It’s one of those situations where I wouldn’t take this guy to a dog fight, even if I knew he was going to lose.

For $100 cash American money, you can go to Houston, Texas, for a luncheon of King Street Patriots, get a 4 course meal at Maggiano’s, and listen to this guy speak.

I wonder why the fancy digs? These guys will eat anything that's served as long as you sprinkle a little hate on the top

The King Street Patriots are a Texas Tea Party group with an anti-voter fraud spin off organization that is plotting a nationwide poll watching movement and advocates for voter ID laws. Matthew Vadum is a conservative columnist who thinks that registering poor people to vote is un-American and “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.” On Tuesday, the King Street Patriots will be hosting him for lunch in Houston.

The name of this guy’s book is, “Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.”

I suspect the attendees will be wearing brown shirts.

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Thanks to Stephen for the heads-up.

I have often said that Republicans are people who are trying to find an ethical justification for greed.

Customer Ralph sent me this new addition to Republicanism:  a moral justification for bullying.

While other states try to reduce bullying in schools, the Republican controlled Michigan legislature has decided that bullying is wrong unless Jesus wants you to do it.

Love one another?  Not so much in Michigan.

Advocates for a law to prohibit bullying and provide school districts with the tools to address the problem were dealt a stinging rebuke Wednesday morning in the Republican-controlled Michigan Senate.

The GOP pushed through an amended bill, SB 137, which does nothing advocates have pushed for — including reporting requirements and enumeration, or listing, of protected classes. In addition, the legislation provides an exception which allows bullying based on “moral convictions.”

The full language of the insert is: “This section does not prohibit a statement of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil, or a pupil and parent or guardian.”

The intent of the law is that you can bully homosexuals.  In fact, it’s even encouraged as being “moral” and “sincerely religious.”  It’s kinda your religious duty to make a homosexual student commit suicide.  It would make Michigan Jesus proud.

There is a story about Lyndon Johnson that nobody can verify exactly but it sounds so much like Lyndon that it’s probably true.

In one of his early congressional races, Lyndon suggested that he run a newspaper ad claiming that his opponent has sex with horses.

“Lyndon,” one of his aides said, “you can’t do that.  You know it’s not true.”

“Of course it’s not true,” Lyndon thundered.  “I just want to hear the sonuvabitch deny it.”

i before e except after Reince

The chairman of the Republican Party is an elfish guy named Reince Priebus.  I can only hope I am spelling that correctly because far too many i before e rules are broken in the making of that name.

Anyway, Rience’s problem is that he does, in fact, have sex with horses.  Well, so to speak.  And he’s had to deny it.  And that’s been fun to watch.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus defended the GOP on Sunday against the notion that its policies only favor the rich, arguing that Republicans are out to create jobs and cut taxes for people of all income levels.

“Of course the party doesn’t favor the rich, but what the party does favor is reducing taxes on every single American out there,” Priebus said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Okay, so how come every economic plan suggested by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would increase taxes on the poor while lowering them on the rich?

You can see how rumors like this get started, Reince.  All your economic and social policies keep hurting the working people of America and pretty soon you get the reputation of hurting the working people of America.

And every time you keep having to deny it, more and more people begin to believe it’s true.  Just ask Herman Cain.

Come to find out, Texas ranks last in mental health spending.

Despite an increase in state spending on mental health care, Texas still ranks last in per capita funding for people with mental illness, according to a report issued by the National Alliance of Mental Illness.

The problem is, what with the Texas Legislature and our elected officials behavior, it’s becoming more and more difficult in Texas to determine what crazy is.

For those who think Rick Perry did well last night simply because he did not wet his pants, try this on for size:  Here’s is his answer to how he would solve the problem of China stealing our stuff off the internet machine —

“Listen, there are some people who made the statement that the 21st century is going to be the century of China and that, you know, we’ve had our time in the sunshine. I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that at all. As a matter of fact, you think back to the 1980s, and we faced a similar type of a situation with Russia. And Ronald Reagan said that Russia would end up on the ash heap of history, and he was right. I happen to think that the communist Chinese government will end up on the ash heap of history if they do not change their virtues. It is important for a country to have virtues, virtues of honesty. And this whole issue of allowing cybersecurity to go on, we need to use all of our resources. The private sector working along with our government to really– standing up to cyber-command in 2010 was a good start on that. But fighting this cyberwar I would suggest is one of the great issues that will face the next president of the United States and we must win.”

I am not as smart as newt Gingrich, and just ask Newt who is, but I have absolutely no idea what any of that means.  Apparently, he will fight the cyberwar by throwing unrelated words at it and giving tax money to his friends in private sector.  That’s certainly how he’s solved problems in Texas.

But my favorite moment of the night came when Rick got patted on the head.

Asked about Pakistan at one point, the Texas governor wandered from the topic to pledge that he would make all nations justify their annual U.S. aid payments. His “start at zero” policy might raise some alarms on closer inspection (cutting aid to Israel, are you?), but it drew a “me, too” from Gingrich.

When Gingrich commended his answer, Perry could be seen on a split screen with a look of pride — and surprise — on his face. He looked like a D-minus student who finally got an answer right in class.

Oh, Newt Gingrich, who fancies himself as smart as Bill Clinton.  I thought elephants were supposed to have a long memory but they apparently forgot that Newt resigned from congress under an ethics investigation, a fine of $300,000 and a nasty divorce.  Plus, the sound of his voice makes my ears beg for mercy.

Thanks to Theresa for the heads-up.

Okay, we’ve got popcorn, coke, and nerve.

Tell us what you think.

I’m not sure, but I think they just changed the rules and will operating this debate under Sharia Law, just for fun.

How come they call Newt Mr. Speaker? I got fired from a job once, but nobody calls me “Miss Carhop.”

Michele Bachmann thinks the ACLU killed Osama bin Laden and Gaddafi. That’s cute.

Well, I can’t get it to work online. Has Perry gone to sleep yet?