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Juanita has always enjoyed watching Libertarians try to govern.  “I mean, the whole point of being a libertarian is that you believe in anarchy so why the hell do they bother to run for office?” Juanita wonders.

So, when she saw this morning that the Republicans put Ron Paul as chair of the committee overseeing the Federal Reserve, she damn near exploded in laughter.

Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is poised to chair the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee, putting the gavel of the panel overseeing the Federal Reserve into the hands of one of the central bank’s most outspoken critics.

and then there’s ….

Paul has been a harsh critic of the Federal Reserve and has pushed for measures that would audit the central bank or abolish it altogether. The subcommittee also has jurisdiction over “precious metals,” and Paul has advocated a return to the gold standard.

The decision to allow Paul to chair the committee, which was done in response to the Tea Party threats, is gonna a delight for Juanita to watch.

“Ron Paul is smart.  Crazy as a bedbug, but smart.  You can bet your best pair of pink boots that he’s gonna be the smartest Republican on that committee and it’s more fun than recess in heaven to watch him tie up Republicans in their own rhetoric.”

“It’s easy to be a philosophical purist when you don’t have to govern,” Juanita reminds the ladies of the Political Book  Club and Intense Cooking Society.  “Watching Ron Paul, who lives just down the road from me, try to do anything other than say NO real loud, will be something to watch — safely from a distance.”

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“I believe that this classifies as habitual crazy,” Juanita suspects. “East Texas rears its ugly head.  Y’all, it’s Leo Berman again.

A law proposed by an East Texas lawmaker would jail federal employees who enforce the new federal healthcare law. CBS 19 sat down with State Representative Leo Berman to talk about his proposed bill, and why he calls the law an assault on the U.S. Constitution.

No, he is not kidding.

“He’s willing to stand there and watch Granny die at the emergency room door while threatening nurses and doctors with the federal prison if they help her,” Juanita reports.  “And knowing Leo like I do, he’d let it be his own grandma and then blame Obama just so he could get facetime on the eveing news.”

“Leo Berman is means than a double eyed hurricane and dumb as bean dip.  That’s a fearsome combination.”

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We here at the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc., the Official Beauty Salon for the 2011 World Series, have just heard the almost worst news ever.

Apparently nothing says patriotism like the cold, hard steel of an M1911, .45-caliber handgun — designed with love by a local gunmaker.

Which is probably why Utah state Rep. Carl Wimmer (R) wants to make it Utah’s official state firearm.

The last thing Texas needs is an Official State Firearm but I see it happening anyway.  The floor debate would last several weeks, resulting in busted chandeliers, holes in the portrait of Jim Hogg, and powder burns on Dan Patrick’s hands.

I read something funny last week:  A dance hall is where you go to dance with your wife.  A honkey tonk is where you go to dance with someone else’s wife.  Juanita wants to add, “An ice house is where you go to test your firearm on someone else’s husband.

You know what’s a shame?  Alan Grayson didn’t get re-elected.

Grayson looks at Republicans who will make enough money to land on Boardwalk with three hotels if the Bush tax cuts are extended.  Here’s a few examples —

Limbaugh: $2.6M per year

Beck: $1.5M per year

Hannity: $1.0M per year

Palin: only $6.4K per year

Bush: only $1.8K per year

You do understand that Rush Limbaugh is just gonna use that money for drugs, right?  And Beck will blow it all on chalk.  Hannity?  Hairspray.

Juanita’s contention is that maybe we’re not doing these people any favors by giving them a tax cut.

Think about it.

Thanks to Paul for the heads-up.

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Remember Juanita telling you about Texas Congressvarmint Joe Barton who wanted to be Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee so he could be General George Patton against President Obama?

Well, this time Smokey Joe even creeped-out the Republicans.  Even though Joe was ranking member of the committee, they picked a semi-sane Republican from Michigan for the job.

“Hellfire, even Republicans know bone dense dumb when they see it,” Juanita surmises.

“I don’t know who we’re gonna get to play George Patton for the next two years, but I’m sure the line is forming right now outside the Republican caucus door.”

She’s right about that!