Charles Pierce wrote in Esquire Magazine this month about the vast number of crazy people serving in congress.

He mentions California Congresskook Tom McClintock who pretty much said there is no white collar crime.

At a town hall meeting in El Dorado Hills, California on Tuesday, a constituent asked McClintock for his “stance on Wall Street criminal practices.” The congressman responded, “Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.”

He also talks about Steve Stockman in Texas, of course, who is a serial liar and now rodeo clown entrepreneur.

But the Crazy People Emperor for Life?  Louie Gohmert.

And we are indeed honored.

Thanks to Just Suze for the heads ups and John for the art.

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Okay, the Travis County (Think Austin) District Attorney’s Office is given the responsibility of investigating and prosecuting public corruption all oer Texas.   The last DA, Ronnie Earl, got the indictment against DeLay and the current DA, Rosemary Lehmberg, got the conviction.

Lehmberg got arrested for and plead guilty to DWI last April.  She spent 45 days in the county jail and took her full punishment.

Rick Perry wants her to resign because she’s a Democrat.  If she resigns Perry will get to appoint a Republican District Attorney and start indicting every damn Democrat in Texas.

She refused to resign.  She wanted to.  She really did.  But, she knew the price of her resignation was a Republican District Attorney who would immediately drop all charges against Tom DeLay and indict the etire Democratic Texas Senate.

She stayed put.

So, Rick Perry threatened her.

Yes, ma’am he did.  Threatened her plan and simple.  He told her either you resign or I will veto funding for the public integrity unit.  This stuff got very serious when the Republican Lt Gov obviously falsified time documents following the Wendy Davis filibuster.

In June, Perry made good on his veto.

Then comes —

In a two-page complaint filed shortly after Perry’s veto, the head of Texans for Public Justice accused Perry of possibly violating laws regarding coercion of a public servant, bribery, abuse of official capacity and official oppression.

“Governor Perry violated the Texas Penal Code by communicating offers and threats under which he would exercise his official discretion to veto the appropriation,” wrote Craig McDonald, the group’s executive director, in the June 26 complaint.

Travis County recuse themselves so it got tossed to neighboring Williamson County.  The judge there is appointing a special prosecutor to investigate.

With any luck at all, Rick Perry and Don (oops – Tom) DeLay will eventually be sharing a jail cell or a joint appearance on Dancin’ With the Felons.

Thanks to everybody for getting excited about this.

Take a deep breath and start counting up how much this cost the taxpayers of Texas.

There’s a little compound outside of Arlington (think Dallas) that grows its own food on a plot of land about the size of half a football field.

On August 2nd the police show up and say they have information that marijuana is being grown there.  Their source was “a tip” and “aerial surveillance.”  No kidding, they had pictures.

What the police thought was marijuana turned out to be tomato plants.    However, they still felt compelled to uproot most of the crop – including okra and blueberries.  Just to make things look better, the people on the compound were ticketed for being out of compliance with the city code.

Look, we’ve got Dr. Sanjay Gupta going on teevee saying marijuana ain’t all that bad for you and maybe this war on drug thing wasn’t all that smart.

Yes, that certainly look worthy of police intervention.  I see collard greens!

Thanks to Bernard for the heads up.

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association believes the picture of Obama in the situation room was Photoshopped.  Obviously by amateurs.

On his electric radio show he said —

“Look at the size of his head compared to the size of the head of everybody else in the room. Even people standing in the back of the room, their heads are bigger than his head,” Fischer said on his show Focal Point. “And it looks teeny-tiny next to the people that he’s sitting next to. He looks kind of hunched over and small.”

He continued: “Frankly I think that got photoshopped in after deal. I think Obama’s approach was, ‘Hey, if this thing goes south, I don’t want to be in the room. I don’t want to be anywhere near this thing if it blows up. If it succeeds, if it’s an outstanding success, then photoshop me in there.'”

Honey, if the government was this good at conspiracies, we would have claimed that President Obama led the Seal Team into the bunker and shot Osama himself.

Fischer has said that President Barack Obama “despises the constitution, and nurtures a hatred for the white man”, and that he aims to “destroy capitalism”. Fischer believes that sexual orientation is “always, always, always a matter of choice.” He also does not believe in evolution.

He’s a busy fella.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Y’all, you know your state is screwed when it’s getting harder and harder to recognize satire.

Latest example.

Hey, it could be true.

Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.