Yeah, I finally saw it.

I was coming home from a watch party so I heard Rubio’s speech on the radio.  Even on the radio, he sounded like he was a ninth grader delivering a speech for student council, with marbles in his mouth, which might have fallen out of his brain.

Then I got home and watched it in person.  I saw Marco Rubio do a double reverse half flip Bobby Jindal on the reply to the State of the Union.

The radio people had already warned me about his really goofy move to grab water while keeping his face on the screen.  I’m sorry – that was not graceful.  The sad part is that he doesn’t seem like the type of guy who can make fun of himself so he’ll try to forget it ever happened but nobody else will.

Bless his heart.  No, seriously, bless his heart.  Nobody is going to look good following Barack Obama.  It’s a suicide mission.  And maybe that’s why Republicans are having their minority candidates do it.   Just saying …

And no, I did not listen to Rand Paul.  I’ve already read The Fountainhead.

You write this down somewhere so I won’t have to say I told you so.

Ted Cruz is just three pounds of bombastic in a two pound sack.

I think I broke Facebook and Twitter yesterday because I watched the Hagel vote.  Alone.  If Juanita screams in an empty room, does anybody hear it?  Well, I made damn sure they did on Facebook.

That chubby little Cruz jerk  attempted to attack Chuck Hagel’s reputation by suggesting that maybe he was buddy buddy with terrorists.  The truly weird part is that he kept saying, “I am not questioning his patriotism or his integrity,” and in the next sentence ask, “how do we know he didn’t have financial dealings with Iran?  He might have.”  Hell, he might as well have said “fellow traveler.”

There is something so promising about this guy being the next Joe McCarthy.

Write that down and keep an eye on him.  He’s dangerous.

I’m at a watch party. Please feel free to comment.

Thanks to Laura for the great picture!

It’s kinda my job to let you know that both Texas Senators voted against the Violence Against Women Act.

They hate the President more than violence against women.

Well, either that or they’re wife beaters.

Get this sack of dog dump.

Okay, Boehner, first I would like to thank you for reminding everybody that this President ordered a bullet to bin Laden’s head and that George Bush was scared of horses.  Sometimes we forget that Bush didn’t think about bin Laden very much because it scared him.

Second off, you argue that the President does not have the courage to go against his party.  That doesn’t take courage; that takes idiot.   His party elected him.  In a damn landslide.

America had a choice.  Your ideas or Barack Obama’s ideas.  You lost.  You got beat so badly that your grandchildren will be born shaking.  We knocked you cold enough to skate on.  We nailed your hide to the barn wall and gave you a what-for lesson.

The American people don’t want to cut spending.  They want to help their neighbors in time of trouble with Nemo or Sandy.  They think education is important enough to spend money on.  They think Medicare is a sacred contract with their parents and grandparents.  They think an honest day’s work should pay an honest wage.  They believe health care should be affordable to all Americans.

But most importantly, they know history.  They know that cutting spending during a recession is the worst thing you can do.  It would send the country into a full blown depression, which you, of course, is what you want.

There’s a difference in guts and gall.  You, Boehner, talk big for man whose breath smells of hen feathers.

Charter Schools are all the rage in Texas, garnering $1 billion (with a b) a year in taxpayer money.

Charter schools are the gateway drug to vouchers.  I don’t know about you but I’m not real excited to see Rick Perry’s friends do to public education what they did to cancer research.

So, it came to nobody’s surprise that charter school applicants were copying off each other.

Four groups seeking to open charter schools in Texas turned in applications last year that had sections copied from other applications and even claimed parts of another school’s public hearing summary as their own, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday.

The newspaper reported that, despite the copied portions, the aspiring charter operators signed the applications attesting to their accuracy with the hope of winning approval from the State Board of Education and gaining millions of taxpayer dollars.

The board largely dismissed concerns about the copied material. However, the head of the public integrity unit of the Travis County district attorney’s office said such practices could be fraudulent, though that office hasn’t been asked to investigate.

Of course they haven’t been asked to investigate.  These were charter schools for future mid-level management.  You know, where you learn to take credit for other people’s work.  Or to train future Texas Governors to go steal jobs from other states and call it “job creation.”

Thanks to Julie for the heads up.