Head right on over to Zazzle and order yours.

Thanks to Barbara Q for the heads-up.

Pete Olson is my congressvarmint.  He’s Phil Graham’s hat and coat carrier.  It’s an improvement over Tom DeLay because nobody, and I mean nobody, takes him seriously on Capitol Hill.  In fact, they giggle at him behind his back and say he’s “least likely to be a brain surgeon.”

In short, he’s dumb.  But, boy howdy!, he’s got the GOP Greed thing fine tuned.

Representative Pete Olson and 99 fellow House Republicans signed a letter yesterday urging the Obama administration to resolve a government lawsuit and let AT&T Inc. (T) buy T-Mobile USA Inc.

All but one of the 100 lawmakers has received political donations from AT&T employees since 2009, according to a Bloomberg review of campaign finance records. The letter signers took in $963,275, Art Brodsky, a spokesman for Washington-based advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in an e-mail.

But the one million dollars is just the beginning —

Tomorrow, Olson is to attend a Washington fundraising luncheon backed by AT&T lobbyists. Suggested contributions of $2,500, $1,000 or $500 go to the Olson for Congress Committee, according to an invitation e- mailed around Washington and obtained by Bloomberg.

J. Barry Hutchison, an AT&T assistant vice president who once worked for former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, urged contacts to attend the Olson luncheon in an e-mail obtained by Bloomberg. “Pete has been a leader on the Energy and Commerce Committee and I hope you can help him by attending,” according to the e-mail.

In the real world where the rest of America lives, that’s call extortion.  In Pete’s world, it’s called “You mean I can buy a yacht with this money?”

The other day I bought my yearly lottery ticket.  Thelma asked me what I was going to buy with the $8 million jackpot.”

“I dunno,” I replied, “a newspaper or a congressman, I guess.”

I think congressmen have priced themselves out of the market.

Thanks to Weed-Pullin’ Bob for the heads-up.

Because of the drought all over Texas, the Super DeLux Brand Christians can’t do that baptizing thing anymore so they decided to replace it with a ceremony where they exchange laughter with haughty.

They have humorectomies.

Parents call for boycott of Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls flavor

Schweddy Balls ice cream is the latest in frozen threats facing your children, at least according to One Million Moms. The conservative organization, an offshoot of American Family Association, has called for a boycott of the newest Ben & Jerry’s flavor because they find it offensive.

There article is unclear whether they find  offensive: an ice cream named  Schweddy Balls or actual Schweddy Balls.  I mean, in all honesty, I might be about 50% with them.

Well, if this don’t beat all.

Trinity Christian Schools in Lubbock, Texas,  has up and decided  they will no longer be supporting Lubbock’s Susan G. Komen Foundation.  Because of Komen’s affiliation with Planned Parenthood, the school backed out and kept their money.  They claim it’s because they believe in the sanctity of life.

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The truth is: 95% of the money raised in Lubbock stays in Lubbock for the Komen Foundation.  The other 5% goes to the national Komen Foundation for research grants.  Planned Parenthood does not apply for those grants.  No money raised in Lubbock goes to Planned Parenthood or abortion.

I do not buy this “sanctity of life” crapola for one damn minute.  How ’bout the lives of women with breast cancer?  How ’bout the Komen Foundation helping to discover breast cancer early to save women — mothers, sisters, aunts, wives, cousins?  Clearly, to the Super DeLux Brand Christians, they are not life.  They’re just women and, you know, women are a dime a dozen.

They should be required to change the term “sanctity of life” to “sanctimony of life,” because if it was prostate cancer they wouldn’t care if Happy Hal’s How To Eat Your Teenager Clinic was supporting it, that would be fine.

It’s just another excuse to hoard their money, demonize Planned Parenthood, and demonstrate that women’s lives are not of much value.

If the spirit moves you, here’s the website of Trinity So-Called Christian School.  Here’s their Facebook page.  And here’s their contact page.  Play nice.

Thanks to Teresa for the heads-up.

Public Policy Polling meandered down to Texas to discover that Rick Perry is more unpopular than he is popular with numbers of 48% to 45%.  Good news for Perry, though, that those numbers are up from June when he was at 52% disapproval.

He’s an unpopular as ever with independents, running at 61% disapproval.  With them, he couldn’t get a date at the Chicken Ranch with a hen under each arm and a $20 bill taped to his forehead.

Here’s an interesting one —-

Rick Perry has an under water approval rating in Texas and he’s leading Barack Obama by a smaller margin than John McCain won the state by in 2008.

Darlin’, if you are less popular than John McCain in your own damn state, you got some public relations work to do.

The bottom line?

Texas is probably a pipe dream for Democrats next year, especially given the overall national political climate. But the numbers here still show some things Republicans should be worried about- the fact that the voters who know Perry best don’t like him, and that Hispanics continue to support Obama overwhelmingly.

Those who know Perry best, don’t like him.

I just love reading that.

Barbara sent us a copy of the letter she is putting on the Democratic website in Bastrop.

You guys did some amazing stuff – $1,405.

I am amazed, gratified, and honored to call you customers, and friends.

Thank you, and thank you for showing the world that Democrats care.

Barbara and me at the 2010 State Democratic Convention. Amazingly sober.

Thanks to Judge Criss for the photo.