Dan Patrick, Texas Lt. Governor, has just given up on making sense in normal earth terms.  He’s making sense in terms of who even gives a damn anymore.

In an interview in Austin last week, Patrick explained something in non-scientific, non-reasonable, and non-correct terms and, bless his heart, he succeeds beautifully.

The five Dallas police officers killed in July would still be alive if the Black Lives Matter movement didn’t exist, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Saturday, and he does not regret criticizing protestors for organizing the march against violence that ended in tragedy.

Yes, and if the World Trade Center didn’t exist, there would never have been a terrorist attack on America.  And Blue Bell Ice Cream would not be poisoning people again if we just didn’t talk about the poison in their ice cream.

Patrick was widely criticized after the deaths when he called protesters “hypocrites” for rallying against the same law enforcement officers that were providing security in downtown Dallas.

Patrick admits that was not a smart thing to say, but only after someone told him, “Son, that just butt ignorant.”

“No excuses because I don’t take back anything I said, by the way,” he told Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey during an onstage interview at the Texas Tribune Festival. “I used the wrong word. Condemn me if you want.”

That kind puts your brain in a knot, doesn’t it?  “I don’t take it back.  I used the wrong word, but get on your damn high horse and condemn me.”  Uh, people usually want to take back wrong words.  And, uh, what exactly would be the right word he was looking for?  Does Dan need a thesaurus to look up hypocrite?  Is that what he means?

He needs an interpreter.

The crazy just keeps on coming.  It turns out that The Muscovian Candidate is already reaching out to his KGB handlers – or whatever they call themselves these days – via one of his trusted foreign policy advisers.

Congressional members reportedly have been briefed about Carter Page, Trump’s “Russia adviser” who has built an entire money-grubbing, investment-banking career out of kissing Putin’s Gass, aka Russia’s state-run oil-company, Gazprom.

Page, reportedly, has been serving as a back-channel between the Trump campaign and the Putin regime, ostensibly promising to ease sanctions if Trump becomes President.  Is this the “pro quo” for the “quid” of Russian hackers leaving him very obviously alone, while targeting his opponents?

Carter Page is the guy who, in a June meeting of Washington foreign policy experts with the Prime Minister of India, praised both Trump and Putin to the skies.

Later this summer, he spoke critically of US foreign policy at a commencement for the New Economic School… IN MOSCOW!

What did he criticize?  How would the Trump foreign policy differ from our current approach?

“Washington and other Western capitals have impeded potential progress through their often hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption…”

Yup, too much focus on democracy, inequality and corruption.  That’s EXACTLY what America is doing wrong.

Well, Trump will certainly fix all that, starting with a big, wet, sanction-lifting kiss to Russia, with love.

From the Quorum Report —

He’s afraid that Rick Perry is going to run against him for Governor.

This is not going to be a popular decision among Texas Republicans.

Asked about a possible endorsement, Jason Johnson, Cruz’s chief strategist on the campaign, responded with a photo of himself, with his hand over his face.

 

Seriously, this is kinda fun.  So now he’s asking people to NOT vote their conscience?

Here’s the deal.

The Secret Service reimburses presidential candidates for the expense of their protective agents flying with the candidate.  For example, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been reimbursed $2.6 million so far this election cycle for expense of the flights for her agents.

On the other hand, Donald Trump’s campaign has only been reimbursed $1.6 million, mainly because he qualified for protection later than she did.  However, every dime of that money went to a company owned by … I don’t have to tell you, do I?

The difference with Trump is that one of his companies, TAG Air, Inc., owns the plane, so the government is effectively paying him.

The Clinton campaign, by contrast, mostly has been chartering planes from a private company called Executive Fliteways in which the Clintons do not have any ownership interest.

“The taxpayers are actually reimbursing Trump for the travel of the Secret Service agents,” said Brett Kappel, a campaign finance lawyer at the law firm Akerman LLP. “It’s just another example of how the Trump campaign has taken an unprecedentedly large amount of its money and spent it at Trump-owned facilities.”

Just another example.  We know the agents stay in Trump hotels and eat at Trump restaurants and that is paid directly by the Secret Service.

So when he said he might be the first candidate tomato money off running for President, he wasn’t kidding.

Thanks to Portman for the heads up.

Well, I have to admit that I am thankful for Lt. Governor Dan Patrick today.  At least he’s a Republican willing to tell the truth.

Explaining why he leads Republican Donald Trump’s Texas presidential campaign, Patrick said Democrat Hillary Clinton would have people “coming from all over the world.”

And then?

“It will be very tough, Mark, to actually elect a Republican again to the White House.”

Dan Patrick leads Donald Trump’s presidential race in Texas, and he’s freely and proudly admitting that Trump’s immigration policy is based on politics.

I love my country this much.

So to the little boy sitting in back of an ambulance in total shock and covered with blood, we’d love to help you, but Dan Patrick sheds his Christian faith at the White House door.  Or, the voting booth.  He leaves it outside the voting booth so he can bring his own personal devils in there with him.

Sweet Jesus, I hate these people.  I really do.

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