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Juanita says there’s not many things in the world that she trusts, and you can add the motion picture industry to that list.

Especially when it’s run by Republicans in the Texas House.  “Honey, you give those boys a moving picture camera, a polling place, a badge of some sort, and they’ll make a bigger mess than kindergartners with finger paints inside of 30 minutes,” she says.

Ponder on this —

On Monday, the House Elections Committee heard testimony on House Bill 1926 by state Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington). The bill would allow poll watchers — who represent parties, groups or candidates — to videotape in polling places if they believe something illegal is occurring (and without compromising individual ballot secrecy). The bill also makes it a Class B Misdemeanor for someone to reveal poll watchers’ identities without their permission, punishable by a max $2,000 fine and/or six months in jail or less.

Representatives of counties and county officials said the proposed rights to record video and remain anonymous would be the creation of unique privileges for poll watchers, and cautioned against unintended consequences, such as voter intimidation and inability for poll workers to maintain order in polling places.

“Think for a minute about the ornery little cusses the Republican Party already has out causing mayhem with video editing equipment.  Think about Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe at your polling location following your hiney all around and taking movies of your voter certificate, how long you stood at the booth to vote, and what not.”

“Naahhhhh … nothing could possibly go wrong there,” she adds.

“Next thing you know we’ll have videotaping people videotaping the video takers.  The only winner I see here is Sony,” she smiles.

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In August of 2009 –

FERNLEY, Nev. – Sen. John Ensign told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his affair with a friend’s wife was different from former President Bill Clinton’s relationship with a White House intern because he didn’t lie about it under oath.

“I haven’t done anything legally wrong,” the Nevada Republican said.

“President Clinton stood right before the American people and he lied to the American people,” Ensign said. “You remember that famous day he lied to the American people, plus the fact I thought he committed perjury. That’s why I voted for the articles of impeachment.”

Please, Dear Lord, make hypocrisy painful.

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From Kary —

As wildfires continue to sweep across hundreds of thousands of acres, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has issued an official state proclamation urging residents to pray to God to send some rain.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on that day for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal and robust way of life.

Perry’s proclamation does not ask God what Texas did to piss Him off in the first place.

The problem is not finding the starting place on that list.  The problem, my friends, is finding the ending place.

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If you haven’t read Gail Collins in the New York Times this morning, you are missing a treat.

That is all.

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They ain’t planning on being civil.

This was on Ebay.  To Ebay’s credit, they took it down once someone registered an objection.  But, not before Fenway Fran got a screenshot.

Click the little one to get the big one.

Here’s the rest of his stuff on Ebay.  It appears he also has a very Republican attitude about women.

The guy is about 2 dumplin’s short of a proper pot pie.