In the real War on Christmas, Governor Scott Walker asked his supporters to donate to his campaign instead of giving gifts to their children.

“Instead of venturing into the cold this Black Friday,” it began, “stay in and give your children a gift that will keep on giving. This year, we are celebrating the Holiday Season with a Black Friday special that is better than any deal found in stores. Donate $5, $10 or $25 to help Governor Walker get reelected and save your children from a future of double-digit tax increases and billion dollar budget deficits.”

Wait until Christmas Queen Sarah Palin hears about this!

No wait, she’ll ask for the same thing.  In fact, by Friday it’ll be the only Christian thing to do.

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Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

One thing about kids – they work cheap.  Heck, they’ll sweep the front steps for a shiny quarter and wash your car for a dollar.

Paul LePage, the Governor of Maine, wants to utilize that good news and loosen the child labor laws.

Right now in Maine you have to be 16 to work.  LePage wants to lower that to 12 because “12-year-old children should not be restricted from working and learning life skills.”  I think the key words here is “children.”

At 12 years old getting through the day without springing a leak of hormones is work enough.  You can’t drive at 12 years old so that means walking to work.  In Maine.  Where I hear it snows.  And there’s more uphills than downhills.  While making for great stories to your grandchildren, I’m not sure being exploited as cheap labor is a “lifeskill.”

Republicans are determined to undo every labor reform we’ve had in this country since sweat shops burned to the ground.  And trust me, they don’t mean having their own kids work.  They mean your kids.

Hey, LePage, you know what they call a 12 year old forced into the workplace to take a job from an adult worker who needs a job? Two Democrats in training, my friend, that’s what you call them.

Texas Senator John Cornyn has always been a jerk but the day that Ted Cruz stunned everyone and won the Texas GOP primary against a moderate Republican, they took Cornyn down to Wildeyes River and baptized him.  Two or three times.  They also knocked his head on some river rocks a couple of times.

I am glad to report that he is no longer a jerk.  He is a full fledged dead solid perfect lunatic with a cherry on top.

Get this.

Not on my life, John?  Since when did you care about my life?  If you cared, you’d care that people could afford health insurance or that someone with a pre-existing condition  could actually see a doctor without bankrupting herself or the state’s medical funds.

Kiss my big blue butt, John.

Thanks to Frank for the heads up.

Just in case history does indeed repeat itself …

On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

… I am making a list of who needs to be next.

I mean, beside the obvious Ted Cruz.

You were wrong.

Tucker is back, as weird as ever.  His tales are still taller than they are wide.

His latest is to defend Lara Logan’s Benghazi story that was based on lies because “sometimes the best stories have flaky sources.”

Uh, really?  You mean like the Dominican prostitutes Tucker’s website attempted to pay to make up stories about Democratic Senator Bob Menendez?   You mean like that?

Tucker also whined about the unfairness of Martin Bashir reply to  Sarah Palin’s totally insane comment about African Americans not understanding slavery with a reporter on 60 Minutes who tried to make a name for herself by replying on a faulty source on a very serious subject.

Tucker Carlson:  Political reporting’s answer to Britney Spears.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Some of you may (or probably not) heard of Frankie Muniz who used to be on a show called Malcolm in the Middle.

His options have been oh, shall we say lacking, since that show ended so his latest career move is ObamaBashing.

He tweeted this:

The 27 year old really, really hates Obamacare.

Then, all of a sudden, Muniz develops health problems.  He’s had two mini-strokes.  He’s a mess.

Now, I want you to find me a health insurance company who will insure a 28 year old who has had two mini-strokes.  Raise your hand if you know one.  Hummm …. no hands raised.  I guess we have an answer.

I ask the kid to tweet a mea culpa but I doubt he knows album moths from shinola.  (And there goes 2/3rds of the Latin I learned in high school wasted on Frankie Muniz.)

Thanks to Mark for the heads up.