I do not enjoy calling Texas congressvarmints cheap pavement princesses.

Okay, so I do.  It’s just that I hate to continually be embarrassed by them.

Today we have a one Republican and one Democrat.  The Republican is Randy Neugebauer of Yachting Randy Fame and the other is Democrat Henry Cuellar, whose middle name is goddam around here because he’s a blue dog sellout who would give you his mother’s teeth for a little attention from the media or, apparently, $1,000.

Both Neugebauer and Cuellar have taken money from HSBC, a money laundering  operation for drug cartels and terrorists.

HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA)’s head of group compliance, David Bagley, told a Senate hearing he will step down amid charges the bank gave terrorists, drug cartels and criminals access to the U.S. financial system by failing to guard against money laundering.

Bagley was among at least six HSBC executives who testified before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations today after the panel released a 335-page report describing a decade of compliance failures by Europe’s biggest bank. London- based HSBC enabled drug lords to launder money in Mexico, did business with firms linked to terrorism and concealed transactions that bypassed U.S. sanctions against Iran, Senate investigators said in the report.

And here ya go —

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Do you think they’ll give it back?  Does a chicken have lips?  Does a windmill pump oil?

Upkeep on a yacht in the middle of the damn desert and kissing up to Republicans to keep them from running against you is getting expensive.  That’s why these two characters are cheap.

And the cherry on top?  Randy Neugebauer is on the House Financial Services Committee that is supposed to be overseeing this bank.

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