Because God strongly dislikes Trey Gowdy, he’s causing Gowdy to look like a damn fool in public. Repeatedly.

Well done, God.  Well Done.

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account constituted a security breach.

Trying to be Mr. Smarty Pants, Gowdy replied to an email from Elijah Cummings demanding an apology to Clinton.  Howdy refused and then did exactly what he is accusing Clinton of doing.

So, Gowdy, how’s that security breach feel on you now?  A little tight, you say?

That’s the fun part about Republicans, eventually they will do whatever it is they claim you are doing wrong.

That’s the nice thing about Republicans, you don’t have to wait for an election before you call for impeachment.

Arkansas Alabama Republican Congressman Mo Brooks:

“In my judgement, with respect to Hillary Clinton, she will be a unique president if she is elected by the public next November,” he added. “Because the day she’s sworn in is the day that she’s subject to impeachment because she has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Can we wait until after the Inaugural Balls or do we need to just haul her off the second she finishes the oath?

I wonder if they are already printing up new Impeach Clinton bumper stickers or just recycling the old ones?

(By the way, thank to Anna for getting everything working on the website in record time.)

Well, Brethren, it appears that Saint Cruz and Saint Huckabee are spitting brimstone at each other.

They both attended the North Texas Presidential Forum at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth along with all the other Republican Presidential Jesus Junta.

The pastor at Prestonwood, Jack Graham, endorsed Huckabee four years ago.

Back then, Graham called Huckabee’s message “God’s word from God’s man.”

But this year, Ted hit the stage flinging swords and floods.  Honey, you’d have thought Lott’s wife had never looked back.

The younger Cruz turned up the heat right away, declaring an “awakening — we are seeing a spirit of revival across this nation.”

When Cruz said, “Our consitutional rights are under assault,” voices shouted back, “Yeah!” and “Amen!”

Cheers rose again when he said, “2016 is going to be a religious liberty election,” and brought up the 1980 pivot-turn election of President Reagan: “I believe 2016 will be an election like 1980.”

I’ve seen enough tent revivals in my life to know that you better grab ahold of your wallet and and good sense because that man will steal both.

We’e having some technical problems this morning and my hyperlink gadget isn’t working this morning so you can find the whole story right here:   http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article39824838.html#storylink=cpy

This weekend a reenactment became a realenactment at the, no kidding about this, O.K. Corral.

Yep, in Tombstone, Arizona, they reenact the gunfight with Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday taking on some scoundrels.  They claim to have been doing it since 1947 and that they have properly impressed the audiences they draw.

Then, oops.

A reenactment near the O.K. Corral got too real when a Tombstone Vigilantes actor shot himself in the upper thigh on Sunday afternoon, the Cochise County Sheriff’s office said in a statement.

Sure ‘nuf, a live round was is one of the actors’ guns and he shot himself in the hmmmmm … embarrassing.

Everyone claims that this has never happened before and they take all manner of precautions and checks to make sure this doesn’t ever happen but, personally, I think the Earp brother got themselves some revenge on overacting.

Thanks to Claudia for the heads up.

I will never forget that day … damn, I forgot already.

“No, the other one in the two thousands.”

God help us all.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Okay, here’s the deal.

If you want to run for public office in Texas, you have to submit your paperwork between November 14 – December 14, for an election that’s a year away.  Don’t ask me why that is.  Hell, I don’t know what I want to do next month, much less a year from now.

Early voting for the primaries begins February 16th and election day is March 1st.

Runoffs for the primary election are on May 24th.

EXCEPT:  maybe not.

In Texas, we are waiting for a ruling from the courts on whether or not our gerrymandered to hell and back districts are legal.

Since the litigation began in September 2011, shortly after that year’s legislative session ended, opponents of the maps have alleged that Republican lawmakers failed to create minority opportunity districts.

It was a violation of the Voting Rights Act because non-whites — particularly Hispanics — accounted for nearly 90 percent of the population growth of the past decade that allowed Texas to gain four congressional districts, they allege.

Since people can’t sign up to run for an office in a district with the boundaries being litigated, this is gonna be a damn certified goat rodeo.

If we don’t get a decision by November 14th, I am going to be one cranky woman.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.