Well, drat and druthers, we’ve come to the point in Texas where people with guns will threaten you for reporting people with guns.

The Open Carry Cadets are now threatening to expose the name and personal information of anybody calling 911 to report anyone carrying a weapon in a threatening manner.

A new tactic in the battle to loosen Texas gun laws has some police worried.

Some proponents of open carry of firearms vow to publicly identify 911 callers who complain about armed demonstrations.

Arlington Police Lieutenant Chris Cook said residents should not feel too intimidated to report people carrying guns in public places.

“Let us determine what is lawful or unlawful,” Lt. Cook said Friday.

Hummmm … let the police decide.  Now that’s a rare idea.

Proposed “good guy” hat

How how am I supposed to tell the difference between a good guy carrying a rifle and a bad guy carrying a rifle?  Can we make a rule that good guys wear purple frilly hats and the bad guys wear anything else?  I think that would work.  After all, I need some indication of whether a gun nut is really a gun nut or just a man with a small winkie.  The hat will make that clear.

Louie Gohmert is getting damn tired, damn tired I tell you, of John Boehner criticizing the Tea Party.

Louie has a wedgie over immigration reform.  He don’t like them brown people.  They talk that moon-man language and take high paying cushy jobs that real Americans want to do.  So, Louie took to Fox News and used lofty and esoteric language to argue his side of the Let’s Hate Mexicans issue.

Claiming Boehner wants Republicans to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in November, Gohmert went on to call the Speaker “Tammy Faye Boehner”. He then went on a rant slamming Boehner for being weak on securing the border and threatening to remove the Speaker’s gavel from Boehner’s hand forever. He extended that threat to any other Republican who dared to vote for any immigration reform.

Yeah, because Louie Gohmert is just one threat away from getting a statue of himself standing in front of Abraham Lincoln.   He’s also just one Fox News appearance away from telling fart jokes on teevee.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.

Okay, I admit the headline is a tad unfair.  Texas Congressman Ralph Hall is 90 years old.  He’s got grandchildren who are older than dirt.  We have to carbon date him to figure out how many candles to put on his birthday cake every year.  The man owes Noah a dollar.

He’s on the House Science and Technology Committee.  They didn’t have science when he was growing up.  He still marvels at that new-fangled transistor radio.

Texas Rep. Ralph Hall, the oldest serving member of Congress, spent more than $33,000 in campaign funds on orders from Honey Baked Foods and Godiva Chocolatier, campaign filings show.

Federal Election Commission records show Hall’s campaign spent a total of more than $14,000 at the Honey Baked Foods company around the holidays in 2012 and 2013. The campaign spent an additional $19,000 at Godiva in December 2013.

H’s going to be in a run off with a tea party republican on May 27th.  After his opponent announced he was going to run against Hall, Hall sent him a ham.  Seriously.  There’s pictures and everything.

Some people just won’t stay bought.  The guy still filed to run against him.

Ya know, I am not too upset about tho.  What else has the guy got to spend his campaign funds on?  It ain’t like he can see a yard sign or answer a robo call.

I kinda hope he wins again.  We need the hams.

Thanks to Fred Farklestone for the heads up.

Well, it isn’t one of our Texans who got tangled up with the feds but two good things did happen.

The guy in trouble is the guy who threatened to throw a reporter off the balcony.

The feds have been after Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) for a long time. Now they’re ready to pounce.

Grimm’s attorney confirmed to TPM on Friday that federal prosecutors are preparing to bring criminal charges against the Staten Island Congressman. According to CNN, the charges could come as soon as next week.

So, we lost that one, but — ta da! – there is a Texas connection.

In January, a Texas woman accused of using straw donors to illegally funnel $10,000 to Grimm’s campaign was reportedly in plea deal negotiations with federal prosecutors.

So, yeah, we’re Texas and we’re in every federal investigation!

Edited:  Well, come to find out, that was an federal prosecutor investigation.

The House Ethics Committee indeed did snare a Texas Congressvarmint, but neither of the ones we picked.

It’s Steve Stockman, bygawd!

Rep. Steve Stockman, who has faced a number of questions surrounding his financial disclosures and campaign finances is, according to the Houston Chronicle, the member at the heart of a new investigation from the House Ethics Committee.

On Friday, the Texas Republican told the Chronicle that his office was “aware of and is cooperating fully with the Ethics Committee’s preliminary inquiry into an [Federal Election Commission] reporting error.

Reporting error, yeah, that’s his story and he’s sticking to it.

Man, Texas has a wealth of congressional crooks.

I told you people and I told you people:  This is all about re-fighting the Civil War and now I have proof.  It’s in Georgia.

His name is John Stone and he is the only licensed firearms dealer running for congress, dammit.  The one thing that has been missing in congress, dammit, is not enough firearm dealers.

And just in case you were wondering if he can do anything other than fire a cannon …

John E. Stone is a full-time Republican candidate for Georgia’s 12th District seat in the U.S. House Representatives.  He is the former Washington Chief of Staff to House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-TX31), and former Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director for the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA10) and former U.S. Rep. Max Burns (R-GA12).

So he’s a firearm dealin’ political hack.  Now, see, THAT’S what we really need in Congress.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.

I want y’all to meet Will Infantine, a Republican fella in New Hampshire who somehow got himself elected to the State House.

He’s got some mighty odd thinking in his head.  He says that women make less than men because we’re lazier and take fewer risks.

So I guess that macho race car drivers who also run marathons are the best paid jobs in America because they stinkin’ earn it.

“Men by and large make more because of some of the things they do. Their jobs are, by and large, more riskier,” Infantine, a former chairman of the Manchester Republican Committee, said on Wednesday, as captured by progressive advocacy group Granite State Progress. “They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime, or outdoors in the elements.”

Boy, his wife has him trained, doesn’t she?

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.