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If only Boehner wept as copiously for the poor and the sick as he does when confessing his own greatness.

— Roger Ebert

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Juanita’s Facebook friends got to chatting about Bernie Sander’s amazing performance on the Senate floor on Friday.  I was pretty impressed myownself.

So, I fessed up to something.  Bernie’s finance director is an adored friend of mine.  Carol Davis is a Texan who owned a really fancy winter coat so she moved to Vermont so she could wear it more often.

I let Carol know how much applause Bernie was getting in Texas and asked her where folks could send snail mail that would actually get to him.  (Remember the problems we had trying to get books to Senators?)

Carol has given me permission to share her chatty response with you —

Bernie has a crack staff  and when people have gone to them for help they are just amazed at the support they get. Just a point you may not realize, this is pure Bernie, he’s never changed from when he started way back when he won the Mayor job in Burlington by 12 votes.  A lot of people were terrified that this “Socialist ” was the mayor, but he did such a good job that he won by a landslide in the next election. When he ran for Senate the only real opposition could have been Gov. Dubie (R) ( we call him Gov. Scissorhands here because you can’t open up a can of tuna without him being there for the opening). He’s been replaced by a Dem. Peter Schumlin, who will be in office next year.  Anyway he was the best shot the R’s had was polled against Bernie and only got 30% of the polling oks so he decided not to run. The R’s had to get a guy named Tarrent to run who could fund his own campaign since he was a multimillionaire and he only got 34% of the vote after millions going to that campaign. You are probably aware of recent Vermont history but of the Senators only Pat Leahy, Bernie and Jim Jeffords when he bailed ever caucased with the Dems. This was a solid Republican State but Liberal Republicans, when the party changed so did the voting trends here. But even with the Bush voters in the North east Kingdom it was not uncommon to see a Bush and a Bernie sign on lawns there. Bernie’s secret is he talks to people who (think) they don’t agree with him. Then they realize he makes sense.

Bernie has not changed over time, he works constantly, a true believer. when he walks down the street in Burlington people shout “Hey, Bernie, Hi!” I myself run into Pat Leahy and Marcelle in the supermarket from time to time and we are all on a first name basis with our congressmen.

Also, if you’re not aware Peter Welsh, our congressman who replaced Bernie in the house, was putting his own position paper in circulation in the house and the two of them worked as a team. Leahy also is in support of this. Not to mention DFA , Dean’s old group was circulating a petition which BTW you folks should sign.

Again, if Bernie is home this weekend , (he might not come home between his long day today and the storm coming up on Sunday/Monday he may stay in DC) you have the Burlington address and the DC address.

I’ll send a copy of the facebook coments you got to his Email.

Here’s the snail mail addresses:

Burlington, 1 Church St., 2nd Floor, Burlington,VT 05401

Washington D.C., 332 Dirksen Building, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510

Carol comes here pretty often so send her a hug!

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The Geeks who handle my email moved my email account to a new server.  For some damn reason, it took 48 hours for the DNS to propagate.  Now, I have no idea what all that means, and personally I think they just make that stuff up to make us think they are actually working instead of playing solitaire, but the bottom line is that all my email from the last 48 hours can only be accessed by Julian Assange and I ain’t willing to make bail.

So, if you sent me an email in the last 48 hours, which includes the Tell Juanita thingy, you have to send it again.

I am sorry, but apparently my DNS is very cranky.

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Juanita may have told you that she’s going to be in Austin for the first day of the Lege.  They are swearing in her brand spankin’ new State Representative and she worked too hard to help get him elected to miss seeing him get to work.

And, as some of you recall, the first day of the Lege is the day after Tom DeLay’s sentencing.  “If it is true that bad things come in threes, then good things have to come in threes, too,” Juanita announces.

She just found out what it is.

The “Conservatives” are planning a rally on the first day of the Lege.

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“Look, I do not have anything against white males.  I married one and gave birth to three of them.  However, contrary to what they may think, they are not the only humans on earth,” Juanita begins this morning with a line out the door of women getting spiffied-up for the big VFW Holiday Dance tonight.

“Apparently, the only winners in the last election were white males,” she sighs upon discovering that the chairmen of every House committee are white males, except for one.

“It’s kinda dazzling to think that it’s 2010 and apparently we have not come a long way, Baby.”

The only ta-tas at the table

The sole female’s role is kinda stunning, too.  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the loopy lady from Florida who openly encourages the assassination of Fidel Castro, now chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee.  “Oh Good Lord,” Juanita says, “somebody give her a row boat and pistol.”

“So,” Juanita says, “once again, the Republican idea of diversity is a tall white guy, a short white guy, a fat white guy, a bald white guy, a …….”

“Yo, Juanita,” Thelma interrupts. “You forgot John Boehner.  He’s not white.”

She has a point there.

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It appears that Texas is not the only state with very frightening Republican State Representatives.

This story right here will make you go hummmm……

It appears that they have a state rep in Minnesota who hangs out in Planned Parenthood parking lots with a loaded gun and extra ammo while claiming that he was merely stalking a woman he met at an online dating service.

No, seriously.

No charges were filed.

No, seriously.