They put it in graph form.  How much per vote did Rick perry spend in Iowa?

Being as how I am not a highly trained paid political consultant, I suspect my opinion doesn’t count for much, but wouldn’t he save himself some money and Texas some embarrassment if he just stood on the street corner handing out $500 bills?

Thanks to Dianne and Jimbo for the heads-up.

Texas Congressvarmint and bon vivant crazy man, Louie Gohmert is most likely one of the wackiest people in congress.

Come to find out, Louie, who hates government, has been on the government teat his entire life.  He’s a professional teat sucker.

Gohmert was elected as a state district judge for Texas’s 7th Judicial District comprising Smith County (Tyler) in 1992 and was reelected two times before being appointed by Governor Rick Perry to fill a vacancy as Chief Justice on Texas’s 12th Court of Appeals

Now, we pay our judges pretty well in Texas, but Louie is the 11th poorest man in Congress.

Gohmert had an average net worth of -$150,001 in 2010.

Fiscally conservative?

Probably not.

Remember:  Gohmert voted against the Budget Control Act of 2011 on the grounds it did not do enough to deal with the government’s growing debt.

Need a mirror, Louie?

Thanks to Ralph for the heads-up.

According to Gail Collins of the New York Times, Governor Rick Perry decided to re-enter the Presidential race while jogging.

After his fifth-place finish in Iowa, Rick Perry suspended his campaign but then tweeted, “Here we come, South Carolina.” This appeared to surprise some of his staff, who seemed to feel as if their long political nightmare had ended in Des Moines. But it turned out that Perry had jogged his way back into the race.

“I was out on the trail when it kind of came to me,” he said.

As you might have been taught in kindergarten, not every idea you have while drifting off to sleep or out jogging is a good idea.

Apparently, Governor Rick Perry has had some other ideas about this whole secessionist thing while he was out jogging.

Boats!  Dammit, the Texas Highway Department needs boats!  Big ole fast boats!

With guns, no, cannons.  Nah, make that big ole honker  machine guns.  Loud ones!

And one of these won’t cut it.  We need a fleet of these suckers!

“A new fleet of patrol boats is poised to join the battle along the Rio Grande and international lakes.”

Honey, don’t you think this is a little overkill for Falcon Lake?

Governor Perry now has a fleet of six of these boats at $580,000 each.  They were funded by the Texas-is-so-broke-we-can’t-buy-textbooks-or-provide-health-care-for-poor-children Legislature and the dreaded, awful, socialist Federal grants.

I swear to God that he’s gonna put these suckers on the Sabine and Red Rivers and declare himself President of Texas.

Thanks to Brian and Laura for the heads-up.

Okay, I didn’t know how else to write that headline so you’d be mentally prepared for this.

Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire have decided that any new law passed this year must “include a direct quote from the Magna Carta which sets forth the article from which the individual right or liberty is derived.”

Okay, so going back to 1776 isn’t far enough for them.  Feudal England’s the ticket to freedom, dammit!  This means we have to release hostages held by the king and that no member of the d’Athée family can be a royal officer.  And that’s just for starters.  We have to restore disseised Welshmen and forgive twenty-five of the rebellious barons.  But, in the end, we have to run the whole thing by the Pope.

Now look, I consider the Magna Carta to be the greatest legal document ever written in the English language, but holy crap I doubt it says a whole lot about wiretapping or traffic laws.  On the upside, it does say that a widow is not required to remarry if she doesn’t want to, which is overly progressive in the religious right’s mind.

My favorite quote?

Upon seeing the bill, New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Ray Buckley said he was “mostly speechless.” “I appreciate all the hard work the Republican legislators are putting into the effort to make them look like extremists,” he said. “Saves us the trouble.”

And one of the bill’s Republican sponsors just couldn’t miss the opportunity to say this to the reading public —

Vita admitted he needs to “bone up” on the content of the charter, but said “it’s a document that still functions.”

Don’t say “bone up,” Dude.  Just don’t say that.

Thanks to Nancy for the heads-up.

Well, damn.  Just damn.

Less than 12 hours after he announced he was heading to Texas to “reassess” his campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) tweeted Wednesday morning that he plans to compete in the South Carolina primary.

Well, there’s always the possibility that Ron Paul is offering Rick “some help” on his tweeting.

Rick Perry this morning. Anybody see a burning bush?

I wondering which finger he’s holding up there.