This morning it’s looking more and more like we may be headed to a government shutdown thanks to two United States senators – Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.  And it appears that Cruz shot his own party.

Any hope Republicans had to at least share the blame with President Obama and Democrats was pretty much wiped away when Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Cruz had a fight on the Senate floor.

Republicans are tying the can on Cruz pretty good, but they have no idea how to treat mental illness so they’re standing back and letting him run in circles.  Only problem is, he’s digging a hole.  Which kinda ends up like what this Texas woman did to her husband when she caught him cheating.

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So a prissy snooty little boy from Harvard with far more money than good sense is running the country because nobody will stand up to him.   How the fool tarnation did we get here?

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has the same question.

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And that, my friends, was no easy task.

The worst kept secret in Texas got out of the bag yesterday.

Wendy Davis is going to run for Governor and will be announcing it on October 3rd in Fort Worth.  Bubba and I will be there as a “special guests” along with about 5,000 other “special guests.”  We decided that we want to drive 5 hours (which is a day trip in Texas) to see this momentous event.

If you want to help, waltz on over to the Texas Democratic Party and put your dollars where it will matter.   You can donate in exchange for stuff (scroll down for the fabulous Hillary bumper stickers) or just toss in a few dollars.

I promise to take pictures and send kisses and hugs from the announcement.

Larry Klayman, a 62 year old white man who founded Judicial Watch – meaning he was lunatic before lunatic was cool, has an announcement to make.

On September 18th, a grand jury in Ocala, Florida, indicted President Barack Obama for using a false birth certificate to run for president.

Klayman said Obama waived his right to a jury trial by failing to plead a response to the indictment, thus “thumbing his nose at We The People.”

A citizens’ judge then sentenced Obama to the maximum sentence of 10 years, Klayman wrote, and ordered the president to surrender himself into custody.

Thank goodness he didn’t include me in we because the President would never thumb his nose at the best damn beauty salon in Texas.  Florida?  Hell, yes.  Florida deserves some nose thumbing.

Klayman says that President Obama has to go to jail now.  However, I imagine that even Klayman understands that a Florida citizens’ deputy can’t go to Washington, DC, and make a citizens arrest in White House.  Let’s face it, the chances of that happening run from slim to none.  The Secret Service gets testy about stuff like that.

So, Klayman has picked a day to remedy that.

Klayman said that day could be Nov. 19, when he’s calling on “millions of Americans who have been appalled and disgusted by Obama’s criminality – his Muslim, socialist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-radical gay and lesbian agenda — among other outrages” to march on Washington and demand the president resign or face prison time.

I suspect there will be much finger shaking, bad spelling,  a few Don’t Tread on Me flags, and 18 old white people with lawn chairs and a packed lunch.

I did love this statement from Klayman.

“King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian,” Klayman said.

Oh yes, there are many Christian greedy control freaks.  Klayman could find one by looking in the mirror.

Can’t you just hear him, “The Klan may have had bad taste in dressing, but at least they were Christians.”

Thanks to TexasTrailerParkTrash for the heads up.

Oh you’re going to love this.

Ted Cruz’s health insurance is better than the rest of Congress.  He has insurance through his wife, Heidi, who is a regional head of a Goldman Sachs division.

According to a 2009 New York Times report, top executive officers and managing directors at the bank participate in a health care program that costs Goldman more than $40,000 in premiums for each particpant’s family annually.

Yeah, $40,000 can buy you a lot of that “freedom” that Cruz keeps talking about.

He doesn’t take congressional insurance because it’s not good enough for him.

He’s up there on a perch so high that he can duck hunt with a net and he’s looking down on us trying to convince us that we don’t want any ducks.

That guy is a regular Marie Antoinette.  And, come to think of it, he does have a lot of her mannerisms.

On the upside, he can now afford to get medical treatment for being thrown under the bus.

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Thanks to Barbara E. and Alfredo for the heads up.

Former Republican Senator and now President of the Heritage Society (oops, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit) Jim DeMint sees a backdoor.

You know how even John McCain says that the American people made their choice about Obamacare during the 2012 election?  And Obamacare won?  And that pretty much settles it?

DeMint found a backdoor.

“Because of Romney and Romneycare, we did not litigate the Obamacare issue,” the Heritage Foundation president told Bloomberg Businessweek’s Joshua Green in a story published Thursday.

DeMint says we really didn’t talk about Obamacare in the last election because of Romneycare.

You know what that means, don’t you?  The whole 2012 election doesn’t count.

And that’s why they can destroy Obamacare.

You know, with sufficient thrust like this, pigs really can fly.

And it’s going to shock you that he’s not from Texas.  He’s from Ohio.  Which proves, once again, that gun nuttery is contagious.

Paul Trimacco is 31 years old and he lives in Struthers, Ohio, with his girlfriend and his 9 year old son.  The neighbors called the police last week to report that  that shots were fired at Trimacco’s house at 2:30 in the morning.

When police arrived, Trimacco was in the backyard.

When police arrived at the residence, they found Trimacco — with his face painted, and donning camouflage military fatigues and a helmet — walking around the backyard and carrying a gun.

He told the police that someone had tried to break into his house and he fired shots.  And that the burglar returned gunfire and hit him in the hip.  The reason for his get-up at 2:30 am?  Well, of course, someone had tried to break into his house the night before and he was sitting up waiting for them because he thought they might try again.  And you paint your face just in case Duck Dynasty needs a new character.  Okay, I made the last thing up but the rest is true.

The police smelled something fishy because police are trained to do that.

Then the real story finally comes splattering out.

Trimacco confessed to making up the burglary story to explain how he actually shot himself while testing the credibility of his flak jacket, because he didn’t want his girlfriend to know the truth about his injuries. Trimacco said he’d been hit by a ricochet while shooting the jacket, and that he later fired several rounds in his basement — and blamed them on a burglar — to cover up the accident.

Wait, are you telling me that the flac jacket caused a ricochet?  Hey, at least it would work for the wearer.  Friends close by would be in trouble, though.

And the reason he Trimacco would be Man of the Year not not some damn runner-up?

According to the police report, Trimacco had accidentally shot himself a few months prior to last week’s incident, too.

We have our winner.

Thanks to Bananas for the heads up.