Okay, so you’d think the Bush Boys would know that they do not have the necessary genes appropriate to conveying parables, metaphors, or, for that matter, speaking English proficiently.

But ya gotta give them an A for effort.

You know the metaphor where you put a frog in a pan of cold water and slowly turn up the heat?  And how the frog will not notice and allow itself to eventually boil?

Jeb! tried to explain the United States slipping into the horrific evil of something-or-other, and decided that a megaphone would be just grand.

Then, Mr. Bush went for the frog metaphor. And that’s where the problem for him began.

“It’s like the crabs in the, you know, whatever —the crabs in the boiling water,” Mr. Bush tried.

“Frogs,” an audience member shouted out, helpfully.

“The frogs,” Mr. Bush continued. “You think it’s warm, and it feels pretty good and then it feels like you’re in a whirlpool—you know, a Jacuzzi or something.”

He concluded with a morbid twist: “And then you’re dead. That’s how this works.”

Ya can’t get fooled again.

By the way, the horrific evil was free college tuition.

Thanks to Marge and Will for the heads up.

Tom DeLay lives in my neck of the woods and local Republicans still bow down to him when he walks by. I do not know why because he hasn’t had a job since he left Congress so he just goes from one Republican women’s club to the next trying to peddle his book, “No Retreat. No Surrender.” which is an odd title because retreating and surrendering is all he’s done his entire life.

So now he’s calling President Obama “a coward who has surrendered to Isis.”
He wants a “full scale war against Isis.”

Okay, so here’s this little short, chubby, balding man who has had more botox and facelifts than I can keep count of, and who has never served one day in the military, calling for war.  And calling other people “cowards.”

Yeah Tom, it takes a lot of courage to resign from congress instead of staying and fighting the innocence you claim you had.  It takes a lot of courage to walk away from your pest control business after stiffing your partner out of his life savings.  Oh, and the courage it took to refuse to testify at your own trial must have been mightily stressing on your grit meter.  How much courage did it take to close down the foster child care facility built with other people’s money and throw families out of their homes?

Silly Silly Tom, you even surrendered to Dancing with the Stars by whining about a nonexistent foot injury.

You have not earned the right to even talk about courage, you damn fool.

Okay, I have completely pissed off all my neighbors.  My work is done here.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Donald Trump is real, real, sorry to say this, but …

“Nobody wants to say this and nobody wants to shut down religious institutions or anything, but you know, you understand it. A lot of people understand it. We’re going to have no choice,” the Republican presidential said in an interview from Trump Tower on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Tuesday night.

So I guess I am wondering what other part of the First Amendment he wants to dissolve.

Let’s see, we can sell assault weapons to people on the terrorist list but we have to close mosques? Why? So they’ll use that time to join the NRA?

Are we sure Trump is an American?  Screw the birth certificate – I want a real test of citizenship.

Wanna get really pissed off?

Currently, some known or suspected terrorists are prohibited from boarding airplanes by the government’s no-fly list — but all are allowed to buy assault rifles and other weapons.

While the bill remained a nonstarter, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the U.S. over the last 11 years, according to the federal Government Accountability Office.

The GAO reported that 91% of all suspected terrorists who tried to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted over the time period, with just 190 rejected despite their ominous histories.

Read the whole thing.  And take a short dive into the comment section where you will see gun nuts argue that this is okay.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Take a deep breath.

Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a member of the House Select Committee On Benghazi, said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid “a trap” for the committee by making her Oct. 22 appearance go “as long as possible.”

Oh yeah, Hillary victimized them.

Westmoreland, who hails from Georgia, explained that Trey Gowdy wanted to interview Hillary in private but Hillary refused, saying that she wanted it to be public.  Then she “stalled, debated, and filibustered” on her answers “to make it go as long as possible, so we would look cruel.”

No, son, you looked cruel AND dumb all on your own. You needed no help at that. You have that down pat. In fact, you ought to consider going pro.

Then he explains that the fat lady ain’t sang yet.

Westmoreland said the committee will be traveling to Germany and Italy to continue researching Benghazi.

What? No trips to the Cayman Islands?

Remember when Democrats thought that John Kasich was the only reasonable Republican running for President?

Scratch that.

“As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world,” NBC News reports.

“The new agency, which he hasn’t yet named, would promote a Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of the world: China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East.”

Two months ago Kasich said that the United States should accept refugees from Syria.  This week he sent a letter to President Obama saying not to accept any more.

Y’all, they ate his brain. Whatever started in Ben Carson’s brain has migrated to Kasich’s brain. We need to build a wall around the GOP Presidential candidates. A huge one. Huge.