Austinite Katie Heim was one of many to testify before the committee. Unlike the other testifiers, she read a poem she wrote, called “If My Vagina Was a Gun.” Read the full poem, below:

“If my vagina was a gun, you would stand for its rights,

You would ride on buses and fight all the fights.

If my vagina was a gun, you would treat it with care,

You wouldn’t spill all its secrets because, well, why go there.

If my vaginas was a gun, you’d say what it holds is private

From cold dead hands we could pry, you surely would riot.

If my vagina was a gun, it’s rights would all be protected,

no matter the body count or the children effected.

If my vagina was a gun, I could bypass security,

concealed carry laws would ensure I’d have impunity.

If my vagina was a gun, I wouldn’t have to beg you,

I could hunt this great land and do all the things men do.

But my vagina is not a gun, it is a mightier thing,

With a voice that rings true making lawmakers ears ring.

Vaginas are not delicate, they are muscular and magic,

So stop messing with mine, with legislation that’s tragic.

My vagina’s here to demand from the source,

Listen to the voices of thousand or feel their full force.”

Thanks to John Kwitkoski for creating this.

Okay, I’m real torn on this.

First there’s the sheer terror of Liz Cheney, Dick’s clone child, being a United States Senator.

Ms. Cheney, 46, is showing up everywhere in the state, from chicken dinners to cattle growers’ meetings, sometimes with her parents in tow. She has made it clear that she wants to run for the Senate seat now held by Michael B. Enzi, a soft-spoken Republican and onetime fly-fishing partner of her father.

When I first heard that, I almost strangled on my heart. Seriously.

But, there’s an upside.

But Ms. Cheney’s move threatens to start a civil war within the state’s Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family.

Mr. Enzi, 69, says he is not ready to retire, and many Republicans say he has done nothing to deserve being turned out.

It would bring about “the destruction of the Republican Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too,” Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from the state, said in an interview last week. “It’s a disaster — a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the Democrats for 20 years.”

Now I know that giving us Democrats for 20 years doesn’t come anywhere close to getting even for what Dick Cheney did to this country, but it might be fun to see Liz both destroy the Republican Party and lose.

I’d pay cash American money to see that.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

He’s not running for Governor.   In his speech, he took credit for everything that everybody else did in Texas.

He’s starting a PAC.

For those of you who think Perry leaving is a good thing, let me introduce you to Greg Abbott.   Perry without the compassion and charm.

Click the little one to get the big one.

Thanks to Kathleen for the heads up!

Come to find out, Ted Cruz comes by crazy genetically. It’s DNA based wacko.

Speaking to an audience recently at the “Free the People” conference put on by the industry-financed tea party group FreedomWorks, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) explained how his ultra conservative worldview helped shape his son’s outlook on President Barack Obama’s policies, which the elder Cruz said are “just like the dictator Fidel Castro.”

Yep, President Obama is just like Fidel Castro.  Well, except for the beard and that whole booming stock market thing. And seizing all church owned land.  And maybe that government run single payer health care system.  And the bloody revolution and the Bay of Pigs.  And outliving every United States President since Eisenhower.

Hey, but other than that – exactly like Fidel Castro.  Exactly.