I’m not a big fan of Lindsey Graham, but sometimes he delivers great lines.  Yesterday in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, he delivered one:

“If it was a 400 lb. guy, it was a 400 lb. Russian guy.”

Okay, okay, I am trying to get a grip but I just can’t.  There’s no grip here.  I’ve looked everywhere.

Forbes Magazine posted an opinion piece about Rick Perry being the best thing ever to grab ahold of the Department of Energy.

The column praises Rick Perry for letting the oil industry run amuck in Texas, where we have the worst pollution in America and there are times when unregulated dangerous chemicals are allowed to blow up a whole damn town and kill 15 people. Because …. liberty!

Here’s how Rick does it.

Texas is indeed blessed with oil and natural gas, but it takes well-devised policy to turn those resources into economic results. New York, for example, has tremendous natural gas resources but will not allow the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) processes to extract them. Other states allow fracking but have impeded a constructive business environment to allow energy production to reach its full potential.

Oh hell yeah, you can frack in downtown Dallas plus not pay any taxes.  We’re last in education and children are dying because they don’t have health insurance but, by gawd, we can drive a gas guzzler.

But here’s when I lost my grip.

Perry has consistently advocated removing obstacles to all-of-the-above energy sources. Beyond fracking, Perry supported removing obstacles to building new nuclear power plants.

Nukes.  He’s going to oversee damn nukes.  He’s gonna let Bubba Hank’s Nuclear Power and Fishing Bait build a nuke in your backyard.  Bubba Hank don’t need no damn obstacles. Bubba Hank don’t need no damn paperwork or oversight.  You can just trust him because he gave Rick Perry a campaign donation.

I can’t get a grip, y’all.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.

All three of the announced candidates for new Democratic National Committee Chair will be in Austin this Saturday at 1:30 at the State Democratic Executive Committee meeting to speak.  The meeting is open to the public and while questions and speeches from the floor are not allowed (or we’d be there for a month), you will be able to meet the candidates and hear them speak.  Most Texas Democratic National Committee members will also be there.  They are the ones who vote on the new chair and this is your opportunity to lobby them for your favorite candidate.

Saturday, December 17th at the Sheraton (701 E. 11th) at 1:30. Announced candidates:  Keith Ellison, Jaime Harrison, and Raymond Buckley

Use the Tell Juanita button above to ask me any questions you might have.

Yesterday the New York Times published an explosive story detailing the boldness of two Russian hacking groups infiltration of government and political party computer systems and the stupidity of those, especially at the DNC, that allowed both groups access to EVERYTHING for over a year.  The “IT Guy” was a part timer, who ignored multiple attempts by the FBI to warn the DNC that they were compromised, and especially makes the FBI look inept because no one from the agency went to actually visit higher ups to report that they knew the DNC was hacked and who was doing it.

Most disturbing was the complicity of the media when it was clear what was going on when the daily email dumps began, and how the Republicans, trying to win the election by hook or crook (emphasis on crook) refused to cooperate with the Dems and the Obama administration to go public with what they knew.  Infuriating is the fact that the hackers got in like they do to unsuspecting people every day, with a fake Google or other provider email saying “click here to change your password”.  You would think that government and party staff would know better, but apparently not.

The result is that the Russians actually helped Cheeto Jesus get elected.  The continuous noise of the email and document dumps, the uncritical and breathless reporting by the media added to the stupidity of DWS and other DNC leadership all came together in the conflagration we are seeing today.

All of this could have been prevented, but we are now in a post democracy era where party trumps country (no pun intended).

Okay, so here’s a Donald Trump tee-shirt for sale over on Amazon.

You need to go read the reviews.  The shirt is a POC (Piece of Crap) printed on cheap fabric and made by people who have never seen a tee-shirt before.

And Trump supporters are surprised.

There is also a guy who rated this shirt as, “poor quality.”  You know, as opposed to poor taste.

Remember how in the Oops! debate Rick Perry wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy?

Well, he can do that, y’all. He can. He can totally and absolutely destroy the entire department and leave it in a smoldering heap.  Look what he did for Texas – next to last in education, #1 in the percent of uninsured adults and children, 42nd in the number of physicians per capita, 4th in the percent of people living below the federal poverty level, 48th in median net worth of households, 1st in the amount of recognized cancer-causing carcinogens released into air, 43rd in high school graduation rate, last in worker’s comp coverage, 46th in homeowner’s insurance affordability, and I’ll stop there because there’s actually no end to this.

See?  He can destroy anything.