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Golf.  No, seriously, golf.  Now they think the game of rich white men is causing the downfall of America.

This weekend was the US Open.  An adorable 22 year old kid from Northern Ireland broke the course record.  His father worked three jobs to give his exceptionally talented son a chance to fulfill the kid’s dreams.

But that’s not the big story.  The big story among Republican circles is that the PGA and NBC hate God and provide an “example of left wing individuals trying to change the fundamental roots of this country.”

It seems that there was a patriotic introduction at the US Open with audio of kids reciting the pledge of allegiance interspersed with pauses and patriotic pictures.    A mistake in editing left out the words “under God, indivisible.”

The rightwing, being minorly sold on secession, was not upset about the word “indivisible” being left out, but boy howdy!, they are damn near certain that leaving out God means that this is another harbinger of the downfall of America.

I thought i was the only one who noticed that yesterday. It turns my stomach to see what damage liberals have done to this country. The removal of God from our society is awfully reminiscent of 1930s Germany, and Obama is the furher. Zeig heil

Okay, all you liberals get the hell off the golf course!

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As you’ve heard by now, Paul Ryan directly benefits from the budget he is pushing.

The financial disclosure report Ryan filed with Congress last month and made public this week shows he and his wife, Janna, own stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to the very energy companies that benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan’s budget plan.

But, this is just normal, everyday Republican congressional greed.  Where Ryan gets bonus points is his explanation of the situation —

Ryan’s office says the congressman wasn’t thinking about himself or the oil companies that lease his land when he drafted the budget blueprint that extended the energy tax breaks. “These are properties that Congressman Ryan married into,” spokesman Kevin Seifert said. “It’s not something he has a lot of control over.”

“Okay, that gives me a headache,” Juanita admits when told of this response.  “We suspect that Ryan Eddie Munster probably doesn’t control his wife’s … ahem …. holdings, but he does, in freeking fact, control where tax subsidies go.”

“Honey,” she carefully explains, “you may not own the target but you are the one who is  shooting the arrow.”

“I cannot believe that they pay people to come up with these responses,” she says.  “Heck, Buck Pochek would do it for a six pack and couple of lottery tickets, and Buck’s answers would be smarter.”

Thanks to David for the heads-up.

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Two weeks after Governor Rick Perry called for a Day of Prayer for Rain, here’s what we got —

The whole danged state is a’blaze.

And it appears that East Texas, Perry’s base, is going first.

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The Texas Republican Party has decided not to hold a presidential straw  poll this fall.  They had hoped to have one to “an effort to allow Texas Republicans to play a stronger role in picking their party’s candidate.”

But, alas, interest didn’t seem high enough.

“The staff felt that the lack of participants would severely hamper the party’s ability to ensure attendance and make it impossible to safeguard against a financial loss on the event,” the statement reads.

But, in the understatement of the week, the Austin-American Statesman wrote —

It’s unclear if the possibility of Gov. Rick Perry entering the presidential race played a role in the party’s decision.

No shoot, Sherlock.

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…. John McCain.

As most of you have heard, we’re having a drought.  It’s a bad one.  Hell, half the cows in Texas are giving powered milk.  I heard it’s supposed to rain a little next week and they’re gonna let school out for it.

Since it’s as dry as Moses in the middle of the Red Sea, most of Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas are on fire.

John McCain says that the fires are being started by … come on, you know … not abortions …. not high taxes … not gun control … not gay marriage, but you’re getting close … there ya go!  Illegal immigrants.

U.S. Sen. John McCain is blaming illegal immigrants for starting some of the wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres in Arizona.

“There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally,” McCain, R-Arizona, said Saturday at a press conference. “The answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border.”

McCain said that illegal immigrants set such fires either to send signals, keep warm or distract law enforcement agents. But he did not specify which fires allegedly had been started by illegal immigrants, nor did he identify his sources or provide details of the “substantial” evidence he cited.

Yes, sireee, we’re having a whole lot of trouble keeping warm right now.  Take Laredo, Texas, for example.  They have a cold front coming in on Wednesday —

And smoke signals?  Oh yeah, that’s what those ponchos are for, ya know.  Devious little devils, aren’t they?  And their favorite game is Light a Fire and Try to Outrun it.

I have a different take on this and it’s just a probable as John’s.  If you think about it, none of this was happening until Sarah Palin moved to Arizona.  And Sarah Palin wouldn’t have moved to Arizona if John McCain hadn’t made her famous.  So …. maybe all this is John McCain’s fault.

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Remember when I sighed heavily that General Ricardo Sanchez didn’t even have a website a full month after he announced?

Well, apparently that very day, his handlers got a website up.  And, from the look of it, they spent a whole 2, 3 hours on that sucker.  It doesn’t take much time to copy and paste talking points from the Democratic Leadership Council on three issues.

Whatever little gnome they have tied up in a dark room to spew out words for Ben Barnes’ anointed candidates apparently got fed this month.

The bottom line is this:  Lt. Col. Rick Noriega, who was not their anointed candidate, raised $6 million on his own and got a higher percentage of the vote than Bill White, who was their anointed and even dream candidate.

Hell, we need to run Noriega again.  Or, at least somebody who can talk while Ben Barnes is drinking water.  Wendy Davis, maybe?

Go look at that sucker.  His slogan is “For a unified and prosperous Texas!”?  Who writes that stuff?  Gee, for five bucks, I’ll write, “For a clean and happy Texas.”  Oh wait.  You have to put an exclamation point at the end so people will know to get excited about it.  I forgot the most important part.

Then check this out:

His belief is that, at the most fundamental level, the issues confronting Texas and the country boil down to three:  Securing the future of Texas and America, protecting the rights and ensuring opportunity for all Americans, and recapturing the American dream.

What the fool tarnation does any of that mean?  He is for what is good and against what is bad?

I read his words about the economy and job creation three times and I still have no idea what his solutions are except that he wants to have cake and eat it, too.

My suggestion is that you take down that website right now.  Scrap that sucker before people start trying to actually wade through it, and copy it to hold against Sanchez and last gasping breath of the Democratic Party.

You know, I am hoping against history that Sanchez is a really good man who will break away from his handlers and lead the Democratic Party back to being the party of people.  He needs something more than exclamation points to get me excited.