And to think we won’t have Steve Stockman to kick around any more.

There’s more pictures here.  I only give you this link because Stockman keeps his clothes on.  At least in the pictures.

Young Republicans party hardy.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Governor, is once more not happy with President Obama.

Although he has no suggestions as to how to handle the situation in Ukraine, he feels sure that the whole thing would just go away if people would just stop saying that President Obama is smart.

Yep, that right there is the solution.

This president is often praised for his intelligence. The events in Crimea should spur us to revisit that notion, or at least to mark the difference between wisdom and intelligence.

But, Jindal has that wisdom.  He says …

… wise presidents have always understood that American weakness leads to violence, American strength to stability.

Oh yeah, that’s why we had stability under Bush and violence under Clinton.  No, wait.  The people at the WMDBS, Inc. corporate headquarters are telling me that I have that backwards.

I’m wondering about Jindal’s thought processes here, too.  He whimpers that, “our president is reducing the size of our military and boasting about the record number of Americans on food stamps.”  Oh, so Bobby wants to be North Korea.  Well hell, Bobby, if that’s your solution, see if Dennis Rodman will help you out.

Have I told y’all today that I hate these people?  “Be strong” is not a solution.  “Bring it on!” didn’t work, Bobby.  They brought it and our economy tanked and our soldiers died.

Cripes, offer a solution or sit down and shuddup.

Okay, so perfectly good frisky time got a little carried away in Tennessee.

Tammy Lynn Harris, 41, and her boyfriend, Jeff David Massey, 24, were in bed at 11:45 on Sunday morning when the police were dispatched.

Detective Joshua Fisher said Harris and Massey were lying in bed and Massey was about to clean the gun when it discharged, striking him in the left hand. The bullet then struck Harris in her right leg, Fisher said.

They say it’s accidental.  I’d say that Tammy Lynn has real bad taste in boyfriends.

Republican Steve King of Iowa, who is no slack in the nut job department, is warning businesses that gay people might try to trick them into refusing service just so they can be sued.

Okay, I know that’s kinda hard to think about without getting a headache.  So, here’s the downtown lowdown on his thinking.

The congressman went on to imply that LGBT people are making their identities known in order to entrap business owners into discriminating against them.

“The one thing that I reference when I say ‘self-professed,’” he said, “is how do you know who to discriminate against? They have to tell you. And are they then setting up a case? Is this about bringing a grievance or is it actually about a service that they’d like to have?”

The idea is that gay people will walk into a flower shop and announce, “I’m gay and I want a dozen roses.”  Or maybe, “I’d like to be seated in the gay section of this restaurant, please.”  Or, “Hi, I’m gay.  Cry me a river.”  And then if they don’t do it, the gays will sue them.

King explains why he believes that being gay does does not qualify anyone for equal rights.

“If it’s not specifically protected in the Constitution,” he said of civil rights protections, “then it’s got to be an immutable characteristic, that being a characteristic that can be independently verified and cannot be willfully changed.”

You know what I think?  I think King desperately and fabulously wants to be the independent verifier of gay.

That’s what I think.

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.

Actual article in the Houston Chronicle.

Actual headline.

So if he speaks and doesn’t weewee in his pants or laugh hysterically at a ta-ta pun, he’s suddenly Cicero?

Dude, that right there is some of that “soft bigotry of low expectations.”

But, it certainly got Grover Norquist excited!

Grover Norquist, the influential conservative who serves as president of Americans for Tax Reform, thinks there are only six Republicans who can win the 2016 Republican nomination for president.

His list, which he told Business Insider in an approximately hour-long interview Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

Lookie here:  Bobby Jindal doesn’t walk on his tippy toes now, Chris Christie is still trying to bridge that ethics gap, people have forgotten all about that Bush family thing, nobody knows Scott Walker, and Rand Paul almost isn’t as crazy as his dad.  What does that leave you:  Rick Perry can read a speech!  Go Rick!