Meet Jason Thigpen, a 36 year old University of North Carolina graduate and Purple Heart winner who lives in Holly Ridge with his wife and four children.

Jason was a Republican.  In fact, he was running for a congressional seat as a Republican until he started raising waves on the sea of tranquility.   Jason decided that he didn’t want to be eating out of the same feedbag with people who “promote hate and division amongst people.”

Jason switched parties.  He became a Democrat and lo and behold, he’s a Democrat for the same reason we all are Democrats:  We not only love America, we love Americans.

He he goes —

These legislators, acting under the guise of the religious right and morality believe themselves to be the divine judge but according to the Bible, there is only one judge. They say they’re for a smaller government and individual rights while pushing legislation for more government intervention and regulation usurping our right to choose for ourselves. They take money away from the public school system so they can call it broken, only to give the money to their charter schools that are really private schools, just so our kids don’t go to the same school as theirs all the while giving some great speech trying to convince us it isn’t segregation. Right. But all along, they seemingly want you to believe that you have a choice – like ‘cake or death.’

He sounds like a bona fide down home Democrat to me!

Welcomes, Jason.  Take a seat – preferably in congress.

Honey, we Democrats are so lucky that we could sit on a fence and the birds would feed us.

There’s some PPP polling out this morning.

PPP’s newest national survey finds that in the wake of the shutdown, Republican voters now view Ted Cruz as their party’s leader. 21% picked Cruz to 17% for Chris Christie, and 15% for John Boehner. Cruz finished well ahead of the other GOP Senators we tested- Rand Paul got 9%, John McCain 7%, and Mitch McConnell only 4%. Mitt Romney at 8% and Sarah Palin at 4% were the other people we tested.

Numbers PPP will release next week show Ted Cruz would be an exceedingly weak Presidential candidate in the general election.

So this means the GOP has a real odd strategy to win back the White House.  I guess Karl Rove is still checking the results in Ohio and doesn’t have time to explain the math behind this theory to the GOP.

Remember the Republicans hollering about “activist” judges?

Well, you can bet there’s a new tune on that tomorrow …

A federal appeals court Thursday granted Attorney General Greg Abbott’s request for an emergency stay on a lower court decision that blocked a key provision of Texas’ new abortion law from going into effect earlier this week.

 

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 20-page opinion, said the state’s provision requiring abortion doctors to gain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals does not “impose a substantial obstacle to abortions.”

So they lift the stay and screwed Texas women.

Republicans are on a roll today.

Let’s start with Mel Watt.  From Politico —

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The vote was 56 to 42 and 60 votes were needed to limit debate and clear the way for a final vote on the nomination.

The White House this week pushed to get Watt confirmed but Republicans said they oppose his nomination arguing that someone with more experience in mortgage finance, not a politician, should run the agency. Democrats said Watt’s 20 plus years on the House Financial Services Committee make him more than qualified.

He spent 20 damn years on the Houston Financial Services Committee and he’s not qualified?  Who is?  Joe the Plumber?

And then just to piss off women, the Senate voted 55-38 to block the nomination of Patricia Millett to be a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Republicans were largely united in opposing the nomination.

Millett is a Harvard law grad and has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other woman in private practice – 32 of them.  Republicans said they were afraid it would “tip the balance” on the DC court.  So elections only have consequences if Republicans win?

Today was not a good outreach day for Republicans.  I imagine there will be some hardy laughter at Republican lunches today celebrating shooting down a perfectly qualified African American and a woman without even breaking a sweat.

Chickens have a harder time laying eggs than Republicans do insulting women and minorities.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

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God always liked him better.

I do not understand why I am a Christian and God never tells me what to title my book or puts me on a conference call.

Just when you think that Tom DeLay has sunken into the pits of hell from blasphemy, he shines on —

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Okay, first off, Hagee lies.  Tom DeLay was NOT found not-guilty. Twelve good and true citizens and a Republican judge all found him guilty as hell.  If Hagee was the least bit concerned about the truth he would say, “Tom DeLay’s guilty verdict was overturned by an activist judge.  Praise God for activist judges!”

But, of course, truth never has never mattered to teevee evangelists  or dirty politicians.

So, if Tom’s new book doesn’t sell any better than his last book, it’s God’s fault.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,189 in Books

You can buy it for a penny.

And yes, he did in fact say he was on a 4 hour conference call with God.  Makes you wonder who else was on that conference call.

Thanks to Victoria Linn for the head up.