Actual Sign on my way home from Austin —

And the actual real building that goes with it.

It just seems a little disappointing.

My favorite breaking news in a damn year.

John Boehner has to be sweating orange crush.

He’s baaaaaack.

After losing his tongue for a while, Louie Gohmert is back with Nazis on his mind.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said on the House floor Friday that liberals who call anti-gay-marriage Christians “haters” are subjecting them to persecution similar to how Nazis treated Jews during the Holocaust.

“It is amazing that in the name of liberality, in the name of being tolerant, this fascist intolerance has arisen,” Gohmert began.

Louie, have we called the lions yet?  No, we have not.  Calm your butt down, child.

Pointing out your intolerance is not intolerant.  Ignoring it, however, is chickenpoop.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up and John for the graphic.

Okay, campers, I’m in Austin today to holler at the Texas Democratic Party Platform Committee.

Our party chairman, Gilberto Hinojosa, put me on the platform committee.  Whether he’s the smartest man you ever knew or totally drunk when making the selection is up for speculation and your viewpoint.  I can promise you that the Texas Democrat roaches, who linger even after a decade of being proven wrong, losing everything, and throwing $11 million down the toilet, are still fighting for the “persuadable Republican” instead of firing up the base.  I have one thing to say, “persuadable Republicans” are like unicorns – fun to talk about but they don’t exist.

I will be there to fight for core Democratic values.  Y’all might want to organize a posse with some big ole encyclopedias –    not for the information but for the whacking upside the head value.

I’ll keep you updated if we get a break or some damfool drones on and on about how he dislikes section C, subtext 4, bullet point IV.

Bubba and I arrived last night and, as required by statute, went for Margaritas and tamales with some of our favorite people.  Little did we know that the hole-in-the-wall joint we chose for last night’s cuisine had won an award in 2005 from the Austin Chronicle, an alternative newspaper.

Here ya go.  It was hanging over the door as you exit.  Thanks to Mark for being tall enough to take the picture.  You might have to click the little one to get the big one.

If the Austin Chronicle cannot spell tortilla, then they are an alternative newspaper in every sense of the word – including spelling.

If you’re ever in Austin, their tortilla soup is amazingly great but their Margaritas are the worst ever.  The first hint was blue salt around the rim.

UPDATE:

We took it seriously and we worked nicely together.

I’m home.  We are going to have an excellent platform if it survives the convention committee.  I’m thinking of running for the convention committee.

Just when you thought it was safe …

Tom DeLay slithers out of his hole and hisses …

“This president is undermining the rule of law and the judiciary committee ought to start hearings on it,” DeLay said on his Washington Times radio program, adding that the House may also consider impeaching Obama to serve as a “warning to future presidents” about “undermining the rule of law.”

He also called for a House investigation into Obama’s purported “connections to radical Islamists” and his “leaning and having too much sympathy for radical Islamists.”

Tom, Honey, Barack Obama is the President and you’re going to prison as soon as you run out of money for your lawyer to keep appealing.  And you’re going in a damn hand basket to prepare for the afterlife.

Tom DeLay is a convicted felon.  Damn, I love saying that.

Thanks to Lorraine In Spring for the heads up.

Okay, okay, everybody is all “Damn Those Republicans!” this morning when it became apparent that the GOP had bribed Virginia Democratic State Senator Phillip Pucket to resign and thereby give them the power to reject Obamacare in Virginia.

Hell, I am far madder at the damn Democrat for taking the bribe.  We are supposed to be better than that.

Puckett

The bribe is that his daughter gets a judgeship and Puckett gets the job of deputy director of the state tobacco commission.  So now you have a guy sitting on the state tobacco commission, a job which involves awarding economic development grants funded by the national tobacco litigation settlement.  So you’re going to trust a guy who is bribable to sit on a commission in charge of millions of dollars?

And you want a judge who didn’t get there on her own but through her father’s under the table dealings?  You really want a George W Bush sitting on a court?

Terry Kilgore, a Republican who confirmed the deal, said, “I would say that he wanted to make sure his daughter kept her judgeship. A father’s going do that.”

What father is going to do that?  Certainly not mine.  My Daddy would have said, “Baby Girl, I believe in you.  I think you can be anything you want to be.  I want you to get it on your own so that you will always know that you did it yourself.”  Additionally, my Daddy would have never taken a bribe, especially one where people may die.

Look, I expect Republicans to be crooks.  I live in Tom DeLay’s old district, for pete’s sake.  I walk around at night with a lantern looking for an honest Republican and so far I’ve come up with diddle squat.

From this day forward when I accidentally hit my thumb with a hammer, I am going holler, “Puckett!”

And that’s what Virginia Democrats who let him get away with this can do.  They can Puckett.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.