Right here, right now:  The difference between guts and gall.

Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News.

The former President was also provided with a private jet to travel to Houston at a cost of $20,000, the officials said.

Holy hell on a rampage – the guy who got them wounded is charging them $100,000 to help them.  That’s $100,000 in blood money.

His parents live in Houston.  He couldn’t have come for free?

How much money is enough money for the Bushes?

Ding!  Ding!  Ding! We have a winner!

Here ya go – the Idiot Olympics is entering the final round and Jeb Bush has taken the lead.

According to ABC News, Bush was asked a question about tax reform during an interview live streamed on Periscope, and said he believes the U.S. can achieve 4 percent growth.

“Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows,” Bush continued. “It means that people need to work longer hours.”

Yes, that’s the solution!  And those child labor laws – so antiquated!  Weekends are for losers.  And if a Mom isn’t working at least three jobs while raining her kids, then she’s the cause of everything bad.

Way to go, Jeb!

I tend to cringe at the words Fort Bend County Republican Party. Those are some sick puppies with judgement sticks in their hands and overflowing hypocrisy mugs.

Every election year, they file complaints against the Fort Bend County Democratic Party at the Federal Elections Commission. Every year we answer the complaint and we win. They find some ole retired guy with absolutely nothing to do and it’s his job to tie Democrats up in paperwork for months.

We don’t reciprocate because we don’t have to. The FEC finds plenty to complain about on their own.  Most of the time it appears that they are playing money pool.  They bounce money around, trying to figure out how to make it all fit.  Or, hiding who gets paid what.

But the latest is a blast!  They show themselves to be $22,000 in debt but won’t say who they owe the money to or how they got so deeply in debt.  Here ya go, look for yourself at some very creative mathematics.

I’ve known about this for a while but I was waiting on the FEC to catch it.  They did.  Here’s the Holy Hell What Are You Doing letter right here.

Sneak Peek:

Okay, I admit a certain degree of glee over the mess they have made.  And glee that they appear to be deeply in debt.  And that they have paid a law firm for “legal and compliance” (aka God only knows what) to the tune of $22,805 this year alone.

Keep up the good work, guys.

Okay, let me tell you a little something about Montague County, Texas.  It’s out near Wichita Falls, and it borders on the Red River.  One good sneeze and it’s in Oklahoma.  Montague County is a thousand square miles and has a population of 19,000.  Obviously, the people who live there don’t like being around other people.

There’s one old fart in Montague County who doesn’t cotton to all this Supreme Court nonsense.  He has great pride in the self-proclaimed fact that he has two grandfathers who fought on the losing side of a racist war.

So, he put a 6 foot wooden confederate war flag on the front of his business.  It faces the county courthouse.  On it, he has placed the words, “Heritage, Not Hate.”  Yeah, Dude, but it’s a heritage of hate.

Here’s one minute of Hey Shuddup You Old Coot.

Enjoy.

Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage, is one dumb mean sumbitch.

There are more than a thousand immigrant asylum seekers and their families in Maine. LePage intensely opposes any state or municipal aid going to these people. He wants them sick, homeless and hungry even though they are fleeing violence or persecution because that’s just the kind of guy he is.

He is so against helping them that he used political pressure to influence the vote of his fellow Republicans.

The governor’s personal interest group, Maine People Before Politics, run by his daughter, even launched robocalls in Republican Senate districts during recent budget negotiations accusing a number of GOP senators of being soft on the issue.

He’s so mean that it ate up his brain and there is scientific proof.

It became clear on Tuesday night that LePage had failed to veto a number of bills within the time limit set by the Maine Constitution, including LD 369, the amended version of which allows those seeking asylum to receive General Assistance aid for a period of 24 months while their asylum claims are being processed and they are prohibited from working or receiving other aid. The bill had not passed the House by a two-thirds margin and a veto override attempt was unlikely to be successful.

Oh snap.  Oh chorus of Ode To Joy playing softly in the background while pink skirted ballerinas and cherubs with pockets full of confetti dance merrily in Maine.

Imagine getting to poke fun at Scrooge.  Dude, you’re an idiot and people get to eat tonight because of it.  Those are dandy words.

By the way, he botched the veto of 19 other bills he opposed.  This one was just my favorite.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.

Mike Huckabee is a hoot.  That man has more wacko prancing around in his head than Big Bend has roadrunners.

I guess when you have a big cavernous brain, there’s plenty of room for ideas to bounce around on each other and come out the opposite direction on the other side.

The boys and girls at the Washington Post made a play-at-home version of “81 Things That Mike Huckabee Has Denounced.”  They have it all documented.

32.) Profanity, as a root cause of mass shootings in America. “Mass profanity has always been a harbinger of mass violence.” (1998, in Huckabee’s book “Kids Who Kill.'”)

33.) Abortion, as a root cause of mass shootings in America. “Desensitizing.” (1998, same book)

34.) Violence on TV, as a root cause of mass shootings in America. “The average American child watches 8,000 made-for-television murders.” (1998, same book).

36.) Lack of religion in schools, as a root cause of mass shootings in America. “Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage.” (2012)

37.) President Obama, for saying that U.S. gun laws were a root cause of this month’s mass shooting in Charleston, S.C. “It was disappointing to hear the president…immediately begin to say, ‘All right, this is a great opportunity for me to grandstand.” (2015)

My personal favorite?

46.) Men who go shirtless on the street, because it encourages women to go topless. “Put on a darn shirt!” (2015.)

Yeah because women would never have thought of that on their own.

Thanks to Tina for the heads up.