Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed Grover Norquist’s sacred oath not to raise taxes, not realizing that Grover is weird.

So, because of Jindal’s oath, the paradise of Louisiana is already in debt and this year’s budget has a $1.6 billion (with a B) gap.  They are having to spend $1.6 billion that they don’t have.

It’s called the Rick Perry Syndrome:  Announce you’re running for President and destroy your state so you can pretend that conservatism works when it damn well doesn’t.

But there is a silver lining for us all.  Little Miss Karma paid a visit to Little Mister Jindal.  Even though he’s running for President, Jindal’s budget does not include money to hold a Presidential primary in 2016.

This is also a story about how Louisiana is so poor that — despite his White House ambitions — Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) didn’t budget anything for presidential primaries in 2016.

Last year, Jindal even signed a law to move up the primaries by two weeks to attract more national attention to Louisiana. But the money for those elections was nowhere to be found in the governor’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, as legislators discovered Wednesday.

Well, that’s kinda cool.  Looks like he stepped on his winkie in the process of screwing the people of Louisiana.

That’s fun.

Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.

The Iowa State Lege began a long debate over collective bargaining rights for teachers.

Republican State Representative Ross Paustian takes his job very seriously.

And his hoochy-koochy.

I am told that it’s a gag book being passed around the house floor and that the pages are empty.  It sure is taking him a long time and a lot of reading to get the joke.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Okay, remember Michael Brown?  You know, “Heckuva job, Brownie” Michael Brown?  The totally incompetent guy who fiddled while New Orleans drowned?

You vaguely remember him, right?

Well, like every other failed Republican hack, he has his own radio show, where he describes himself as a “conservative with a strong libertarian bent”.   No shoot, Sherlock.  He pretty well Ayn Randed New Orleans.  It would have been nice if he had told us beforehand that he didn’t believe in government and/or helping people.

Well, anyway, the way I found out about Brown’s new found fame is that he is now publicly taunting President Barack Obama.

Brown took to Twitter and posted this crapola.

Okay, there’s a difference between guts and gall but that distinction is still a mystery to Michael Brown.

Here’s the actual tweet with actual replies.  Brown paid cash American money to “promote” his tweet.  One of my favorite replies?  “The incompetent Michael Brown supports the incompetent Bibi? lol Bibi is Israel’s Hurricane Katrina. He’s devastating.”

The Republican Party:  We know no shame.

Okay, I have a question.

You know how Aaron Schock got into all manner of trouble for decorating his office and buying himself some fancy pants stuff and spending his campaign funds to benefit himself?

Well, then how the fool tarnation can Louie Gohmert buy a car with his campaign funds?

with satellite radio —

And he bought it from one of his contributors.

I’m just asking how Louie gets to do that stuff.  He also got a car phone, OnStar and a tanker of gas.

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

Y’all, Glenn Beck is outta the Republican Party.

Outspoken conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck declared he was “out of the Republican Party” on Wednesday during his show “The Glenn Beck Program,” according to Politico.

“I’ve made my decision – I’m out. I’m out of the Republican Party,” Beck said. “I am not a Republican; I will not give a dime to the Republican Party. I’m out. I highly recommend – run from the Republican Party. They are not good.”

What if he starts looking for another party?  We gotta hide, y’all.

Move along, move along, nothing to see here Glenn.