I want y’all to meet Jeb Hensarling, a Republican congressman from the Texas 5th congressional district.  He ain’t terribly bright so that’s probably why you’ve never heard of him.

What, Me Worry Hensarling

Well, Jeb tried to take on Soledad O’Brien while she was committing journalism.  First  off, Jeb could not for the life of himself explain in simple English why he was against a tax cut for the middle class and why he wouldn’t go along on raising taxes on the richest 2%.

Soledad pointed out that was President Obama’s platform and he got elected on that platform and so maybe that’s what the people want.

Ole Jeb got his feathers ruffled up  on that one and spouted off ….

HENSARLING: The President won 51-49. He has an electoral college victory. It’s good enough to get him re-elected but not enough to give him a mandate.

Where did this 51-49 come from?

Ya know, as I recall, Obama’s victory was much larger than Dubya’s but Jeb thought Dubya had a mandate.  Maybe that was only in Texas.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Public Policy Polling

49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m telling you – it was unicorns and rainbows in a coalition with Big Foot.

Mitt Romney is walking around barefoot in his jammies, wimpering.  Karl Rove has been kicked out of the worst bar on earth – Fox News.  Dick Morris is lisping his way to nighty-night.  The Koch Brothers are having to answer to their heirs and Sheldon Adelson is still so ugly that your clothes wrinkle when you’re in his presence.

And it’s all ACORN’S fault, dammit.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

Jim DeMint-ed is leaving the senate to become leader of the Heritage Foundation.   And all this time you thought that being a ultra conservation wacko Republican senator was rock bottom.  Silly you.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) will appoint DeMint’s successor, who will serve until a 2014 special election. That means two Senate races in the Palmetto State that year. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) — targeted by many of the conservatives who love DeMint — is up for reelection.

Okay, so here’s the deal.  With two Senate seats up in South Carolina in 2014, start figuring out a way we can deliver some good sense to South Carolina.  Hell, send it UPS if ya have to.

By the way, the President of the Heritage Foundation makes over one million dollars a year so I don’t think we can count on DeMinted wanting the rich to pay their fair share.

Thanks to TexasEllen and David for the heads up.

From ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee’s Facebook page.  Click the little one to get the big one.

While it is creepy that a so-called follower of Sweet Jesus would glorify meeting violence with violence, there is an even bigger worry.  We are told that Jesus will return like a thief in the night  (Thessalonians 5:2-4).  I hope Mike Huckabee doesn’t shoot him.

Over at Mike’s store Mike has a slogan. More conversation/ Less Confrontation.

Uh, obviously not.

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Every single one of you has emailed me about Louie Gohmert being the only congressvarmint to vote against taking the word “lunatic” out of out of federal codes .

There is a perfectly good reason he did that.

It’s his middle name.

Be nice.

Okay, so they’ve pissed off women, minorities, the young, the elderly …. who’s left?

Disabled people.

I suspect that this Senate would be paranoid enough and mean enough to defeat the any damn thing.

Yeah, screw the blind, the deaf, the lame, and disabled veterans.   This treaty might cause abortions.  And Y2K.  And warts on noses. And disco.  Hell, I dunno.

The opposition was led by Tea Party favorite Mike Lee, who argued that the treaty by its very nature threatened US sovereignty. Specifically he expressed concerns that the treaty could lead to the state, rather than parents, determining what was in the best interest of disabled children in such areas as home schooling, and that language in the treaty guaranteeing the disabled equal rights to reproductive health care could lead to abortions. Parents, Lee said, will “raise their children with the constant looming threat of state interference.”

That right there is a spigot of crazy crap flowing into a cup of schizophrenia.

I wonder if they just rolled Ole Bob Dole out to the dumpster after they defeated his plea for sanity.