I think it’s real sweet of Republicans to make us a list of the 47 craziest United States Senators.  It saves us the effort.  And as an added benefit, we get to watch them all run backwards with their shoes tied together now.

I have to admit that John McCain’s explanation of “I sign a lot of things,” was the cutest way to minimize doing something dumber than bean dip.

“I saw the letter, I saw that it looked reasonable to me and I signed it, that’s all. I sign lots of letters,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

And when that didn’t fly, he switched to …

John McCain: “It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm.”

Yeah, it’s the weather – made us act crazy.

Poor Tom Cotton stands there alone with his pants around his ankles while 46 of his fellow senators now claim they don’t know him.  Well, maybe “poor” wasn’t the right word to use.

According to newly released FEC filings, Cotton received $960,250 in supportive campaign advertising in the last month from the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), a right-wing group headed by the neoconservative pundit, Bill Kristol, who infamously predicted that the Iraq war would last two months. At its inception, the ECI was based out of the same Washington office as the Committee of the Liberation of Iraq, a pressure group that lobbied for the 2003 invasion.

Some even suspect that Bill Kristol wrote the danged letter.  I think that’s probably right because only Kristol can be that condescending and boneheaded at the same time.   Cotton owes his senate seat to Kristol with the influx of cash and advertising during the last month of a close race.

But the cherry on top of this heap-o’-crap would be if Netanyahu’s speech to congress costs him the election.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a last-minute media blitz on Thursday to counter what appears to be a rising tide of support for his main opponent in next week’s election, the centrist Zionist Union.

If that happens, we are all sending thank you notes to John Boehner, and an eleven foot pole to stand outside of Tom Cotton’s office because from now on nobody will touch him with a ten foot one.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

The Republicans in the Texas Lege are so damn entertaining.

Signs calling some state lawmakers former fetuses are causing a stir at the Capitol, with one representative accusing another of intimidating his staff by removing them.

Republican State Representative Jonathan Stickland replaced the usual sign on his office door with this one.  He’s a former fetus.  He’s also a pre-cadaver but he doesn’t make mention of that.

Republican State Representative Charlie Geren didn’t like it for some damn reason.  According to Strickland, Geren took the sign down and threw it “in my staffer’s face.”  Stickland says that Geren “intimidated” his staffer.

Stickland

My. My.  Republicans at war.

Geren denies it. He says the sign is a violation of the rules of the State Preservation Board, which is charged with making the capitol look proper and spiffy.

“If Stickland wants to act like a child, that’s fair, but I did not rip it down.”

Get a room, Boys.

They have taken their testy comments to Twitter.  Strickland obviously doesn’t care about the capitol looking proper and spiffy.  After all, he showed up.

Okay, we don’t cuss here because Momma does not approve, but I am thinking that maybe this might be time to say that Republicans don’t know the difference between cheeky and caca.

Trying to defend their letter to Iran, Republicans are sending this up the flagpole to see who salutes —

Republican aides were taken aback by what they thought was a lighthearted attempt to signal to Iran and the public that Congress should have a role in the ongoing nuclear discussions. Two GOP aides separately described their letter as a “cheeky” reminder of the congressional branch’s prerogatives.

“The administration has no sense of humor when it comes to how weakly they have been handling these negotiations,” said a top GOP Senate aide.

Sense of humor?  That letter was supposed to be cheeky? Honey, Republicans don’t have a sense of humor.  The first step to becoming a Republican is to have a humorectomy.  And it’s startlingly apparent that message was not conveyed to any of the signers.

I just thought y’all should know that the backtracking has begun!  And that “Just Joking!” won’t work at this beauty salon.

A mom in Iowa, who works in a gun store, has decided to teach a class on how to wear a gun while also wearing a baby.

Picture of the actual pistol packin’ momma

What could possibly go wrong?

I’ve coslept with my babies, I’ve been wearing my babies, I’ve loved them, and I’ve worn a gun the whole time.

Melody Lauer wants to teach you how to do that.  Why would you possibly want to do that?

“The idea for the class came out of hearing about the kid in Idaho who shot his mom recently. That touched me in a very deep way because my daughter was 2 at the time,” Lauer, 30, with kids ages nine months, 3, and 6, tells Yahoo Parenting. “I thought, there’s no reason this should happen. We are adults and can be responsible.”

So she wants to shoot her kid before the kid shoots her?

You know, call me unprepared for child rearing but I think the solution is not the have a stinkin’ gun laying around for your kids to find.  The OK Corral idea might work, too.  I dunno.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

Vice President Joe Biden is riled up and filled with piss and vinegar over the treasonous letter that 47 senators sent to Iran.

The senator’s letter, in the guise of a constitutional lesson, ignores two centuries of precedent and threatens to undermine the ability of any future American President, whether Democrat or Republican, to negotiate with other nations on behalf of the United States. Honorable people can disagree over policy. But this is no way to make America safer or stronger…

And that’s just the beginning of Joe’s anger and disbelief at the dangerous behavior of senate Republicans.

And what was the GOP response to Biden’s comments?

So people with military service can undermine the United States and get a pass?

Jindal, I didn’t see you defending Tammy Duckworth when she was under assault from your party.  How about John Kerry?  How about hundreds of other Democrats who served?  They don’t get a pass.

Jindal, you’re an idiot.  But Cotton, well Honey, he’s dangerous.  He’s demanding a war.

A man fired a gun at a gun show.

An Alexandria man was arrested for the reckless handling of a firearm Saturday after he fired a gun in the midst of a local gun show, according to Fredericksburg police.

Y’all, I think they need to make the rules clearer.  I mean, think about it.  They said “Gun Show.”  There’s noting about just looking at the guns, now is there?

Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.