And for excellence is new reporting goes this …

Anthony Weiner’s campaign manager for his New York City mayoral bid resigned over the weekend, a spokeswoman confirmed Sunday, according to Reuters.

News of Danny Kedem’s departure comes as the scandal embroiled candidate’s polling numbers plummeted in recent days after new revelations of his sexually explicit Internet exchanges with women emerged.

Kedem joined Weiner’s campaign in early spring, and no reason was provided for his sudden departure.

Because a full explanation was needed?

Oh, I dunno, wanted to spend more time with his family?

It is not true that all Texas Republicans are terrible racists and homophobes – some of them are pretty good at it.

Louie says that the Voter’s Rights Act is punishment against states that didn’t vote for President Obama.

Louie says that Texas “has cleaned up its act” and there is no more racial discrimination in Texas.  No sireee, not Texas.  All the racial discrimination is in Massachusetts.

Then just for fun he starts talking about Benghazi and claiming that there needs to be more investigation because of rumors.   Well, Honey, if we’re going to play that game, there’s a few Louie Gohmert rumors going around and I’ll be glad to tell them all.

I swear this man gets up every morning and swigs a big cup of goofy.

Thanks to Shirley for the heads up and John for the graphic.

I’ll post pictures of the roast later, but I just wanted to thank you guys for the most successful Democratic fundraiser in Fort Bend County history.  We sold out of tickets and there was Standing Room Only by the time the night was over.  There is no video because some of the roasters said things they’d like to be able to deny at a later date.  Me, too.

Thank you to the Silver Democrats (we rock in more than just chairs!) of Fort Bend for this treat.

Next up – Brazos County Democratic Party in Bryan, Texas, on September 22nd.  Me, the Chairman, and Wendy Davis.  Tickets are $50 and include a damn hoot.

I’m feeling better and will get back to work tomorrow.

Welcome to Texas, where Republican leadership hasn’t lowered our electric bill, our insurance rates, our college tuition, or our taxes, but they have done one helluva job lowering our standard of living.

Citing a funding shortfall and the impact of a historic oil drilling boom, Texas Department of Transportation officials on Thursday announced plans to move forward with converting some roads in West and South Texas to gravel.

Approximately 83 miles of asphalt roads will be torn up and converted to “unpaved” roads, TxDOT Deputy Executive Director John Barton said. The speed limits on those roads will probably be reduced to 30 mph.

I guess going back to cobblestone is out of the question  so once we can’t afford gravel, we got dirt.  Dirt is still pretty damn cheap in Texas and if it was good enough for Davy Crockett, it’s good enough for south Texas.

Now I want you to hear the damnest reasoning I have ever heard.

Commissioner Fred Underwood wanted to make sure the public understood the reasoning behind the decisions.

“This is a safety issue,” Underwood said. “It’s not ‘our roads are bad and we’re not going to keep them up.’ It’s ‘our roads are bad and we’re trying to protect the driving public.’”

What the hell is the difference?  Our roads are bad.  We can’t fix them. Ain’t that kinda like saying, “We can’t afford to fix our broken fire trucks but so we’re going to fix that by not letting people live in wood houses.”

Thank you Rick Perry and the Republican leadership.

Thanks to Jason for the heads up.

Just in case you missed it, be sure to send Congressvarmint Steve King some cantaloupe.

Amazon dot com is getting in on the action.  And if you want to know what the Spanish language new stations are saying about it, have a ball here.

Rumor has it that Louie Gohmert is really, really upset for not being hateful racist of the day.  They were calling him butter because he was on a roll until this.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

In case you were ever wondering what would happen if you got Clarence Thomas’ wife Jenni, John Bolton, Allen West, a top aide to Ted Cruz, and my neighbor Cathy Engelbrecht of True the Vote all together in one room and told them to form a group named Groundswell and make a list of Things To Do … today is your lucky day.

1. “At its weekly meetings, the group aims to strengthen the right’s messaging by crafting Twitter hashtags.”

2. Defeat the nomination of Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez by convincing people that he is “is extremely antagonistic toward whites.”

3. Convince Americans that John Kerry cannot be trusted as Secretary of State because “Kerry’s son in law is an Iranian American with extensive family still in Iran.”

4. “If we were all gay illegal aliens, the party likes [sic] us.”

5. Re-brand efforts to restrict access to the polls through voter ID programs and strict scrutiny of minority voters as a “Voter Rights” campaign.

6. Win the hearts and minds of “minorities” by re-positioning themselves as “Fredrick Douglas[sic] Republican[s],” instead of tea partiers or conservatives.

7. Refer to immigration reform as “OBAMAGRATION”

8. Hype the “Fast and the Furious” controversy and the Benghazi embassy attack some more.

9. “A 15 sec internet [YouTube ad] featuring ethnically diverse children on a merry-go-round [soft music]… Nuclear explosion.”

10. “Write articles on [sic] 4th grade level!”

Hey, they’ve got #10 down pat.

Is it just me or is there something kinky going on between Jenni Thomas and John Bolton?  Those two sure concoct a lot of reasons to be in the same room together.

Frederick Douglass Republicans?  Guess who came up with TAT idea?

Thanks to Kyle and many others for the heads up.