If You’re Too Crazy To Get Elected in Florida, I Have a State For You!
As most of you know, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is holy-crap-he’s-eating-live-frogs crazy. The man has a couple of notches missing from his cogwheel. And, Honey, when the chain hits those blank spaces, epic whacko occurs.
Epic.
Allen West epic.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday announced the appointment of conservative firebrand Allen West, a former Florida congressman and prominent Fox News contributor, to the state’s Sunset Advisory Commission.
It appears that the violent and discredited West moved to Texas.
“There is no mission more important than working towards a more efficient and effective state government,” West said in a statement. “As a graduate of the University of Tennessee and a former member of Congress, it is a blessing to follow in the footsteps of Davy Crockett who came to Texas to fight for liberty and freedom.”
Allen West, I knew Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett was a friend of mine. Sir, you are no Davy Crockett.
Moses Rose maybe, but no on the Davy Crockett thing.
The Sunset Commission reviews state agencies for efficiency. You can bet that Allen West will find every social agency helping children or old people should be destroyed. Patrick had to import meanness. Texas didn’t have anybody that mean and, hell, we have people meaner than ten acres of snakes.
It’s going to be a Mean-O’-Thon in Austin.
Prior to his Congressional service, West’s 20-year Army career came to an end, when he was charged in connection with the beating and simulated execution of an Iraqi citizen in 2003. Dan Patrick sure knows how to pick them.
1After Congress, I knew this guy went somewhere but I didn’t know exactly the spot. Texas now has my sympathies. The Too Much Mean-ness Meter has been overcome.
2Oreo
3He’s like that other ghoul in Alaska that refuses to remain in the obscurity they deserve. Then fools like Dan Patrick throw them a grift line.
Thanks McCain……
4How much does it pay?
5Will by any chance the Sunset Commission be reviewing the performance of the say, the AG’s office? the Governor’s office?
6the Lieutenant Governor’s office??
@Micr. Darn it, but no to all those.
7https://www.sunset.texas.gov/reviews-and-reports
Incredibly depraved. Texas has become a carpetbagger destination. He makes his fellow baggers (Pee and Beck) seem almost sane (not really).
8I still cannot figure out what Texas did to accrue this much bad karma.
Or does Texas have a sign at the state border that says: Give me your ired, your scoundrels, Your addled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched masses of your teeming shore. Send these, the losers, media tossed to me, I lift my lamp up beside the golden trough.
9A “conservative firebrand” is generally someone who likes setting things on fire and watching them burn to the ground.
10Wow! As if things weren’t bad enough in the Texas nutjob department, now you have to endure this monster. My sincere sympathies all.
11Hard to believe the insanity of our so called elected officials, elected by the Robotic voters of Texas–why import another Islamaphob intolerant woman hater and bigot into this state (I sure do not claim it as my state, I only live here)–we have enough of the home grown variety as it is–stay tuned, we shall see more of the same while these people are running the show. Florida had enough of him so now we get this fool? One term in Congress and he was voted out–what is the matter with Dan Patrick–really?
12Rhea, “conservative firebrand” or ‘young guns’ … just so not the thoughtful people needed to draft and pass sane legislation.
Call me crazy, but end timers, or people waiting for the world to explode in confirmation of their ‘religious’ beliefs are not exactly suited to leading us into a better future. I placed ‘religious’ in quotes because I do recognize that many people of faith are really fine people: former President Carter for example as well as several who comment at the WMDBS. But the extremists who wish to behead me for not sharing their faith or the Ted Cr-oozes calling for carpet bombing without a clue as to the military meaning or the illegality, much less the ramifications of creating another 3-4 generations of jihadists.
It’s like this Ted, “Thou shalt not kill” is one of your commandments, or are you Dominionists a little sloppy with Moses? Ted, you are not the least moral person I know, but you rate in that irrelevant wing nut level with the Salad Shooter from Alaska.
Moral. Yeah. Someone with artistic talent should send him the definition to hang on his wall. It’s no surprise he left the practice of law to enter snacilbupeR politics; those classes in ethics must have been a killer for him.
13Is it the fact that Texas is so low on the globe that all the nutjobs just roll into it???
14@WA Skeptic
15Possibly. I have heard from cousins that the only reason Texas doesn’t slide into the Guffa Mexico and float away (or sink, as the case my be) is that Oklahoma sucks.
West has been in Texas for a year and now I get to pay him to serve on a commission about which he knows nothing. Then Abbott/Patrick will extract a contribution from him with my money for their re-election.
Livin’ la vida loca . . .
16Ah yes… barrel meet bottom.
17Thanks, Texas.
I’ve wondered what became of satan’s designated disciple to Florida.
Since there’s nothing even close coming from Ala-damn-bama – my former domicile – I had hoped that the demented LtC. would come to rest there. But, alas and alack, you have wrested west from us.
18You need to herd some of those nasty wild hogs I read about over to the lawns of these creeps.
19Well I think he is following in Daveys footsteps. If you read a more accurate telling of Texas History (i.e. Texas Illiad by Steve Harding) you will find that most of the story we remember…Disneys movies…..are lies. Most of our heroes came to Texas seeking fame and fortune. That often entailed often illegal schemes. Like on plan to rob the payroll wagon of the Mexican army….So yes he has come to rob us.
20Really, Dan Patrick? You had to import Florida Man?
Next time I think my State (NY) really sucks, especially with various pols going to jail, I will say to myself, “At least we don’t have Florida Man.”
21And just when I thought we already had all the right wing crazies… right here, in the Lone Star State.
Dan Patrick found a way to import one from Florida.
Good Gosh Granny!
22At the rate these crazed officials are working to destroy a once great state, I can only hope that they are soon kidnapped by Daesh or Mexican drug lords.
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