I admit it.  I enjoyed it.

I just saw Anderson Cooper interview Grover Norquist.  Ole Grover, who knows his numbers up, his 15 minutes are over, and he been relegated to the children’s table, tried to look relevant by claiming that a yes vote tonight would not be “a technical violation” of his pledge.

His reasoning was that the Bush tax cuts expired last night so the Senate bill is actually a tax cut

Bless his heart, he was more twisted than a barrel of snakes.

Honey, disco is less over than Grover.

Also, if you’re on Twitter, go check #fireBoehner –  the rightwing wants to fire Boehner and replace him with Allen West.  Yes, the same Allen West who got defeated.  Remeber when crazy Louie Gohmert voted for Newt Gingrich for Speaker?  Well, they are all that crazy now.

Okay, first Republican congressvarmints give up their statutory duty to originate taxing bills, then they say they’ll toss it to the Senate for them to come up with an agreement and then once the Senate gets a 2:00 am bi-partisan agreement on New Years Eve, Eric Cantor says no.

What the hell is wrong with him?  Is his thinking mechanism outta whack?  Was he baptized in vinegar?  Hell, something serious is wrong with him.

Then I see some damn fool female Republican congressscorpion on tv saying “They came up with a last minute bill and expect us to pass it?  That would be crazy.”  No, Babe, thinking this is a last minute bill is crazy.  What the hell is wrong with you?

John Boehner, what the hell is wrong …. never mind.  It’s the orange influenza.

Cantor was on teevee today STILL whining that the President made fun of him yesterday.  Dude, everybody is making fun of you.  You qualify as a carnival ride in 46 states.

Look, we’re not idiots out here in Real America.  We know this is a leadership fight between Cantor, Ryan and Boehner.  The last leadership fight like this was between Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Armey.  Hell, all of them are unemployed today, one is married to a woman so ugly that she makes your clothes wrinkle when she walks by you,  and one of them is probably going to jail.  You’d think that would be a cautionary tale.  But, nooo ….

Then I get an email yesterday from  some guy who claims to have been “a fan” of mine for years  but is not coming to my site anymore because I am what’s causing all the division in this country.  Hell, if I had that kind of power, I’d use it to make stoopid painful.  Toodle-loo, what’s wrong with you?

You wanna know what’s wrong with me?  I’m sick of them.  No more Miss Nice Juanita.  I’m going after them tooth and nail.

That’s my new years resolution, dammit.

Republicans are well known for not liking each other.  I have a long time Republican friend and when we have lunch and I say, “John Boehner creeps me out,” she replies, “Oh, me, too.”  When I say, “Rick Perry is dumber than bean dip,” she smiles and says, “Oh yes he is.”  I accuse her of not liking any Republicans since Abraham Lincoln.  She agrees that I am close to right.

One of the reasons that Republicans are Republicans is that they have no understanding of the social contract or sense of community because they can’t get along with anyone, including each other.  And in some amazing examples, even themselves.  Clarence Thomas leaves a trail of self-loathing everywhere he goes.

But, this guy appears to be a ringleader.

Run and Slash?

A man who ran for the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat is now in jail after accusations that he slashed the tires of at least one former rival, reported KOB Dec. 28.

A police detective in Albuquerque told the news outlet that a surveillance video of a man slashing the tires of Janice Arnold-Jones’ car on Dec. 20 “did appear to be him.”

Gary Smith sought the GOP nomination for New Mexico’s 1st District, but he was removed from the ballot after Arnold-Jones, his Republican opponent, filed a lawsuit that claimed Smith did not actually have enough signatures. The judge agreed.

Police said Smith may also have slashed the tires of other Republicans involved in removing him from the race.

One of his former opponents has spent $2,500 replacing tires.   I don’t know about you, but that would start getting on my nerves at about the $75 point.

If you don’t think that John Boehner would slash Mitch McConnell’s tires if he had half a chance of getting away with it, you are kidding yourself.  And Eric Conter would slash the tires of both of them and steal their radio, too.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

I have been watching the teevee and delighted in seeing the Republican congress pitch an indignant fit over President Obama’s speech today. They said he was disrespectful to them.

Really?

Let’s see, Congress has an 18% approval rating. That’s a dozen points below Paris Hilton and 10 points below a cockroach infestation.

President Obama has a 58% approval rating.

And Congress thinks he should respect them? Hell, their mother doesn’t even respect them.

President Obama took his 40 points out for a New Year’s Eve spin. I’ll bet you a slightly used New Year’s Eve noisemaker that his approval rating goes up tomorrow.

Happy new year and be safe out there.