Okay, so I understand the job of Vice President isn’t very important, but we can rest assured that Paul Ryan is ready and able for the job of washing clean dishes.  That certainly takes a load off my mind.

The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group’s Youngstown soup kitchen so that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan could get his picture taken washing dishes in the dining hall.

Brian J. Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, said that he was not contacted by the Romney campaign ahead of the Saturday morning visit by Ryan, who stopped by the soup kitchen after a town hall at Youngstown State University.

Hey, dude, calm down.  It’s the first honest work the man has done in 20 years.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Our local politics is always the best damn show around.  And I have a doozy today.

Let me bring you up to date:  Bruce Fleming is the GOP nominee for County Commissioner, Pct 1, a seat currently held by a popular Democrat, Richard Morrison.  It was recently discovered that there is solid proof that Flemming voted in two states in the 06, 08, and 10 general elections.  That’s a felony.

Bruce Fleming: Loves to Vote

Fleming was recruited and groomed by former GOP county chair Rick Miller, who is currently running for an unoccupied state representative seat.  Miller appointed Fleming as precinct chair on May 4th, 2010, knowing only that Fleming voted in the 2008 Democratic primary to vote for Hillary like Rush told him to do, not that we expected a felonious serial fraudulent voter to have any respect for the electoral process to begin with.

Miller then awarded Fleming the first ever “Precinct Chair of the Year” award over chairs who had worked much harder for far longer.  Eyes rolled and people couldn’t understand why Miller and Fleming were becoming close enough to share a buttonhole.

Fleming (second from  the left) and Miller (on the far, far, way out there far right) the night the first Precinct Chair of the Year was awarded.

But they were and it became more apparent as to why.  They are thug twins.

I’m gonna share with you something that fell into my hands from two different people.  It is an email exchange between Bruce Fleming and Sharon Roberts, who assumed the duties of county chair once Miller stepped down.  In this exchange, Fleming was upset because a 4th candidate in the GOP primary for county commissioner dropped out, so Fleming wanted to re-draw for positions on the primary ballot because he didn’t get the first slot, something that means “alot” to him.

You’ll understand better if you start at the bottom and read up, but you’ll be tempted to start at the top once you see his first sentence.  But, open the PDF and read it all.  It’s just charmingly horrifying.

Sharon,

Let me be frank with you. I do not “feel slighted” which is a predominately female reaction.
Do not assume you know my reactions or assign me a female response to events.
Whereas women get hurt (slighted), men get angry. I am pissed that the ballot drawing for the commissioner race got screwed up by you.

WARNING:  Momma, do not read this stuff because Fleming is vulgar man and you’ll get angry like, well, a man.  You’ll also get angry like a man because he quotes scripture right along with his vulgarity.

I haven’t heard yet what happened last night but I hope a couple of the women got angry like a man  (you need to remember this term because I am told that it will have even more meaning in a few days) and sat Rick Miller and Bruce Fleming down for what we call in Texas “a come to Jesus meeting.”

I love Texas Republicans.  They are so darn entertaining.  And for the most part they are also whiny ninny babies who stomp their feet and make threats when they don’t get their way.

Our local Republican Party is meeting tonight.  Only Executive Committee (elected precinct chairs) members are invited.  The announcement says, “no spouses, no campaign managers, no media.”  I guess trust is running mighty thin in the Fort Bend County GOP.

The meeting is probably illegal since the party is quasi-governmental body and they take state funds to hold their primaries. But, hell if I’m gonna read Texas law to them until after they do it.

A bunch of white people holding a secret meeting in a closed room.  What could possibly go wrong?

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.

I will tell you how much.

They are spreading a story that makes Hillary Clinton look like the real hero of the bin Laden take down.  They would rather make Hillary look good than President Obama, and Lord Have Mercy!, they hate Hillary.

The decision to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and kill him was made without President Obama – and actually was kept from him until after the helicopters already were in Pakistani airspace – according to a new report from a retired major general who cites a senior intelligence source.

The raid was handled by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta and others in this way because Obama had vetoed multiple earlier opportunities to attack the man behind the 9/11 terror attacks, the report said.

The report comes from U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, who retired in 1993 as deputy commanding general, Pacific Command, and has served as a senior military analyst for Fox News. He is now chairman of Stand Up America, which calls itself the standard bearer for the conservancy of the U.S. Constitution.

Okay, Paul Vallely, who hasn’t been in the military in 20 damn years and is a birther, would not be stable even if you mounted him on a tripod.

He is calling President Obama “oblivious” even though Obama does not even own a copy of My Pet Goat.

“This tremendously serious and sensitive information was relayed by a source who has been very frustrated with the continued dishonesty within the White House,” Vallely reported.

Yeah, right.  And the source speaks to Vallely in voices no one else hears.

Thanks to Barbara N for the heads up.

First, a little story.  I went into one of those month-by-month cellphone places which are outrageously expensive but are generally all poor people can do because they have no credit or bad credit.  I needed cell phones for a month for phone banking so I bought some and got a one month plan.

The young woman behind the counter, who was holding down the fort on her own, was efficient and pleasant.  We, of course, got to talking politics.  She confessed to me that she got paid $7.50 an hour and worked 10:00 am until 8:00 pm six days a week.  No overtime, no benefits.  And she had held the job for three years with no raises.  She gets Christmas Day and Thanksgiving afternoon off, but she gets paid for neither.  She said she doesn’t complain because her boss says that cheap labor is easy to find.  “I need the job,” she shrugged.

She is working 60 hours a week and she is the 47% Mitt Romney doesn’t care about.  Screw Mitt Romney.  Screw this woman’s boss.

Screw the Koch Brothers.

Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan.-based company run by the billionaire Koch brothers, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 employees of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary earlier this month.

In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that “many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences” of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company’s political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.

That’s political extortion.  It’s economic terrorism.  It should be illegal.

Republicans are the only people on earth who never have to be worried about being threatened by compassion.  Well, them and maybe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Y’all, I hate these people.  I do.

Thanks to PolishSpring for the heads up.