Phone Call for Mr. Nail. Hammer Calling.
It is rare to have people who have been your friend for 30 years. I kept Suzy Allison for reasons like this. She sent me an email this morning.
I got a letter in yesterday’s mail from Greg Abbott.
Yes, that Greg Abbott. He wants me to send money because he will soon make an announcement about his political plans, will be mounting a major campaign, and needs my support. He does not specify the office he seeks, but gives some strong clues. Here are the clues . . .
“27 times I have sued the Obama administration. And I am not done.”
“I have fought the Obama Administration’s assault on our Constitution, including the ObamaCare plan that forces Americans to purchase a product or pay a tax.”
“Working with a great team at the Office of Attorney General, we successfully defended the 10 Commandments displayed on the lawn of the Texas Capitol. We have defended prayer in school. We have fought to protect life.”
No other candidate or officeholder is mentioned by name. So it’s clear. He’s going to run against Obama. So all we need to do is find out what office Obama plans to seek in 2014, and we know Abbott’s plans. 🙂
Paging the White House . . . We’ve got a weird question.
Abbott is running for Governor. Now the question is — is Rick Perry also running for Governor? They say we will know at the end of next week.
I’d just like to mention that I love learning about Texas from Juanita Jean. It’s a fascinating and crazy place. That’s the opinion of a woman who has lived in Alaska for 40 years.
1Just as long as they don’t put the 10 Commandments on license plates. Those spoilsports in Oklahoma got a court ruling allowing folks to file suit against putting a “Rain God” picture on Oklahoma’s license plates. Of course, it might only apply to artwork with possible (gasp) pagan overtones… (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/pastor-suit-against-oklahoma-license-plate-ok_n_3455129.html)
2It’s kind of embarrassing to live in Texas and for folks to find out. Without Juanita Jean’s we’d all be totally blank faced and deny knowing what was going on. You wanna tell us more about Alaska? All I know about it is, they do drilling there and Palin used to be governor til she got too busy at home.
3Marge Wood, if you want to know more about Alaska from an Alaskan blogger, go to “The Immoral Minority”, Jesse Griffin’s blog (he goes by “Gryphen”). He even has Juanita Jean’s URL on his blog roll.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
If you want to know about pre-quitting Sarah Palin, what Gryphen thought about her VP candidacy, and his opinion about her post-quitting careers, that’s the place to visit.
He also writes about Alaskan politics, national politics, and social/economic issues. And other stuff.
4When do we just up and start calling Rick “Emperor”? If he run for Gov. again, that needs to happen. Bring on the Douchies….
5Thanks, KarenJ.
6I got a call this morning from a DC number, identified as “Huckabee.” Question One: On a 1 to 10 scale, how likely are you to vote in the next Republican primary for Texas governor?
Once I quit laughing, I thanked the nice telemarketer lady (judging by her reaction, about as likely as me to vote for any of those yahoos) for perking up my day.
7Ya know how some people have gaydar? Well, I can smell smarmy from 1000 paces. And Greg Abbott smells almost as smarmy as Rick Perry.
Dang, that’s gonna be one Triple Z Crazzzy race. Stock up on popcorn. And aspirin. And water, because we’re gonna need lots of showers after being exposed to so much guano loco crap from these two vermin.
8If you want to read a really cool blog from Alaska, go to Stonekettle Station (stonekettle.com)….
9Beat me to it djw! Did you read his tribute to his father? I cried. Lots. Some of them were good tears too- and just another great fun person I have missed out on! I sure hope there really is an afterlife, I’d like to meet some of these people!
10Sounds like he wants to be chief inquisitor of the inquisition.
11the StoneKettle Station site is one of my favorites – Top notch writing, gutsy, funny sincere. His essays on gun control are priceless. haen’t visited for a while; thanks for reminding me.
12Sam in Kyle, ever hear of Witchsmeller persuivant? That’s a very old term for people who swear they can smell a witch anywhere any time, no matter the camoflage and all evidence to the contrary. Think Ken Star. Now pick any Repig of recent celebrity with footinmouthitis. That includes the infamous state leg critters who passed the damn bill anyway despite all the public comment they got against it. That should tell you all anyone would want to know what they think of women in general. Witches, all of ’em. Hell, they’re probably never without a book of matches.
13Stonekettle and JJ are both in my news reader for daily (when available) consumption.
14Why, oh why, do we have so much stoopid in our Ledge? It so wrong to me for Texas to be hijacked by a bunch of single-minded, greedy and just plain dumb rebublicans!! Aye!
15JJ and all, I stopped an avalanche of political junk mail by going to my local post office and filling out a form that stops what is essentially porn from being left in my curbside mailbox. That actually works! The local postmaster is very cooperative cuz this means less poundage for his people to deliver. I also set up blocks on my computer for certain e-mail messages from specific candidates. After all, I need junk mail in general like I need leprosy and doggone it, some of these politicians even on paper and the ethernet are downright contagious!
16Abbott’s campaign, for whatever office he seeks, will be based on his one accomplishment of spending millions of dollars of Texas taxpayers money suing the Obama administration in court. Abbott has stated that is his job. If that’s all he can do why should Greg Abbott deserve election to any other office?
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