You know, it seems to be that Ted Cruz is determined to piss off both political parties.  He calls us socialist communists terrorist bleached blondes.

And while he’s showing his butt to us, he’s thumbing his nose at the other party at the same damn time.

Paul Teller, who was fired in December as executive director of the RSC after leaking private conversations of members, will serve as deputy chief of staff for the Texas Republican firebrand, Cruz’s office said Monday morning.

In a statement Cruz said Teller’s “tireless work to advance conservative principles make him a tremendous addition to our team.”

So, a guy from the Republican House Study Committee who leaked information and got fired, got immediately hired by Ted Cruz.

And both of them are gloating.

First off, if he leaked at one place, he’ll leak in another.

Second off, he leaked to make himself feel important.  Can you even imagine how those two egos are going to fit into one office?  Whoa, that’s gonna be fun.

Third off, you know the story about the mother who saw her son in the marching band who was out of step and she remarked, “Look, everyone in the band is marching the wrong diction except for my son.”  That’s Ted Cruz’s Dad!

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

If you’re a school teacher in Nevada, here’s what we have for you.

You can now go into debt to buy supplies for your students.  In fact, they’re encouraging it and making it easy for you.  (Click the little one to get the big one.)

This is the Silver State School Credit Union.  A beginning teacher makes $34,684 in Nevada and probably has a truckload of college loans to pay off.  And, that teacher is expected to buy school supplies.

That’s a very cool way to keep taxes down.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

Sometimes it warms my heart to see political corruption in other states.  It sorta reminds me that I don’t live in the ninth circle of hell, just like the fifth or sixth.

It’s Wisconsin, where Michael Eisenga, the wealthy owner of American Lending Solutions, thinks he’s paying too much in child support.  He hasn’t be able to find a judge who will lower it, so Eisnga is going one better.  Emails between Eisenga’s lawyer and Wisconsin state representative Rep. Joel Kleefisch show that Eisenga was clearly writing the law to let himself off the hook for child support in exchange for campaign donations.

Michael Eisenga: For Sale or Lease

The fun part of this story is that Kleefisch is a religious right nut.  He’s just a little bit better than you and he’ll remind you of that every chance he gets.  Letting a guy who has made a fortune in the payday lending business by ripping off poor people buy you to get out of paying child support must be what Jesus would do, right?  Otherwise a fine Christian man like Kleefisch wouldn’t do it, right?

I’m beginning to think that steeples on top of churches are a measuring stick to see if you can stack money that high.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

Mike Huckabee, that snake oil salesman from Arkansas who thought he should be President to bring a moral center to the United States, has lost his radio show.

Huckabee says it was contract disputes and that he wanted to devote more time to “other endeavors.”

Yeah, got it.

Other endeavors like …. I dunno, preaching on street corners?  Shining flashlights into the parked cars of teenagers?   Finger shaking?

Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.

I hope y’all remember Alan Keyes.  I think he ran for president a time or two or four and generally was well known on the speaker circuit for being a man who could babble without drooling.

Keyes is back.

Writing today in WorldNetDaily, Keyes claims that most Americans do support impeachment but are being ignored by leaders in Congress. He doubts that America can “wait three more years for the chance to end Obama’s destructive socialist coup d’état” that is creating a “vicious, dictatorial regime.”

However, he is hopeful that Jesus Christ “has the power to restore [America] to the better path of human destiny” and help “the movement to impeach and remove Obama and his cronies from office.”

Okay, first off, since when did a fair and free election become a coup d’état?

Second off, you’re asking Jesus to help you defeat your political enemies?  What?  Have you been reading Rick Perry’s Christmas cards?

So Jesus is trying to get Obama impeached?

Speaking of insanity …

Thanks to Carl of the Tundra for the heads up.

Virginia is apparently not just for lovers.

Two prison guards take an inmate to the hospital.  One prison guard goes with the inmate while the other stays in the parking lot apparently “cleaning his gun.”  That, I know, is generally a euphemism for what perverts do in a parking lot.  However, in this case, police believe actual firearms were involved because they have blood and gore to prove it.

And that’s where the fun begins.

A Virginia Department of Corrections officer was wounded in an apparent accident Thursday morning when a firearm carried by another officer discharged in a parking lot near VCU Medical Center in downtown Richmond.

If you want to “clean your gun” in a parking lot, please try to make sure it’s not a weapon that harms others.

Holy cow.  I am certain that much inmate laughing has ensued.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.