Today’s earthquake led to some very funny comments.  This one was sent by David and came from here,  oddly on Jennifer Rubin’s column on Rick Perry and the Club for Growth.

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President Obama caused an earthquake to strike just west of Richmond today. The quake, measuring 5.9 was “conveniently” timed to strike while Obama was out of town.

A spokesmen for Michelle Bachmann blamed the quake on the USGS and vowed to cut their funding or eliminate the agency entirely. Mitt Romney sad that he was unsure whether he felt the quake but would issue a statement later. Rick Santorum said that the quake was “God’s wrath for the President choosing to vacation among godless rich people in Massachusetts”. Governor Perry said that he was sending out the Texas Rangers to find the person responsible and teach them about causing seismic events “Texas Style”. Paul Ryan reiterated that the earthquake would not change his mind about running for the Presidency, and wishes God would stop trying to get his attention that way.

Funny.

I’ve heard from several of our customers in the earthquake area.

Please check in if you felt it or heard from friends and family who did.

(Me?  I’m just waiting for a way for the GOPpers to blame Obama.)

There’s a website, well actually it’s a Twitter feed, that I enjoy called White Whine.

Sometimes I do that.  I found myself whining about having to feed the swimming pool every day because it’s been so hot and dry.  I have a damn swimming pool and I’m whining.  I slapped myself upside the head and sent a check to the Salvation Army to make amends.

The problem with Rick Perry is that he’s the King of White Whine but he’s not smart and/or aware enough to know it.

Yesterday he compared a tax cut to civil rights.

Seriously.

“Listen, America’s gone a long way from the standpoint of civil rights and thank God we have,” said the Texas governor. “We’ve gone from a country that made great strides in issues of civil rights, I think we all can be proud of that. And as we go forward, America needs to be about freedom. It needs to be about freedom from overtaxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation.”

Taxes are the lowest they’ve been in 30 years, but Rick Perry thinks they are too damn high because paying your fair share to keep America running is a whole lot like Bull Conner turning fire hoses on you.

Yep – exactly alike.

In the struggle to defend greed, Rick Perry is right out there, out front, unafraid, grabbing every dollar bill he can, subscribing to Gourmet Magazine at taxpayer expense, living in a $10,000 a month mansion at taxpayer expense, handing out taxpayer money to his friends.  I’m sure it was just a slight overlook that they aren’t dedicating a monument to Rick Perry, Defender of Greed, this weekend in DeeCee.

One other thing.  When folks like me like to remind people that Texas ain’t the Great State anymore since Bush and Perry took over, Perry says —

According to the AP, Perry said, “When the liberal pundits start trashing Texas … I want you all to stand up and say that dog won’t hunt.”

We’re not trashing Texas, Rick, we’re trashing your governing ability.  Remember?

You’re gonna love this guy.

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And this one, too.

Thanks to Nancy for the heads-up.

Like most Republican best selling authors, Rick Perry did not read his own book.

Juanita says she can hardly blame him.  “There’s plenty of stuff I want to know about on God’s green earth, but how to shoot coyotes with a laser sighted pistol ain’t one of them,” she smiles.  “I figure Rick don’t know much else worth telling.”

But, Rick’s campaign says that his book, which ain’t exactly flying off the shelves, “is a look back, not a path forward.”

It was written “as a review and critique of 50 years of federal excesses, not in any way as a 2012 campaign blueprint or manifesto,” Mr. Sullivan said.

Oh, so he can tear down a barn, but he can’t build one.

I’m glad we got that much settled.

It’s probably a good thing he’s fed up, because I sure don’t see him in the kitchen cookin’ anything.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.

Texas Republican Congressvarmint Lamar Smith, whose district is drawn to look like a monkey riding a horse to insure his election, is pretty much one of those guys who is so slick that he can’t keep his socks up.  He’s chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

His goal in Congress this week:  to embarrass the President of the United States of America.

Seriously.

President Obama’s administration announced it would prioritize deportation hearings, taking the most serious criminal offenders first, rather than targeting those who are probably very nice people and just here illegally.

Lamar Smith pitched a walleyed snot nosed hissy fit about anything that reasonable.  He marched his prissy butt over to talk radio and hollered —

SMITH: As to what our recourse is, what we can do, we can do a couple things, at least in the House where the Republicans are in the majority. We can conduct hearings, oversight hearings, we can pull in administration officials, make them testify under oath, find out what’s going on, try to, frankly, embarrass the President and push back and get the American people on our side to push back against the administration.

So, here’s what I’m going to do.

Here’s the picture Lamar Smith uses on his congressional website and in official photos:

And here’s what he really looks like:

Embarrased, Lamar?

And that explains why he only goes on radio.

By the way, Lamar stopped his plans to have hearings on jobs to start this Embarrass The President of the United States of America Tour.

Thanks to Lorraine for the heads-up.