Over at the Texas Republican Party headquarters the only sound you hear is a spoon banging on a high chair tray, and an occasional waaaa…waaaaa.

Texas Republicans are whining that they aren’t getting preferential treatment at the Republican National Convention.   They are peeved that they have been “relegated to “the boonies” at a remote golf resort.”  Yeah, you read that right – the boonies at a golf resort.

“If I weren’t state chairman, if I were a delegate, I probably wouldn’t go,” state GOP leader Steve Munisteri said of the late-August presidential nominating event.

Uh, Steve, Dude, I think that’s what they were shooting for.

After all, you are the party of —

And Texas Republicans, you’ll be delighted to know, are not near as stoopid as they act.  They have one thing semi-figured out:

Munisteri said the state’s political donors, volunteers and activists are being taken for granted. Others suspect Rick Perry’s failed presidential bid — and attacks on eventual nominee Mitt Romney — are bringing punishment upon the Texas GOP.

Ya think?  Ya think Mr. Oops might have something to do with it?

In truth, it was the perfect storm.  National Republicans don’t want people remembering the Bushes, Rick Perry or that Texas Republicans wrote the craziest damn platform ever put on paper, even if it is written in crayon.  And then there’s that whole having to frisk the Texas delegation at the door for guns.  That’s real time consuming.

You’ll want to know that Texas Democrats are only 15 miles away from the convention site in Charlotte. They aren’t whining.  They are proud of their Presidential candidate and figure that just being there is important enough.

Thanks to Elizabeth for the Toon and Mary for the story.

Oh, lookie here what Deb found for us.  Romney saying it’s not a tax but an “assessment.”

One day that poor man is going to tie his tongue in a knot and choke on his chokes.

Juanita wants to know if her customers  who live in places where climate change is NOT happening because it doesn’t exist are okay.  This is NOT climate change.  This bad weather is just Jesus sneezing.

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Glenn Beck is having himself one of those football stadium rally events at Cowboy stadium.  His is called, ironically, “Restoring Love.”  The man who has mastered name calling and taken hatred to an art form wants to restore love. That’s so nice.

He says that people are coming from all over the globe.

There are some who are concerned about Glenn’s charity not exactly being a charity.  I am not one of them.  I figure these damfools would give their money to teevee preachers if they weren’t giving it to Glenn.  Plus, the way I see it, that’s just a lot less money they can spend on ammo and tube tops.  I mean, that’s gotta be a cultural improvement.

Did I mention that one of their raffle items is a “Ted Nugent signed calcified moose skull.”  Now there’s another guy who is all about love.

Besides, Glenn Beck is all about love and faith and restoration and little baby kittens and grandma kisses and chalk.  He’s big on chalk.

Now, I have to admit that that seeing a global event in Cowboy Stadium in the middle of July with water selling for about $4 a bottle is gonna be fun to watch.

Did I mention that there’s a shooting range event billed as, “Join Marcus Luttrell, Tania Beck, Scott Robertson and others on the range for a few hours of shooting fun to support a good cause.”  They don’t mention what the good cause it but you gotta admit, nothing say love more than heavy artillery.

Did I mention that Michelle Bachman and Oliver North are coming?

Change that title – this sucker is a five ring circus.

Everybody has pretty much come to the realization that by turning down federal funds, we here in Texas getting more federal intervention.

About a quarter of the population is Texas is uninsured.  Governor Perry has announced that he don’t give a big bear’s butt what the Supreme Court and Congress says, he’s gonna do a Robert E Lee and claim states rights.  We have a goldarn right to die uninsured in Texas and roll up enormous hospital bills that people with insurance have to pay when they go to the hospital, by gawd.

So, it’s about as likely as a snowstorm in Brownsville that Texas can set up a health insurance exchange by the 2014 deadline, forcing the federal government to design and manage it until the Lone Star State steps up.

But there’s good news associated with that.

If Washington puts together Texas’ exchange, it will almost certainly be “more progressive and liberal,” said Mark Jones, head of the political science department at Rice University in Houston.

But, Rick Perry doesn’t give a rock with the N-word on it at his hunting camp about no damn ObamaCare.

In a statement Friday, Perry’s office said that Texas “has no interest in accelerating the implementation of Obama-care in Texas and will continue to call for the full repeal of this bankrupting and overreaching bill.”

Yeah, because it’s much more fun to bankrupt Texans one family at a time with enormous health care bills.

Now, if you’re from a foreign state you’re probably wondering why Rick Perry would rather have liberal Washington come run Texas’  health care program instead of doing it himself in a more conservative fashion.  There’s a good reason for that.

“We’re very conservative, and we’re very stubborn,” said Bill Miller, a lobbyist in Austin for HillCo who has represented both Republicans and Democrats. He described the Texas mind-set this way: “We’re not going to be smart. We’re going to be pure. It’s a point of pride, and if there’s something else we’re proud of, it’s our pride.”

Yep.  Bill Miller said it.  What Texans lack in intelligence, they more than make up for in rockwall stubborn and inane sanctimony.

And this guy gets paid money by politicians to come up with this stuff.  Good Lord, I’m free and I have this advice for politicians:  Try real hard not to do dumb stuff.

Thanks to Kate for the heads-up.