Old timers around here know about the local connection with the whole James O’Keefe / Hannah Giles ACORN so-called sting.  Hannah is the granddaughter of our local Belles of Heaven Republican Women’s Club founder, who is very judgmental of everybody’s behavior but seems extraordinarily pleased that her granddaughter resembles a pavement princess.

Hannah’s grandmother used her influence to get Hannah special recognition on the floor of the United States Congress by Puppet Pete Olson, my congressvarmint.  Hannah even got her own webpage where she panhandles for cash, which is a whole lot like playing a prostitute except she ain’t playing this time.   And you can even make a tax-deductable contribution to her legal defense fund because it appears that she is a charity case and totally unable to actually work for a living.

And then there’s O’Keefe.  Oh, good Lord.  What a mess that Young Republican is.

This dumbbutt duo got some bad news earlier this week.  They are being sued and it’s going to court.  Apparently, the legal defense fund contributions bought some really bad lawyers.

Former ACORN worker Juan Carlos Vera sued O’Keefe and Giles in 2010 for allegedly illegally taping their confidential conversation to make the now infamous “ACORN pimp” video. After the heavily-edited video was released in 2009, Vera was fired from ACORN and Congress later voted to defund the organization, which led to its bankruptcy.

The judge ruled that Giles and O’Keefe did, in fact violate this man’s privacy and I am certain that when a jury sees the heavily edited tape as opposed to the full tape, Giles and O’Keefe may have to earn their living the way the used to pretend to do.

However, it appears that the right to heavily edit is covered under the Republican view of the First Amendment.

Thanks to all the oldtimers around here who know that I love this local connection for the heads up.

I hadn’t heard about Upworthy until this morning.  I’ve been piddling around on there instead of working this morning.  It’s worth your time.

Do not miss the Soledad O’Brien and Johnass Sununu exchange.  I love how she kept her cool and just let him talk his way into the pits of hell.

Thanks to Llana for the heads-up and my new time sponge.

The GOP nominee for the Texas Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison makes bologna look pure.  Ted Cruz is an opportunistic self-promoter with absolutely no moral center and the ethics of a tomcat.  And those are his good points.

Dana Milbank had an opportunity to meet Ted Cruz and came away with his Bullcorn Detector red lining.

Milbank is hoping that Cruz is just scamming the Tea party to get them to vote for him, and offers up this thought —

Maybe I’m kidding myself, but I prefer to believe Cruz is playing the tea party for his own gain. The Senate can tolerate an operator more easily than another ideologue.

The problem with that is that Cruz needs the Tea Party to be re-elected so he will vote their way and scream their soundbites and dig his heels in and pride himself on being Louie Gohmert’s voice in the Senate.

It doesn’t matter if he believes that crap or not.  He will vote that crap.

And every single time Ted Cruz opens his mouth the crazy meter gets a jolt.

Ann Romney was quoted this morning as saying that they were not going to release any more tax returns.

She said that releasing more details on the family’s taxes would merely give the Obama campaign “more ammunition.”

Actually, Ann, we really don’t need any more ammunition.  We just need a bigger clip to hold all the ammunition we do have.

Thanks to Scott for the heads up.

Quit, Mitt.

Seriously?  You think that cutting Public Broadcasting and Amtrak is the answer?

Romney identified subsidies for Amtrak, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities as things he would eliminate. The government spends $444 million a year on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the parent organization of PBS); Amtrak received $1.56 billion in federal funding in 2010, with $1.3 billion in stimulus funds; while the National Endowment of the Arts lists the current level of federal funding at approximately $146 million.

Yeah, let’s cut things that have the word “public” in them.  Public is a bad word.  Arts – there’s another bad word.  Amtrak?  Let them eat cake in their Rolls Royce.