Apparently the Trans-Texas-Goofy Train is still at the station selling seats.

Texas Senator and Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz has picked up a trumpet and a feathered hat and is marching with the band of folks who think Obama is going to take over Texas with 60 troops and a Humvee.

Get this.  Speaking in South Carolina …

“My office has reached out to the Pentagon to inquire about this exercise. We are assured it is a military training exercise. I have no reason to doubt those assurances, but I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty, because when the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration, the natural consequence is that many citizens don’t trust what it is saying.”

Okay, so either you trust the military or you don’t.  There’s no Obama stuck anywhere in that equation.  If Obama ordered the military to round up citizens and overthrow the government and the military followed those orders, then you’re gonna have sons and daughters arresting their parents.  Do you really think that’s gonna happen?

Ted ends his rant with this prize —

“Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”

Likewise, just because you have a college degree does not mean you have a damn lick of sense.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Honest to God campaign sign in the mayor’s race in Blanco, Texas.

No dog whistle needed.

Y’all, Glenn Beck is hinting that something pretty damn colossal and important is fixing to happen.

And he needs you to pray for him.

I beg you for your prayers because I will pray for you and you please pray for me, because this is the time. This comes every 70 years, there is a time when giants are made. And I don’t know if they’ll ever remember any of our names. What I know is at some point, I am going to be standing in front of God himself and I demand of myself that he says ‘job well done.’

Giants?  Honey, I do not know what comes every 70 years but I’m hoping for Beck’s sake that it has something to do with mental health.

I looked up what happened in the summer of 1945 and I seriously doubt there’s another Potsdam’s conference happening this year or that we’ll whip Japan again.  However, the Cardinals broke a 29 game losing streak that year, so that’s a possibility.

I disagree with the President.

I am against the TPP.  Paul Krugman, my pretend boyfriend, says it’s not as bad as labor suspects but it’s not all that good either.

And you have to wonder why the President would break with his base at a time when Democrats need to tend to their base more than ever.

I have heard some spirited takedowns of the TPP but the President has yet to give me a reason to support it.  Am I missing something?

I know this ain’t funny, but making global free trade funny is harder than it looks.

Texas Democrats in the state house are subjected to all manner of conspiracy theories and science fiction.  Bless their hearts, for the most part they have been kind and kept their noses to the grindstone.

But every now and then, they just lose it.

Joe Pickett, a Democrat from El Paso wanted to give the security detail at the Federal Reserve Bank limited power to arrest people.  You know, bad guys who might try to steal our federal reserve.

Republican Rep. Jon Strickland of Bedford was having none of that because, you know, it’s the FED!  We don’t like the fed and we certainly don’t want to give them arrest powers.

So, Strickland drew him a picture.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

 Oh yeah, it gets better.  Through the miracle of modern journalism, we can bring you a report from cub reporter Glen Maxey in the actual capitol of the actual state of Texas and saw all this stuff.

Check the comments from Glen in the appropriately named “comments” section.

There’s even a spiffy YouTube of Pickett whacking Stickland a second time.

Lesson of the day:  do not needlessly hack off the chairman of a committee where you have a bill pending.  Addendum to Lesson of the Day:  do not commit a felony to make your bill look popular.  

Thelma says those two need to kiss and make up.  I imagine that asses will be involved.

The whole story is here.

I know that being on the security detail of Mitch McConnell or John Boehner has to be where the chief of security sends you because we don’t have gulags in Siberia, but holy cow guys, don’t try to quit by leaving your weapon in the toilet.

When a member of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s security detail left his Glock and magazine stuffed in the toilet seat cover holder of a Capitol Visitor Center bathroom stall, a CVC worker found the gun, according to a source familiar with the Jan. 29 incident and two other disturbing instances when Capitol Police left loaded firearms in problematic places.

Boehner’s security detail did the same thing.

A member of the security detail for John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, allegedly left the firearm in the bathroom of the Speaker’s Suite on March 24.

Y’all unless Clemenza is hiding guns for Michael Corleone to shoot Sollozzo and McCluskey, I can’t see any good reason  for this to be happening.

By the way, the first Glock was found by a 7 or 8 year old boy visiting the capitol with his parents.

Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.