Before he was Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott was Texas attorney general and spent $4.25 of taxpayer’s money suing the federal government, or as he liked to call it – “suing Barack Obama.”  Abbott knew that most of these suits were silly, but he liked to rack up numbers so that every week he could feed the hungry hordes in Texas who wanted him to sue Barack Obama.

That $4.25 million does not count the money the federal government had to spend to defend us against Abbott’s goofy and frivolous lawsuits.  So, just to be fair about it, let’s say it cost us $8.5 million dollars total.

Every now and then, I feel compelled to remind politicians that it’s ALL our money, whether it be city, state, school district, MUD district or federal government.  So when the county sues the state, we pay on both ends.

Anyway, as attorney general Abbott had Texas sue the federal government 31 times.  Here’s the scorecard with Greg Abbott as team manager …

Based on court rulings, Texas has definitively won five of those cases. In 10 cases, the courts ruled against the state. Nine cases are still pending, and the AG’s office withdrew the remaining seven.

Let’s see, 31 minus 9 (still pending) is 22.  Of those 22, Abbott won 5.  That’s hitting around 23%.  Let me ask you this.  Would you hire a lawyer who costs a ton of money proudly advertises that he wins a whopping 23% of his cases?  Or a heart surgeon who has 77% of his patients die?

Greg Abbott: a bad lawyer and an even worse governor.  We’re Texas Proud!

Thanks to David for the heads up.

From the Lexington Dispatch.  For real.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Apparently, Idaho is not a good place to be Jewish.

BOISE — A Boise woman is facing felony charges after police say she attacked a Jewish acquaintance, stomping on the woman’s neck as part of a bizarre bid to convert her to Christianity.

Margurite Dawn Haragan, 58, has been charged with two counts of malicious harassment in an attack police have labeled a hate crime.

Because Jesus loves you.

The victim is identified only as A.G.

Prosecutors say Haragan stepped onto A.G.’s neck as she lay on the ground, pressing down with her foot and pulling up on the woman’s head and hair. Eventually, the woman said she would become a Christian in an attempt to placate her attacker, Roscheck said, and Haragan let her go.

Hey, at least she didn’t try to baptize her in the bathtub.

Thanks to Maureen for the heads up.

Randolph Linn lives in Ohio, drinks beer, and watches Fox News.

Last September he set off a bomb in a mosque prayer room.  And he’s still damn proud of it.

In court on Wednesday, Linn plead guilty to the arson charge. He said that he had gotten “riled up” watching Fox News, according to the Sentinel-Tribune, and drank 45 beers in seven hours before heading to the mosque.

When people get riled up by MSNBC, they go plant a tree or feed some homeless people.

And there ya have it.

John Boehner is a jerk.  Seriously.  A self-important, blowhard jerk.

Now this morning we’re going to look at pure raw unadulterated hot off the presses illogical fanaticism.

When questioned by Mike Wallace about why Boehner invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to congress, and in essence deliver a political speech for his re-election back home where his poll numbers are suffering (he has a 38% approval rating at home), Boehner replies thusly …

Wallace then pointed out that Boehner asked Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., not to tell the White House about the joint meeting with Netanyahu.

“Why would you do that?” Wallace asked.

“Because I wanted to make sure that there was no interference. There’s no secret here in Washington about the animosity that this White House has for Prime Minister Netanyahu. I frankly didn’t want that getting in the way, quashing what I thought was a real opportunity,” Boehner responded.

He did not want the President to interfere.  In an opportunity.

An opportunity for what?  To make the President look bad?

Jerk.