So, we’re hearing that Congressboozer Paul Ryan spent a recent evening showing Americans how to live the good life.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a leading advocate of shrinking entitlement spending and the architect of the plan to privatize Medicare, spent Tuesday evening sipping $350 wine with two like-minded conservative economists at the swanky Capitol Hill eatery Bistro Bis.

He later said it was “stupid.”  Ya think?  By my math, that’s about $80 a glass or one cancer treatment.

Now if you don’t have plans for the weekend of October 11  12, I have something for you to do.

You need to do this.  Click the little one to get the big one.

There’s a couple of things that come to mind here.

1.  Please notice that Ted Cruz, Jim DeMint and Louie Gohmert (top row) are placed as far right as possible even in this group.

2.  They are going to have a 2016 Presidential Straw Poll.  I have $5 cash American money that says Ted Cruz will nail it.  Totally nail it.  Oh please, dear God, let him nail it.  If there is anything I can do to help him nail it please let me know.

3.  If you are a black man and you want to speak there, you do not have to be famous or anything.  You just have to be black.

4.  Values?  Who the hell are they kidding.  The only value they have is greed.  And bad haircuts.

Thanks to John for the heads up.

Thanks to John A. Kwitkoski for the great graphic!

Oops.

It seems that Rick Perry’s long suffering wife, Anita Perry, has committed political homicide on her husband.  Not that he didn’t deserve it, mind you, but it is a little disturbing nonetheless.

Anita Perry, wife of Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), declared Saturday that abortion “could be a women’s right.”

When pressed on women’s rights by Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith at the 2013 Texas Tribune Festival, the First Lady of Texas said, “That’s really difficult for me, Evan, because I see it as a women’s right. If they want to do that, that is their decision; they have to live with that decision.”

You can watch it yourself.

If your local hardware store is selling out of torches and pitchforks, they’re coming for Anita Perry.

Let’s whisk our thoughts to the state of Missouri where, according the official news reports, they now have indoor bathrooms at the state capitol.  Not particularly safe bathrooms, mind you.

A Missouri House staffer reportedly left a loaded gun in a public restroom in the state Capitol last week.

According to a Capitol Police incident report, a Kahr CM9 9mm pistol – later claimed by House Speaker Tim Jones’ legislative assistant Dave Evans – was found on top of the toilet paper dispenser in a men’s restroom in the Capitol basement Friday. The incident report states that the gun “was fully loaded with one round in the chamber and six rounds in the magazine.”

I do not know why Mr. Evans felt unsafe in a building full of armed guards.

All I can figure is that maybe Michael Corleone was supposed to find it.

It is extremely difficult to tell if a Republican member of Congress is drunk by the way they behave.  You have to smell it on them to know.

Apparently last night the whole place smelled like a Lone Star Beer factory.

As the evening wore on, reporters on the House floor were tweeting about the smell of booze in the room and obnoxious behavior more and more. Now, we all would expect that sort of thing from Boehner. I mean, come on, it was Saturday night, he’s John Boehner, of course he would be drunk….and orange. But I must admit that even I am a bit shocked that the others were hitting the bottle.

In their defense, there’s no way you can vote like a Republican while sober.  That’s a scientific fact.  Look it up.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.