So you own an AR-15.  Where would you store it?

North Carolina Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers husband reported that an AR-15 was stolen from their unlocked garage.

The rifle had been left leaning against a gun locker in the unsecured garage after a target shooting outing, according to a police report. The report didn’t indicate whether the rifle was loaded.

Of course, Ellmers is a big Second Amendment person and her website says —

Although she believes that gun owners must be responsible for the use and care of their guns, she does not want to see law-abiding gun owners penalized for the actions of criminals.

Responsible?

And this is the same Ellmers who voted for the government shutdown but refused to give up her salary.

As some North Carolina congressional lawmakers defer pay during the shutdown, GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers is refusing to do so — and her remarks are drawing the attention of an advocacy group.

“The thing of it is, I need my paycheck. That is the bottom line,” Ellmers told WTVD, the Raleigh ABC station, Wednesday.

But, of course, other government workers didn’t.

You gotta admire Republicans – they are so good at telling Democrats what’s best for them.

You know how Republicans are always whining that the President won’t “negotiate” with them?  And how he’s so mean to them?

Take a look at this Facebook entry from Dick Durban.

And for those of you without Facebook —

I do not know any answer to that kind of insult other than, “Oh, such Noel Coward-esque wit!”   Or, that failing, perhaps, “I know you are but what am I?”

I know their purpose is to make him the angry black man, but I swear to God in Heaven above that instead they have made me the Snickering White Woman.

Names, Durban, I want names.

UPDATE:  The White House is saying that it didn’t happen.  Hummm ….

Thanks to Nancy for the heads up.

Ted Nugent, the self-proclaimed “madman” who thought all it took was a haircut to clean up his image, has just put joy and happiness into the heart of every Texas Democrat.

This morning Texans opened their newspaper to see —

Honey, that was more welcome than a cold front in July.

Sid Miller: Transvaginal Sonogram King

Miller, who was the author of the fetal sonogram bill in the Texas Lege was defeated for re-election in the GOP primary.  And what does a defeated diehard fetal sonogram supporter do?   He runs for agriculture commissioner, of course. Rumor has it that he was going to run for Railroad Commissioner until he found out that didn’t mean he got to drive the train or blow the whistle.

Nugent calls Miller his “American blood brother.”  I suspect it’s because both of them are so anxious to get into vaginas – one way or another.

Yes, I said that and I’m putting it on a campaign poster.

And please let us not forget —

Nugent has been an outspoken and inflammatory critic of President Barack Obama, even comparing him to a nazi and asserting in 2012 that he would be “dead or in jail by this time next year” if Obama were re-elected.

So we know he doesn’t keep his promises.

I should mention here that Kinky Friedman is threatening to run for Ag Commish as a Democrat on the “Cheech and Chong” platform.  Kinky just spins the wheel for what office and what political party he runs on every year.

Thanks to Carol and Kyle for the heads up.

*Another Nut in Texas

We have so many rightwing nuts in Texas that I suspect I need to make a glossary of them for you to keep up.

In my mind, Steve Stockman is the cream of the crop.  The only reason that you don’t hear about him much is because he’s kinda a loner.  He accidentally got elected back in 1995 and the voters threw him out after one term.  Since then he’s been homeless, bankrupt, found Jesus, and got himself elected again as a reborn tea partier.

He is obsessed with impeaching President Obama.

Now he’s hired a lawyer named Bill Olson, who ain’t exactly cooking with gas.  He says Olson is looking into the possibility of impeaching President Obama because, you know, all that was lacking in previous attempts was a lawyer whose partner sells food supplements to cure cancer.

The Olson law firm is now investigating impeaching Obama.  And as popular as Republicans are with the general public right now, I suspect that President Obama is not sleeping well at night worrying about this.

So, if you happen to run into Steve, tell him to keep up the good work, except he needs to be louder!

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Kevin Swanson is preacher man.  He is not fond of Girl Scouts.  And their damn cookies.

“I’d say you ought to say no to the Girl Scout cookies,” Swanson told listeners. “I don’t want to support lesbianism, I don’t want to support Planned Parenthood and I don’t want to support abortion, and if that be the case I’m not buying Girl Scout cookies.”

Swanson also called the Girl Scouts of the USA  ”a wicked organization,” that doesn’t promote “godly womanhood.”

To be very honest, I do not know what godly womanhood is but I suspect it has to do with fixing Kevin Swanson’s dinner.

But, you know, for such a handsome devil, I pretty much think any free minded woman would surrender her scouting abilities to drop everything and cook for Ole Kevin.

But there is an “out” for those of you totally addicted to Girl Scout cookies.

Swanson said that if listeners continue to buy Girl Scout cookies, they should “take a big, fat, black magic marker” and “start marking out all of the references to the Girl Scouts of America on all the boxes.”

Yeah, because it’s the nakkid boxes that make you lesbian.

And you can thank the good people at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc., for saving you from the wicked box labeling.  That’s just another of the cheerful free services we offer here.

Please take the time to watch this and know that the tide is turning in Texas.

This is just the first one to bail.