Maybe it was the glasses.

Rick Perry is losing donors faster than double geared lightning.  And guess who is picking them up?

The Cruz guy.

According to an analysis published by the National Journal on Friday, Cruz has raised more than $895,000 this year from people who supported Perry’s 2012 presidential campaign. Perry has raised less than half that amount, $376,000, from his former supporters.

See, men who wear glasses … seldom get money from major donors.

Here’s my prediction.  His superPAC will carry him another month, maybe two.  But unless he shoots an Isis coyote on his morning run, he has squandered another opportunity.

You know, I was so happy when he entered the race so I would have the opportunity to watch him make a fool of himself another time.  So far, so good.

Thanks to Gray for the heads up.

As I told you last week, the Republican Williamson County District Attorney Jana Duty got herself into a mess of trouble by jacking with a judge.  Even the cross between her boobs couldn’t gather out of trouble.

Williamson County Attorney Jana Duty

Jana fessed up and is headed to the pokey.

Williamson County District Attorney Jana Duty is going to jail Friday instead of appealing a contempt of court ruling against her, according to a court document.

Duty agreed to surrender her personal bond Friday and start serving her jail sentence, an affidavit to surrender filed Friday said.

The defendant in charged with following a woman out of a mall and then strangling her.  His first trial ended in a mistrial.

He was scheduled to be retried this spring until defense attorneys accused Duty and prosecutors of withholding time stamp information on a crucial surveillance video from a Wal-Mart that conflicted with the defense’s timeline of events.

Duty has said, according to court documents, that she never withheld the time stamp information but defense attorneys just didn’t have the right software to play it.

Yeah, right.  Wrong software.  Sure.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

I kinda figured that Donald Trump had a message that was ringing loud in Republican minds.

Now I know why.

In the August 6th Republican candidates debate, Trump answered the moderators’ questions with linguistic austerity. Run through the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level test, his text of responses score at the 4th-grade reading level. For Trump, that’s actually pretty advanced. All the other candidates rated higher, with Ted Cruz earning 9th-grade status. Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker scored at the 8th-grade level. John Kasich, the next-lowest after Trump, got a 5th-grade score.

I was wondering why my 18 month old grandson laughed overtime Trump came on tv.  Now I know why – my grandson understood what Trump is saying.  So do Republicans.

Thanks to Lindy for the heads up.

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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

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The temperature in Texas has been three digits all week, which gives it the distinction of being higher than the Governor’s IQ.

Here’s how we know that:

Our crumbling infrastructure and electricity deregulation has our Governor offering a solution for people getting heat strokes.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday made this appeal to Texans: Curb your electricity use, if you can – for the grid’s sake.

More specifically, the Republican is asking Texans to power down electronics in the coming days between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., a time of day when demand typically peaks.

So now we’re going to try abstinence-only with electricity, too?

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Remember that guy?  After the Clinton fiasco, it was discovered that Ken Starr was incapable of doing any kind of job whatsoever.  Luckily for him, that was the exact qualifications needed to be president of Baylor University.  Well, that’s not true.  There is a qualification.  Since it’s a Baptist school, they needed a guy who is totally obsessed about s-e-x.   He jumped at the chance.

After laying low for a while, Starr is trying to emerge as a legal scholar, which I suspect means he audited a few class and learned to read.

Starr appears in The Texas Lawyer this week arguing that Rick Perry should never have been indicted for official oppression even though Perry attempted to use his power of the veto to extort another elected public official.

Starr argues legal technicalities and mumbo-jumbo, but the most idiotic inane insane thing he says is this.

What has happened to the former Governor is not only unfair, it is a constitutional travesty. Our elected officials should be free to do their jobs, and the people should punish them at the ballot box for unwise or unpopular political choices. The criminalization of routine political actions, however, upsets the balance of power between a free people and those they choose to exercise public authority. Governor Perry should go free—and be exonerated now.

Ken Starr, y’all. Ken Damn Starr.  A man who spent millions investigating a President and the best he could come up with was a blowjob.  But now he wants to talk about the criminalization of politics?  Starr, sneeze!  Your brain is dusty.

Secondly, the “punish them at the ballot box” was the argument the Travis County DA made when Perry was trying to extort her to get her to resign.  So you’re willing to punish a Democratic woman by allowing Perry to take her job, but all bets are off when it comes to a male Republican good-ole-boy.

Ken Damn Starr.

Somebody get that guy some Rick Perry sex tapes.

Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.