside from that, the old
“mind your own business” answer seems to fit
quite well.
You’d think
conservatives, people who are always up in arms
about an intrusive, all-powerful government,
would kinda get that point. But they don’t.
Dennis
Oh, yes,
letting the electorate decide who should
have civil rights is a great idea.
Wonder what year Jim Crow would have
been struck down in Mississippi if it
had been left to the voters??? Don’t we
have something called the Bill of Rights
to protect minorities? I can’t wait for
this one to make its way to the Supreme
Court and listen to the reasoning of
those guys (think I know how the gals
would rule). Since they are not
“activist judges” surely they will rule
on the side of the Constitution … wanna’
bet?
Deborah
Susan,
These wags in California have a
new "Rescue Marriage" act that
they are working on to get on
the ballot as a referendum:
outlawing DIVORCE in California,
no less.
Dennis is so correct about the
conservies. For all they scream
about wanting smaller government, it
all boils down to: "'We don't want
an overbearing, intrusive
government.....except when we do."
Lefty
November 5 -
It's nice to know that I'm a member of a socialist
organization hell bent on destroying America and killing
grandma.
The House is steaming
toward a historic vote on President Barack Obama's
remake of the U.S. health care system, with
Democratic leaders increasingly confident and the
powerful seniors' lobby AARP about to get on board.
A debate and vote are
expected Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion bill
that would extend coverage to 96 percent of
Americans, require employers to insure their
employees and bar such insurance company practices
as dropping coverage for sick people.
Yes sireee, still a hippie after all these years.
So, Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann, I just want you to
know I'm a card-carrying member of a commie
organization.
Do y'all suppose that Glenn and Michelle are two people
who say NO so often that they have extras N's in their
names just to remind themselves?
Dear Susan,
I am 51 and have avoided joining AARP
- "I am not that old" I keep telling
myself. I am joining this commie group
today!
CL
Dear Fellow Commie,
I joined this organization when I
was 45 and became (get this) a
“Junior member” of the AARP . One
of the best lines I heard was from a
comedian who proposed that we give
them the job of finding Osama Bin
Laden “the AARP finds anybody over
50” he said makes sense to me.
Carol
Susan,
I'm a
proud 20-year member of
that commie
organization, AARP.
That makes me 70, so
what, when I feel and
some say look and act
much younger. Everyone
should have the same
medical benefits I
have. I get real
disgusted with these
older people who feel
that are "special" and
entitled to special
benefits while others do
without, and I have, on
occasion, told a couple
of geezers they aren't
entitled to anything
special just because
they are lucky enough to
live beyond 65. Those
who think there
shouldn't be
"socialistic" medical
coverage for all should
give up their Medicare
and Social Security
because they've probably
already received way
more than they put in.
Keep
up the good work.
june
Susan,
Well now, I need to say, that if
AARP is endorsing health insurance
reform, I need to get way cynical
here. Being largely an insurance
organization with a fancy name
(think Bush) they sold folks down
the river with big Pharma and arm
twisting in the Congress to prohibit
government being able to negotiate
prices for medications/drugs for
people. I dropped my membership as
did lots of others. If the Obama
administration keeps the bad deal
they made with Phrama, maybe its one
reason why AARP likes this reform.
Just saying...........
I believe the man in charge of AARP
at the time is now heading GM or
something like that. I don't have
that info down pat, but I saw him at
the hearings ........ Nardelli I
think. He screws up AARP and gets
another CEO job!! Had the nerve to
call people who dropped to find out
why they dropped, in mass!
November 4 - Well,
goodness sake. Sarah Palin came to town and
destroyed the Republican Party in order to save the
Republican Party.
Ya think we could hire her to do that in Texas?
A Democrat
running in a historically Republican stronghold won
a closely watched special congressional election in
northern New York state, capitalizing on a split
that emerged between moderates and conservatives for
control of the Republican Party.
It appears that Sarah Palin and Glen Beck can win
battles but lose the war. I dunno about you, but
I'm rooting for them!
Susan,
Please, let's hire Palin to come and destroy
the Republicant party here in Texas. Heck,
with any luck, she'll do it when she comes
to stump for Gov. Goodhair. And with Darth
Cheney stumping for Kay, hopefully we will
see the GOP implode. We can only hope...
I found it rather amusing that the so-called
pundits seem to think that the GOP wins in
the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New
Jersey are a referendum on Obama and his
administration, yet they totally ignore the
Democratic congressional wins in CA -10 and
NY-23, which to me are much more important
in a national sense. After all, governors
cannot vote on federal legislation and
congressmen can and will. And both Congress
critters are in favor of single payer or
public option in health insurance reform.
The really ironic part part of NY-23 is that
Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh's support of the
Conservative Party candidate caused the
voters in that district to elect the first
Democratic congress critter since the Civil
War. Maybe with their support, we can get a
Democratic governor for the next 100 years
or so.
From blue San Antonio,
Mary
November 4 -
Momma's candidates in Houston did well last night.
Momma has a knack for picking winners. She'll be
scampering back to the polls for the run-off.
I know some of the people who ran Peter Brown's
disastrous mayoral campaign. Brown is a good guy
but his campaign was run by some folks with a sterling
reputation for getting the fewest votes for the most
amount of money. I mean, I'm no fancy pants
political consultant, but I think that's backwards.
Peter Brown spent a gazillion dollars and only got
3,500 more votes than Roy Morales, who spent the change
he found in his couch and frontseat car console.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out how these
consultants keep getting hired. I guess they know
which hands to grease and butts to kiss. I haven't
learned that lesson yet.
November 3 - The
Texas Tribune - let's hope it lives up to its promise. Bookmark it
and check it.
November 3 - Zen
Zheng over at the Houston Chronicle got a handle on our
Republican County Commissioner Andy Meyers, the
greediest man in a 4 zip code area. It's true;
look it up.
It seems that the county wants to make some rules
about reimbursements. Andy Meyers loves him
some reimbursements.
If you add up what he pays himself for mileage from his
campaign account and what he submits for the county to
reimburse him in mileage, it becomes clear that Andy
drives from here to Italy twice a month. In a
truck bought by his campaign funds, no less.
Andy also likes to eat on your dime. I guess it's
getting to be time for me to request his reimbursements
again. We pay for his lunch so often that we
should qualify for a free Happy Meal each week.
But the big new in Zen's article is Andy's loophole
hunt in the the Texas ethics rules. Andy belongs
to an organization that fights to keep caps off of
homeowner's taxes, thereby giving him a bigger pool of
our money to request reimbursements for himself.
Andy wants this group to be able to provide him with
reimbursements, too. The sneaky part about this is
that this would be unreportable. We would have no
idea how much money and fancy dinners they are giving
Andy to fight against our own interests.
That's a cause only a rightwing Republican could love!
Somebody better start sewing Andy a glittery costume
because it's just a matter of time before he's on
Dancing with the Stars!
November 3 -
If there's anything a Texan hates, it's having to
give up knighthood.
Disgraced
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is being stripped
of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua
and Barbuda, the head of the government panel that
approves the awards said Monday.
The National Honors
Committee voted unanimously to revoke Stanford's
title for embarrassing the nation by running an
alleged Ponzi scheme out of his Antigua-based
offshore bank, Chairwoman Jacqui Quinn-Leandro said.
Now his cellmate, Big Cooter, can drop the whole Sir
thing. I'm sure that's a relief to Cooter because
all that bowing was getting tiresome.
HOT DAWG! Another "extinguished" Texan!
Mickey
November 2 -
Other than a few small money donations, I stay out
of Houston politics. I live in Fort Bend. I know
how I hate it when outsiders come here and insert
themselves in our elections, so I stay clear of theirs.
I think it's just good manners.
However, Momma lives in Houston and there are four
people she voted for with pride and honor -
Annise Parker,
Lane Lewis,
Ronald Green,
and Sue Lovell.
Good folks, all.
So, don't take it from me because I don't live there -
take it from Momma.
November 1 -
There's lots of stuff that I don't understand about
Republicans but this one floated to the top today.
Our Republican State Representative John Zerwas sent
out this flier. Click the little one to get the
big one.
It appears that John and his buddy Bill Callegari are
having themselves a townhall "to focus on how 'big
government' efforts have failed in Washington and
California and what those failures could mean to Texas
and the local area."
Pull in on them reins and holler whoa, Big John Zee.
Doesn't California have a giant ole Republican
Governor? And haven't Republicans been totally in
charge of Washington DeeCee for 8 years?
Hey, Captain Slowpoke, it was conservative Republicans who
bankrupted the government. Don't be acting like
somebody else did it when you weren't looking.
Don't be standing around clueless about what happened.
When we had big government, the economy was booming and
everything was dandy. Then you boys showed up and
gutted America while claiming that you were just trying
to hate homosexuals and protect unborn babies.
And, Honey, in case you haven't noticed, Republicans
have been in power in Texas for two decades. Y'all
screwed that up, too.
This whole deal is especially disappointing to me
because I thought John Zee was the least objectionable
Republican in Fort Bend. I think he was when he
got elected, but they've taken his brain and replaced it
with sheep dip.
John Zee, big guvmint ain't the problem. Fibbing,
greedy, and irresponsible Republicans are the problem.
Wake up, John, before they steal your manliness and feed
it to Dick Cheney for breakfast. That comes next,
ya know. Then ya end up in an airport bathroom
taping your foot. It ain't pretty.
I'm just saying.
You have to wonder if Republicans have
the slightest idea of what they are
talking about. Zerwas warns of “big
government” in Texas, where we in fact
operate with a minimalist, small budget
government. I’m betting Zerwas doesn’t
know – and sure as hell doesn’t want his
constituents to realize – that Texas
citizens pay the lowest per capita tax
burden of any of the fifty states. Big
government? Where?
Dennis
Welcome to the website formerly known as The World's Most
Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is
Susan DuQuesnay Bankston.
I live in Richmond, Texas, in heart of Tom DeLay's old
district. It's crazy here. No, seriously, it's
triple z crazzzy.
I used to be an independent voter, but that all changed when
I got to know a few local Republicans. They are meaner
than 10 acres of snakes and have the ethical compass of a
bank robber.
So, I
decided that they could just Kiss My Big Blue Butt.
A lot of
what I post here has to do with local politics, but you
probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't
a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. I've
been doing this since 1992, so I'm used to it even if you
ain't.
Email me
and I'll find a place to put it if I like it.
The Dick Cheney who came within a six months and two
undisclosed locations of totally destroying this
country's economy. Why don't we just forgo an
election and gleefully give the country to Dick's
buddies at Halliburton? Now, boy howdy, there's an
idea that Newsweek can get behind. 
standing
over him holding a golf club at 2:30 in the a.m., and
the back story is that she heard him crash into a fire
plug and came running out and smashed in the back window
of his Cadillac with a golf club to get him out, uh, I'm
just warning that there wouldn't be a soul in four zip
codes
Rumor has it that he did not attempt to hump a table leg
or declare war on Washington, DC. So, I suspect
they're calling it a successful evening. 
Heckfire, we're tried mass murders at the county
courthouse, which I can walk to. We even tried
several coyotes whose buddies kept threatening to shoot
the prosecutor, who at that time was Bubba. 
Verdelia says that this is all very entertaining since
Texas has a weak form of Governor to start with.
"Holy Guacamole," she says, "if George Bush could do it,
it don't take much to be Governor." 
And, Bubba, God love him, was screaming plays at the
Democrats on tv like other guys scream at the refs or
coaches during the big game. I have come to
believe that Bubba hates Blue Dogs worse than he hates
Republicans. I suspect that's because at least
Republicans will stand and face you when they're gonna
hurt you, but Blue Dogs will sneak up and stab you in
the back. Bubba has had some personal experience
in that area.
T.J. believes in the Bible when it comes to abortion,
but the US Constitution when it comes to guns. I
call it Pick and Lose politics. 
Ya think we could hire her to do that in Texas?
If you add up what he pays himself for mileage from his
campaign account and what he submits for the county to
reimburse him in mileage, it becomes clear that Andy
drives from here to Italy twice a month. In a
truck bought by his campaign funds, no less.
Disgraced
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is being stripped
of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua
and Barbuda, the head of the government panel that
approves the awards said Monday. 