The Birthers took another whipping.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the American Independent Party questioning President Obama’s American citizenship and eligibility to be commander in chief.

The appeal was filed by Alan Keyes and Wiley Drake, who ran against Obama in 2008 on the AIP ticket, and Markham Robinson, the party’s chairman.

I want to say something to Mitt Romney:  Honey, if you cannot stand up to wacky crap from Alan Keyes and Donald Trump, then maybe leader of the free world ain’t your calling.

Thanks to David for the heads up.

If there is ever any time I wonder if I’m a Democrat, all I have to do is remember Karl Rove.

His group, American Crossroads, issued a  Tweet about  Secretary of Commerce John Bryson’s car wreck.  They wanted to know, “How does @CommerceSec have 3 car crashes in 5 minutes and alcohol NOT be involved?”

Uh, seizure?

They quickly apologized —

Earlier Bryson tweet with hashtag ?#skills? attempted levity (before facts known) and failed miserably. We took it down and regret the tweet.

Levity?

Honey, these guys must be a riot at a funeral.  Can you even imagine how funny this would have been had someone gotten killed?  Wow – they could go on the stand-up comedy tour.

Karl Rove is a jerk.  He is training a whole generation of jerks. There was no attempt at levity.  That sumbitch will lie about lying.

Y’all, listen up.

David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz, the two Republican candidates in a run-off for the GOP nomination for the United States Senate from Texas, are doing the Pecos Promenade with a damn buzz saw.

An odd thing happened this last weekend.  Rick Perry managed to get booed at both the Democratic and Republican state conventions.  He took the stage at the GOP convention and said he supported David Dewhurst, his Lt. Governor.  Dewhurst is one of those Greed Republicans and Cruz is one of the Flat Earth Republicans.

“We need more strong conservatives in Texas, and we need more conservative Texans in Washington, D.C., including my friend David Dewhurst,” Mr. Perry said, ignoring the boos that erupted when he uttered Mr. Dewhurst’s name.

Dewhurst and Cruz have lied so much about each other that both of them have to walk around with an ice pack on their hineys just to keep their pants from flaming-out.

We have another six weeks to go before the primary – there’s hope that it’ll take them until November to wipe all the mud off.

Thanks to Irene for the heads-up.

I try so hard not to hate Republicans, but God forgive me, I do.  I just hate them.

I wake up every day starting anew, telling myself that I will not hate Republicans today.  I’ll disagree with them intellectually, but I will not hate them.  I’m semi-successful at this endeavor.  Some days I notice that it’s 8:30 a.m. and so far I have not hated Republicans.  I feel smug and sure of myself that I can go a whole day without hating Republicans.  Then I get out of bed.

By 10:30, I have talked to Sweet Jesus four or five times, asking, “What is wrong with these people?”

Indeed.

They met the night of the inauguration.  While President Barack Obama was dancing with his amazing wife, while people all over the world were celebrating that the American Dream is real – the child of a single mother, raised in middle class America, can become President of the United States of America, while African American and Hispanic mothers rejoiced that they were no longer lying when they told their children that they could become President one day, while people all over the world were trying to hope after eight years of a President even Republicans are now ashamed of   …. they met to hatch a plan to bring him down.  Not as a Party.  But as a man.

Show united and unyielding opposition to the president’s economic policies. (Eight days later, Minority Whip Cantor would hold the House Republicans to a unanimous No against Obama’s economic stimulus plan.)

They refused to even give him a chance.

Tomorrow morning, I’m gonna try one more time not to hate them.  But I doubt I’ll make it to even 8:30.  Just saying.

Thanks to Bud for the heads-up.

Here’s my speech to the convention.  The audio is pretty bad but I’ll add the speech at the bottom.

The speech isn’t the speech I wrote.  I cut four more minutes of jokes because of time limits.  I decided to cut the Mitt Romney jokes.  Don’t worry, I’ll use them later!

My name is Susan Bankston and I am from Senate District 18. I want to tell you a story about my friend que ganó mi corazón y mi mente, Gilberto Hinojosa.

I met Gilberto for the first time over a year ago in a bar in Laredo, you know, where women like me hang out all the time.  I met a man filled with passion and determination.  He is relentless for what he believes in and he believes that the Texas Democratic Party should stand for something.

I grin about folks who claim the title as THE Progressive.  I was at an SDEC meeting where some members tried to pass putting some progressive referenda on the Democratic primary ballot – marriage equality, decriminalization of marijuana, and a moratorium on the death penalty.

I saw Gilberto Hinojosa stand in a front of the SDEC and make an impassioned plea for letting grassroots Democrats have a say about what the Democratic Party should stand for.  He did not have to do that.  He wasn’t even a voting member of the SDEC.  He had the courage to take a stand when he didn’t have to. That is courage.  Today, he stands as the only candidate for party chair who was there.  That isn’t progressivism on paper.  That is progressivism in action.

And he’s determined to beat Rick Perry.

Y’all remember when Rick Perry ran for President, right?  It didn’t last long, but I was hoping you remembered.  He acted so goofy during his presidential campaign that afterwards, his campaign manager released an official statement denying that Rick was on drugs during the campaign, which I didn’t think was the right answer.  Are you saying that he’s just naturally that goofy?  Oh dude, I would have gone with the whole “he was stoned out of his mind” angle.  At least you can fix that.

Rick says he’s for a flat tax plan.  You know, flat — like the earth.

I know that’s mean to say about Rick Perry, but that’s okay because tomorrow he won’t even remember it.

I also brought my birth certificate today in case Donald Trump was here.  Or Greg Abbott.  Although I hear that Gregg Abbott not only wants to see my birth certificate before I vote, he also wants my driver’s license, my handgun permit, my firstborn, the keys to the magic hot rod, the  yellow submarine where we all live, and the heads of a couple of tort lawyers.

I have been a Democrat all my life.  And when the Lord calls me home to shake Franklin Roosevelt’s hand, I want to be buried in Tom Walker’s Duval County, where I can continue to vote Democratic.

In the Bible, which by the way, contrary to what you’ve heard, the Republican Party does not own exclusive rights to, man’s first question to God was, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”  That was our first question.  And the answer was yes, you are.

There is no religion on earth, with the exception of Republicanism, that says to worry about the rich at the expense of the poor.

We need a leader who has the passion, the progressivism, and the people.  Elect Gilberto Hinojosa.

The Texas Tribune did a nice story about the new Democratic Party Chairman. They also had a picture of him taken after he gave his speech.

Let me tell you how important I am.

My hair is a little bit in that picture.

Dude, I have famous hair.  A little bit.