Okay, if Ted Cruz looked familiar on Sunday evening as he lead a small mob of folks with confederate flags all over Washington, DeeCee ….

It’s because he was wearing Rick Perry’s “I am not gay” jacket.

That jacket has become famous as the Texas lyin’ politician jacket.

When Texas politicians want to spur hate behavior, that’s their official jacket.  And it worked tonight!

Good Lord, Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin with folks who hit the dead solid perfect center of a word Zinguy Wally sent me some time back —

Agnotology

Agnotology is the study of culturally induced ignorance.

Look it up.

Amen.

Sometimes I think Republicans have hit rock bottom in dumb.

Republican congressvarmints, who I remind you are still receiving a paycheck, are truly concerned about government workers who are not receiving a paycheck.

To demonstrate this concern, a Republican congressman from New Mexico has a suggestion he posted on Facebook.

Yeah, and now that usury is perfectly legal, everybody wins — the rich congressman, the rich short term lender, the … well, not the government worker.  But, everybody else wins and that’s what counts!

By the way, once Pearce sobered up, he took it off Facebook.

Thanks to Andrew and RM for the heads up.

So you know how when a snowball starts small and then builds bigger and bigger as it rolls until it finally hits something and explodes with snow and crap flying everywhere?

Well, I don’t know anything about that because I haven’t seen snow since 1973, but that’s what I see on teevee so I suspect there’s some truth to it.  And, more importantly, I have watched Ted Cruz and that out-of-control snowball has started an avalanche so I am kind of an expert of these things for a girl who lives in flip flops.

So, Ted’s latest attempt at ball building is to say something tacky about President Obama that has never been said before. That’s harder than it first appears to be because they’ve pretty much used every insult in the English language, and a few in moon-man talk, too.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Friday said that President Barack Obama was trying to violate all of the Bill of Rights and would “start quartering soldiers in people’s homes soon.”

Speaking to the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., Cruz told the audience that the country was facing “extraordinary times.”

“You look at our Constitution, you look at our Bill of Rights, this is an administration that seems bound and determined to violate every single one of our Bill or Rights,” he explained.

Yeah, Ted is real nervous about the Third Amendment, which prohibits the quartering of soldiers in citizen’s homes, because he thinks President Obama has a bucket list to violate every Bill of Rights.

I think Ted is missing the point.  If you shut down the government and destroy the economy, where the hell else can we put our soldiers?

Now we get to the part where Snowball Ted hits the brick wall.

Winning this has been the Kiss of Death in the past.  And that may be why a group of Democrats got together and spent $90 to send a fruit basket to Ted Cruz.

“Dear Ted,” said the card to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the fruit and snack basket from 1-800-FLOWERS sent by Brad Woodhouse, president of Americans United for Change and the former Democratic Party communications director. “A Texas sized thank you!! Thanks to you, Obamacare is more popular and the GOP is less so. Keep up the Good Work!! Yours, Americans United for Change.”

So, when the Ted Cruz snowball does explode, there’s gonna be 20, 30 feet of snow all over Texas.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

We had our State Democratic Executive Committee meeting this weekend in Galveston, Texas, and a fundraiser the night before featuring the Legends of Democratic Politics – past and future – and Senator Wendy Davis.

Yes, I took this picture with my phone. And yes, those are my tennis shoes.

There was standing room only in the ballroom and excitement I have not seen since Ann Richards ran for Governor.  People paid $100 a person – with all proceeds going to the Texas Democratic Party – even to stand at the back and hear her speak.

She did not disappoint.  She spoke about education, health care for Texans, bring business to Texas (without it being a Presidential tour at taxpayer expense, I suspect), and making Texas great again.

On the podium during her speech sat my tennis shoes that I wore to Austin at the first rally after Wendy stood up.  She signed them and we auctioned them for $1,350.  So, if you think you’re cool, you are not even near cool until Wendy Davis signs your tennis shoes and they bring $1,350 to the Texas Democratic Party.

Just so you know, Judge Steven Kirkland said that I am cool and since he is the bona fide arbiter of all things cool, it is damn official.

Louie Gohmert got to going today and could not stop.

It was an amazing feat.

He says that John McCain supports Al Qaeda

Well, I can’t get the You Tube to work from my iPad.  Go look at it.  You don’t want to miss this!

If you get bored (or drunk) this weekend, here’s the perfect activity for you —

Drunk Dial Congress.

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Oh don’t roll your eyes.  You know you have nothing better to do.