Is it irony or is it insanity?  Sometimes it’s real hard to tell.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who apparently had a Chatty Cathy doll installed with his new heart, has made it very clear that Barack Obama is the worst president ever.   Okay, so he didn’t say “ever.”  He said “in my lifetime,” which is fundamentally ever.  Cheney will say that to anyone with earlobes.

Not so fast, Dick.

The History News Network conducted an informal poll on Thursday asking American historians from the nation’s top research universities and liberal arts colleges to grade the presidency of George W. Bush on an A-F scale, based on fourteen different metrics, ranging from foreign policy to the economy to transparency and accountability.

Wanna know how ole W did?

Sixty-four historians responded. Thirty-five — over half — rated his presidency an outright failure.

“Thank you, God, for this opportunity,” one professor, a faculty member at one of the service academies, wrote in a comment. “He was not qualified to be president and it showed for eight long years.”

You can read more here and see how historians think the same thing you do.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Does anybody know what the state motto for Arizona is?  I’m just asking because I’m pretty sure it’s Land of the Roaring Dumb Butts.

Republican congressional candidate and state legislator Adam Kwasman, who obviously spent his childhood years working in the coal mines, decided to get some free press by protesting an incoming bus of migrant children.  You know, to make them cry.  Because that’s fun.

He even tweets it —

He dashed to the bus and then ran straight to the tv cameras and newspapers where he said he saw the migrant children, “I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces…. This is not compassion,” he said.

Come to find out, that was not migrant children.  It was … wait for it … the YMCA bus headed for summer camp.  And, they weren’t afraid, they were laughing at the demonstrators and taking pictures with their camera phones.

Honestly.

So a local teevee reporter has more fun than is allowed by law in most states, but we make an exception for Arizona.  It’s called “The Oh Dear God, John McCain Picked Sarah Palin Rule” and gives three free on camera humiliations to every reporter in the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVzVlKd2y8

So, yeah, this is not about the rule of law.  And its only about children because it’s easier to scare children.  This is a hate contest.  This is Republican politicians measuring their winkies by the level of hate they can spew.

Adam Kwasman won yesterday.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I don’t have time to write about this right now, but, Darlin’, this is going to be a great story.

Two Republican Attorneys General have been arrested.  The learned nothing from Jack Abramoff.

A Michigan woman shot herself in the face.  With a damn shotgun.  Sounds impossible, doesn’t it?

Imagine you’re a police officer …

Upon arrival, deputies found that a family dispute had taken place and the victim, a 51-year-old woman, told officers that she had taken a shotgun out to “make a point.”

She told police she slammed the butt end on the floor, the gun discharged, and she was shot in the face.

I think she made her point. Don’t be jacking around with a shotgun.

It was 10:00 am on a Monday.  Helluva way to start the week.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

I have an absolute true story for you from Glen Maxey.

I see some of you rolling your eyes already but Glen provided me with documented proof so this time the story really is true. (I just say stuff like that to bother Glen.  It’s like, I dunno, my job to bother Glen.)

It’s Glen job to help Democrats.  So here’s his story in his own words.

In Texas, volunteers can be deputized to register voters. A Deputy Voter Registrar can assist a voter to fill out a voter registration application which is standardized for all counties across Texas. When they accept the card, the law requires the deputy to give the voter a receipt. This receipt is the proof that the voter registered to vote and did it outside the thirty day period before an election. If the volunteer loses the application or did something bad like tossing it in the trash because he didn’t like the persuasion of the potential voter, the newly registered voter has proof that they registered and did it in time.

Texas, being a state which places a high premium of “local control” and because it’s cheap, leaves the design, development and procurement of these receipts up to local voter officials, county by county.

Just to see what uniformity there was in receipts the Texas Democratic Party asked our interns out in rural counties to get a copy of the receipts used. Just to make sure they were giving voters correct information. Like somewhere near what the law requires.

Most are pretty good and do their job. One county states on theirs “this may not be used to vote” which is totally opposite of the function and rationale of the receipt.

Then there is this one from Van Zandt County, population 52,000, where Barack Obama got 19% of the vote.

Seriously, that’s their receipt for your voter registration.

Hell, it’s a damn receipt.  Whaddya want?  Something official?  You can’t just go down to the hardware store and buy these suckers, ya know.  You gotta drive all the over to Canton to the office supply store.

It’s a damn receipt.  And think of it this way, if a poll tax ever comes back, they are that much ahead of the game.

Arizona this time.  Your congressional district is next.

Andrew Walter, a Republican candidate in the state’s 9th congressional district, is slated to host an “Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” fundraiser Friday at the Scottsdale Gun Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Guests can choose to donate at three levels, from a $1,000 “expert” ticket that buys access to four weapons plus 250 rounds of ammunition to a $250 “marksman” ticket that buys the chance to shoot a Glock 18 with a single box of ammo.

Walter’s campaign manager, Chris Tolino, told USA Today that alcohol and cigars will be provided at a nearby restaurant, not at the range, once the shooting is over. Donor response to the event had been positive so far, Tolino said.

Isn’t that just adorable?  See what he did there? Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?  Not room enough for brains, common sense, and  holy-crap-they-can-drink-before-they-go-to-the-firing-range-you-fool.

That’s what’s wrong with America – not enough alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.  Let’s step it up, guys!

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.