The Texas Lege is not a beacon of intelligence or even a cesspool of extra IQ points.

They got all mad at Planned Parenthood and cut funding, including funding for birth control.  Then a strange thing happened.  People started having more babies.

This was not a predictable outcome in the mind of the average Texas Republican, which is kinda surprising considering how much they like to talk about hoochy.  You think maybe at some point all their sex talk would eventually come to the relationship between sex and getting pregnant.  Obviously, not in this century.   On the other hand, we’re just barely into this century.

Republican state Sen. Bob Duell said that the government should not be involved in family planning, “But you have to look at what happens if we don’t.”

My goodness.  He noticed.

But he did have kinda an unfair advantage.  He’s a medical doctor.  We do not know what he did with the money his Momma gave him to go to medical school, but he obviously slept through the human reproduction part because he missed the connection the first time around and voted to defund family planning.

Now it’s gonna be up to Bob to go explain all this to Rick in real delicate terms because Rick might have to back down, too.

A spokesperson for Gov. Rick Perry would not state a firm position either way on the debate, only stating, “Every two years we take a fresh look at our resources and our needs.”

Yep, every election time we decide who to kiss up and who to piss off.

So, the way I see it, you guys have to stop with the hoochy koochy.  It makes babies.  The Republicans don’t like you have sex or babies.  They want you to be all frustrated and mean, like them.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Ole Bubba and I went to see the lights in the Texas Hill Country this weekend.  Marble Falls was shiny.

And the courthouse in Johnson City was merry and bright.

Apparently this War on Christmas thing hasn’t crossed the Red River or maybe even the Mason-Dixon.

Holy cow, you can’t open your eyes in Texas without something twinkling at you.

It’s good to be home.

The Supremes are going to decide if the government needs to check your private parts before you get married.

Let me just remind everybody that marriage equality has a higher approval rating from the American public than any Republican official, Congress in general, and ironically, the Supreme Court.

Louie Gohmert has a new theory.

What was all the rage a year and a half ago? It was the Arab Spring and how wonderful it was! And this administration really embraced blowing out Mubarak – yes, do it up by all means – getting rid of Qaddafi. It wasn’t enough to send verbal accolades, this administration sent planes and bombs and support to oust Qaddafi so that al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood could take over Libya.

Yeah, and Obama killed Osama bin Laden just to throw you off his scent. Diabolical.

Thanks to Marcia for the heads up.

Mitch McConnell is overflowing with memory problems.

“By demanding the power to raise the debt limit whenever he wants by as much as he wants, [President Obama] showed what he’s really after is assuming unprecedented power to spend taxpayer dollars without any limit,” McConnell argued on the Senate floor.

This sounds awfully sinister. But it’s a knowing misreading of the Constitution, which provides Congress and only Congress the power to spend money.

Scary Barack Obama is going to barbeque the constitution and dine on the souls of our forefathers.  To viciously fight this hideous act, Mitch McConnell is countering with foam from his mouth.

Holy crap.  Somebody hand McConnell a copy of the Constitution and Kleenex or something.

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