I just hate Republicans.

Governor Rick Perry gutted public education in Texas so he wouldn’t have to raise taxes so he could go make a damfool of the entire state by running for President.

Ole Rick is still prancing all around singing his own praises for not raising taxes and boy howdy ain’t he the financial genius that taxpayers just love?

Remember when your school supply list was a notebook, some paper, a box of crayons, a ruler, a protractor, and a couple of pencils?

Oh no, not now.  Check out the elementary school supply list right here in suburban Houston.

I added this up and, conservatively, you’re at $50 per kid not counting a Batman backpack.

Now let’s say you have two kiddos, that is a big expenditure.  So, the tax break I get is passed on to those who can afford it least – young families with children in public school.

Rick Perry raised taxes – he just did it on the back of public education.

And that’s another reason I just hate ‘um.

You now how Republicans are always saying how they support small business.

But only in theory.

The failed Republican Presidential candidates have left a trail of small businesses in a lurch across the county.  Michele Bachmann rented golf carts to ferry around supporters in Iowa and the guy who owns the golf cart company is still waiting to be paid.

Other Republican contenders such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum owe even more; their campaigns are $4.85 million and $1.69 million in the hole, respectively, according to their most recent federal campaign reports.

You know, the fiscal conservatives.  The talkers.  The guys who say we shouldn’t have a national debt.

“Sadly, we haven’t reformed the bankrupt tax-and-spend policies that we decried [through] Ronald Reagan some decades ago,” Bachmann said at a National Press Club speech in July 2011. “We have merely replaced them with a new and insidious scheme called borrow-and-spend.”

Turf Cars owner Cal Campbell says the Bachmann campaign left the golf carts on campus with the keys inside. “When we went to pick them up, they were destroyed,” he said.

Newt Gingrich will pay his Tiffany’s bill but not the services of a small business he owes.  That’s the way Republicans are.

I want you to listen to me because I am right about this.  You know how the Republicans say they want to balance the budget and pay off the national debt?  Honey, they are all George W Bush.

Mitt Romney has decided to ban the media from his fundraiser in Israel.

Damn media – they keep quoting him correctly and you know what that means … guffaw fodder.

On the other hand, reporters generally find out what is done behind closed doors because somedamfool always talks or leaves the backdoor open.

Romney has a history of delivering different messages to his donors when reporters are not present to hear them. At a closed-press fundraiser in Florida this spring, reporters from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, without Romney’s knowledge, overheard the candidate outline new tax policy proposals and suggest that he might dramatically downsize the Department of Education and eliminate the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

So if he’s willing to kill HUD and kneecap the Department of Education to get money and votes in Florida, can you even imagine what he’s promising behind closed doors in Israel?

And on the flip-flop front  —

The campaign’s decision to close the fundraiser to the press violates the ground rules it negotiated with news organizations in April, when Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination and began opening some of his finance events to the news media.

Romney’s position on issues is like the weather in Texas.  If you don’t like it, wait five minutes … it’ll change.

Thanks to David for the heads up.

That was the flip.  Here’s the flop.

Mitt Romney’s campaign has reversed a decision to not allow the media into a fundraiser here Monday morning, bowing to reporters’ demand that they be allowed to record the Republican’s address to some of his top donors.

Hey, it’s only Sunday.  It might flip back before tomorrow morning.

Stay tuned.

Dick Armey, the ohcrapyes he’s from Texas former House Majority Leader, was on CNN  following the Aurora murders.

Dick. Just Dick.

He says we should not have gun control because somebody could get in a car and run it into a school bus and kill people.  Guns don’t kill people,Dick Armey kills people – they die of laughter.

Follow this exchange.  As Soledad O’Brien points out that the suspect in the Aurora murders had no criminal record and could obtain as many guns as he wanted, Armey smugly brings up the whole well, cars kill people argument.

“If in fact he had not been capable of acquiring the guns, he might just as well taken a car and driven it into a school bus,” the tea party leader replied. “You can’t focus on the object by which a destruction was committed — be it a hammer, a gun, a truck, a car. Focus on the aberrance in the individuals that do this.”

“Why not do both?” O’Brien wondered.

“More people are killed in automobiles every year than they are guns,” Armey insisted. “I don’t hear anybody talking about banning automobiles.”

“But they say you have to wear a seat belt, right?” O’Brien noted.

“Whatever,” Armey quipped.

Whatever?  That’s his argument?  Whatever?  What is he, a fourteen year old girl?

And, as someone pointed out, we regulate cars a bunch.  You have to have it inspected yearly.  We limit speed.  We have stop lights.  Your tail lights have to work.  You have to have  tags.  You have to have a driver’s license.

Colorado does not require a permit to purchase the assault-type AR-15 rifle that was used in the Aurora massacre. Rifle owners are not required to be licensed and rifles are not required to be registered in the state.

Cars, however, must be registered and drivers are required to be licensed and insured.

Dick Armey – that’s why we call him Dick.

Thanks to Kathleen for the heads up.

In case you’re wondering where I have been for the past 48 hours, I’ve been busy.

Silver Democrats of Fort Bend has a headquarters and an Obama Shop up and running in the city of Rosenberg.

We did it all in Texas heat with no air conditioning so it could be ready for today’s meeting at the new headquarters.  We got the air conditioner working at about 11:00 so that meant we quit growling at each other about noon.

A few of us stayed around afterwards basking in the fact that we have a headquarters with wifi and a kitchen.  What else do you need?

Silver Democrats are all over the age of 55 and we are one damn fine looking group of people.  We had about 40 people at our meeting this morning and then a hunk of us all went to lunch together.

We start getting serious about this stuff in the middle of August so we wanted a place to call home before the cavalry shows up to kick hiney and take names.

Political prognosticators say that my county will be the first suburban county in Texas to flip.  Once it does – Barack Obama got 49% of the vote here in 2008 – Texas begins flipping.  Once Texas flips, game over.

I’m good tired, have about a gazillion emails to read, and need to get some laundry done before my whole house smells like the boys’ locker room.

That’s where I’m been.  Like I said, it’s a good tired.