Okay, I’m gonna tell you about a new Texas PAC.

The name of it is — please enjoy this — “Young Minds Pursuing Righteousness.”

No, I absolutely am not kidding.  It is based in Dipping Springs, Texas.  I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this is a Republican PAC.

And here’s a fun fact.  The Designated Agent for this PAC is Stephen James Curran and, according to official state records, he’s 56 years old.  Maybe he’s “young” at heart, I dunno.  He votes in Republican primaries.

However, the treasurer, Emily Michelle Curran, is not a registered voter in Texas.

Okay, now I’m thinking this is a Russian deal.

Hell, it could be an Oklahoma deal.

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

Ten year old Rosamaria was brought to the United States by her mother when she was 3 months old.  Her mother is undocumented, but Rosamaria has aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents who are United States citizens.  Rosamaria also has cerebral palsy.

Last week she was taken by ambulance from Laredo to Corpus Christi for gallbladder surgery.  At the Freer checkpoint it was discovered that Rosamaria is not a United States citizen.  The ambulance was then escorted to the hospital in Corpus by Customs and Border Protection agents.

Rosamaria’s mother, Felipa Delacruz, who also lacks legal immigration status, said federal agents waited outside her daughter’s hospital room as she recovered. Delacruz is in Laredo. Her niece, who is a U.S. citizen, accompanied Rosamaria past the checkpoint.

She was released from the hospital with medical instructions that Rosamaria should see her primary care physician within three days of her release from the hospital.  Instead, she was taken to a children’s shelter in San Antonio where she will have to wait for two to three weeks for her case to be heard.  Her lawyers say that Rosamaria has never been apart from her mother.

She is a ten year old child with cerebral palsy recovering from surgery.

Customs and Border Protection spokesman Rod Kise issued a statement to the Caller-Times early Wednesday that states Rosamaria is no exception to the agency’s duty to enforce immigration law.

“Per the immigration laws of the United States, once medically cleared she will be processed accordingly,” according to the statement. “The Mexican Consulate has been advised of the situation by Laredo Sector Border Patrol.”

This is my government, representing me, doing this to a child.

Congressman Joaquin Castro wrote —

“Right now, federal agents are staking out the hospital room of a sick 10-year-old child … A small child who just had surgery is not a threat to Texans’ safety or our national security. (The Department of Homeland Security) should focus its resources elsewhere.”

No shoot, Sherlock.

Sumbitches.  We have become sumbitches.  My government is needlessly but purposefully mean to sick little children.

This morning it was announced that Texas House Speaker Joe Straus will not seek reelection.  Straus is the last remaining sane Republican in a leadership position in the Texas House. He won because a few Republicans and all the Democrats supported him.

There is much moaning and wailing outside the nut house in Texas today.  Straus was all that was standing between Texas outlawing courts of law and replacing them with posses, requiring a stamped Baptist church program or an excuse from your doctor every Monday to get a voter registration card, and having to allow Lt. Governor Dan Patrick watch you pee after inspecting your paraphernalia.

Do you realize that we could end up with Jonathan Strickland as speaker of the Texas House?

Then to make matters worse, the son of  late Democratic Governor Mark White (who was a good guy and passed away in July) has announced the he wants to run for Texas Governor as a Democrat.  His opening push?

“I’ve spent my career in business. I’m a very conservative Democrat, or I’m a moderate Republican or I don’t care what you call me,” he says. “It’s time to move beyond these simple labels . . . The issues are too complicated to limit to that just one team believes this and the other team believes that.”

Honey, Honey, Honey.  I can smell a Republican a mile off.  Child, you’re going to run in a Democratic primary by telling me that you’re not really a Democrat?

It is not a happy day in Texas for Democrats and, dammit, that doesn’t make it much different than any other day.

The Longview News-Journal is a newspaper in Louie Gohmert’s home district.  Admittedly, there are some local newspapers in Louie’s district who kiss his stinky rank butt, but the Longview newspaper ain’t one of them.

This week, they go after Louie’s vote against aid to the areas of Texas that were leveled by Harvey.  It was horrible in Houston, but maybe even worse were the dozens of small towns along the southern coast who didn’t get all the attention and love that Houston did.  Rockport was leveled, but there are no teevee stations in Rockport so no celebrities raising money showed up.

The Longview newspaper notes that six Texas Republicans voted against the aid to Texas supposedly because there were no offsets and these six Texas Republicans were unwilling to sacrifice their big salaries, fancy pants overseas “fact finding” trips and their big fat perks just to save someone’s life.

But, the News Journal does such a superb job of smacking Louie upside the head that’s it’s worth your read.  They write ….

Knowing Gohmert, the “logic” of his vote could be much more esoteric. It is possible he worried that undocumented immigrants would use the money to produce anchor babies who might then become future gay members of space colonies.

They know him well.

Way to go, Longview News-Journal.  It’s nice that somebody in East Texas recognizes caca del toro when they smell it.

Thanks to Karen for the heads up.

Melanie says Thank You and God Bless You!

I thank you, too, for helping my small town and many areas around it.

Jeff Flake bites the dust.