So, it’s being reported all over Texas that President Obama is raising more money in Texas than any other candidate.

That’s nice.  One of the customers even suggested that should make Texas Republicans “chew on the rug edges.”

Not really.

The Texas ATM machine is open and apparently functions very well.  I just wish some of that money would come back to Texas.  We are sweltering here under people like Blake Farenthold and Louie Gohmert.  We got ourselves Leo Berman and Debbie Riddle in our State House because all our money goes out of state and we get left high and Republican dry.

“Honey,” Juanita told me this morning, “I am plum winded trying to elect Democrats in Texas.  All our money goes out and none comes back in.  I saw where the Hispanic Institute has a five state strategy – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico – for Hispanic voter turnout.  Texas is off the list. That’s a-freekin-mazing.  We are going to lose the Valley again.”

The Republicans in Texas aren’t worried about money going to Obama.  In fact, they are giggling about it.  They know something:  if you don’t have a Democratic campaign in the state, Democrats lose from the Congress to the courthouse.

If Barack Obama would pay a 10% dividend back to the Texas Democrats for every dollar he raises here, we might could at least take back the Texas House and elect some Democratic judges.

That’s my hissy fit for today.

I’ll have another one tomorrow.

“If the time between elections just becomes about jockeying for the next election, then what in the world is the point of getting elected in the first place?” -Al Franken

And silly you thought they wouldn’t reach an agreement and save the nation.

Well, we can all take a rest now that that’s over.

I keep telling my friends from foreign states not to fret over Rick Perry becoming President.  He’s got more baggage than the Trailways Bus Station.

And more than a few skeletons in his closet.  At long last, it seems that the national media is finally bungling around and finding these wide-open secrets.

There are niche issues that could hurt Perry, like his support for the (never-created) Trans-Texas Corridor, a toll-road despised by small-government types that would have meant the appropriation of an estimated 81,000 acres of rural land. Or the executive order he signed in 2007 requiring that Texas sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus, a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer. (The order was ultimately blocked, but the order outraged many conservatives.)

Now, they forgot the part about the drug Gardasil making a rump load of money for Rick Perry’s friends.  Or the part where the Trans-Texas Corridor was going to be built by a company in France.  Yeah, yeah, like Paris, France.

And, since Perry took office in 2001, the Texas’ debt has grown at a faster rate than that of the U.S. government.

In short, he’s George Bush minus all that pesky book-learning stuff.

See that rug Rick is standing on?  It’s fixing to come out from under him once he starts threatening to enter the race.  And it won’t be Democrats who do it.  Republicans eat their own.  Kay Bailey Hutchison was too nice to do it, but Michelle Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren’t.

Who wants the popcorn concession.

For those of you keeping score, Sarah Palin has yet to be made a grandmother by people who have been married for 9 months.

It’s looking like there’s been some more sinful mattress thrashing at the Palin Sanctimonious Motel.  Son Trip Tank Tubby Tuba Trash Track (there, I knew I’d get it) got married about three months short of a 10 pound premature baby.

As a liberal, I am happy for the prospective parents and their little tricycle motor to be.  As a liberal, I am okay with two adults doing the wild thing (they are both in their early 20’s).  But, I think if I was a conservative Momma whose kids are sparkin’ like jackrabbits, I’d just shut the hell up.

Thanks to Carol, Edith Ann  and several others for the heads up.

I know a couple of you were waiting to hear my thoughts about Ric Sanchez‘s speech to the Texas Labor Rally to Protect Social Security and Medicare.

He was a no-show.  After making the promise to be there, he canceled. It appears that his giveadammer is broken.

However, he was in Sinton, which is about 20 miles from Corpus Christi, the day before.  My folks there tell me that he sounded far more like a Republican than a Democrat.  So, it’s probably wise on his part not to show up because he’d be as out of place as a whale in a washtub at a Labor Rally.

Apparently, he’s gonna try to buy the primary because he sure ain’t lookin’ for votes.