.

“You know the difference between Sarah Palin and the Panama Canal, don’t you?  One’s a busy ditch,” Juanita says and then pauses a couple of seconds until Verdelia gets it.  Thelma, of course, never does.

Honest to Goodness Church in El Campo, Texas

Sarah Palin is back on her God and the Founding Fathers thing.  Sarah thinks the Founding Fathers really meant to make the Bill of Rights the Ten Commandments.

“If they did, they sure had the opportunity to do that,” Juanita reports, “but they didn’t.”

“Look, nobody loves Thomas Jefferson as much as I do, but he believed I shouldn’t have the right to vote or own property. In fact, I was considered property.   I am not going back to that.  I am not.  No, Sarah, no.  It didn’t work out for me.”

“But Sarah went on Bill O’Rielly’s show and by all reports, made me very angry,” Juanita says.

Palins’s advice: “Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant — they’re quite clear — that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the ten commandments.

“What in hell scares people about talking about America’s foundation of faith?” Palin continued. “It is that world view that involves some people being afraid of being able to discuss our foundation, being able to discuss God in the public square, that’s the only thing I can attribute it to.”

“Sarah, Honey, we are not afraid to talk about the foundation of America.  We are not afraid to say that our founding fathers made some mistakes – unless, of course, you think slavery and disenfranchisement of women is hunkey dorey.  Which apparently some of you Republicans do.

Republican are attacking Elena Kagan for her support of Thurgood Marshall.

In its first memo to reporters since Kagan’s nomination to the high court became public, the Republican National Committee highlighted Kagan’s tribute to Marshall in a 1993 law review article published shortly after his death.

Kagan quoted from a speech Marshall gave in 1987 in which he said the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was “defective.” She quoted him as saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”

“It is stinky to me that Sarah Palin can get away with secret-message-words like ‘God of the Bible’ to say that a Jewish woman shouldn’t be on the court.  It is totally stinky to me that ‘founding fathers’ has become a message-word for the politics of hate and exclusion,” Juanita stomps.

“Like I said – busy ditch.”