… and one of them calls the other one a dirty name.

Welcome to the United States Senate where Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn called Utah’s Harry Reid “an asshole.”

That, of course, brought the intellectual discussion level of the United States Senate up about 14 points.

Both of those men live in states where you move quickly if you hear banjo music and they can’t get along?  I mean, you’d think they’d at least have taxidermy, bowling alleys, or door to door Bible salesmen in common.

Here’s the bottom line — Look Coburn, we pay Reid an extra fifty bucks a year to be an asshole to you.  It’s worth damn every penny.

Thanks to Don A for the heads up.

I will tell you what they are good at.  They are good at victimizing people and then playing the victim themselves.

Ted Cruz, who looked at people living paycheck to paycheck and decided to throw them out of work, casts himself as David vs. Goliath.  As a martyr.

Get outta here.  Here’s some privileged Canadian guy, with a blue ribbon $40,000 a year health care package from his wife’s job  who is trying to play Joan of Arc.  Or even …

As an audience of 600 Republicans awaited the arrival of Sen. Ted Cruz Friday night at the Iowa Events Center, conservative Christian activist Steve Scheffler came to the podium to give thanks to God for the Tea Party savior — and plead for more principled conservative leaders like him willing to “be crucified for their belief system.”

Wait a minute.  Wait a minute.  Wait just a damn minute.  He’s Jesus?

Last week, Tom DeLay compared himself to Moses returning from the wilderness, and now Cruz is Jesus Christ.  I guess they want Boehner to be John the Baptist so Salome (who is obviously Sarah Palin) can get his head on a platter.

Republicans, who are more second rate snake oil salesmen than Biblical giants, need to stop with this stuff before we start asking for miracles.

The minute they start hurting people, they clutch their hands to their chest and go full martyr in 60 seconds or less.

We’re drumming our fingers on desktops here in Texas waiting on a decision from U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on the constitutionality of Texas’s grotesque anti-woman bill, SB2, which will kill Texas women in the name of pro-life.

The decision is expected today but so far all we’ve heard is all sizzle and no bacon.

If I’m in the bathroom or in the middle of a perm when it comes down, jump on here and announce it.

I’m nervous as a sittin’ hen at a coyote convention.

By the way, Judge Yeakel was appointed by George W so the odds of him being smart are slim to none and slim just left town.  (I apologize.  I really do.)

UPDATE:  Y’all, I am just damn giddy.    Lookie at this.

Marco Rubio has begun to look like a small dog rubbing up and down on Ted Cruz’s leg doing you know what.

Rubio has now decided that he’s against his own immigration reform.

Once loudly supportive of sweeping immigration reform, Rubio had a Come To Ted meeting and —

The ambitious Florida senator saw his standing diminish among conservative voters after he supported the Senate bill. Opposing conference on the Senate bill leaves little, if any, room to pass reform through a divided Congress as the broad coalitions that hold together the Senate legislation would splinter if any major components are excluded.

How’s that refusal to work bipartisan working out for you, Marco?  Public Policy Polling, October 3rd, 2013.

So, Marco, you’re not planning on running in Florida again?

On the pendalum factor, Rubio scores about a wall to wall 15.

We’re leaving here in a while so I’ll be back home today.  I still don’t have email – although it was promised today – so that is the first order of business.

Y’all entertain yourself until I get home.

A lot of you know that my first grandchild is coming into the world next month.  His name is William.  And he will be the coolest kid in the nursery because he has a signed Wendy David campaign shirt.