Texas Congressvarmint Louie Gohmert, that man of understated wit, was confounded by the Supreme Court decision on DOMA.  Why, the poor man could barely find words …

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) reacted to two Supreme Court rulings on Wednesday by suggesting that same sex marriage “is usually tried at the end of a great civilization.”

Yeah, well, too late, Louie.  A great civilization would not elect you.

The gay is falling!  The gay is falling!

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

Lady Justice is blindfolded and holds up scales of justice.

Antonin Scalia hauled his hefty hiney on one side of those scales and tilted them in favor of arrogant absurdity.

He writes ….

… whatever disappearing trail of its legalistic argle-bargle one chooses to follow …

I do not know what argle-bargle is but I think Scalia has a real bad case of it.

I have been married for 42 years and I love Bubba more every day but I do not love him more than Phillip loves Hank or Mary loves Beverly.  Marriage is a contract.  Every adult should have the right to enter into a contract.

Y’all, Scalia totally creeps me out.  Completely.  I would never want to be alone in the same room with him.  He’s just creepy.

I think I need to introduce you folks from foreign states to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.

He’s a jerk.  He’s going to run for Governor so he went to court and legally changed his middle name to NotObama just to save some time and energy.  Okay, so I made that up but it could be true.  So far, it appears that Greg Abbott is running against Barack Obama in 2014.  That’s not easy but, Bless his Heart, he’s trying.

So yesterday, when the Supremes overruled a civil rights law for the first time since the civil war – that’s true, look it up – Abbott waited the proper two hours before demanding that the Secretary of State start requiring a voter ID.

Then he took to Twitter to start doing the wild thing.  Seriously, he’s gonna get warts for what he was doing on twitter.

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Never in the history of Texas has a man worked so hard to keep people from voting.  Well, maybe never is a strong word.  But, at least since last night at the Texas Senate.  He’s working hardest since Republicans did it last night.  There, that’s it.

In Texas, we do not have a driver’s license bureau in every county.  Hell, there’s parts of Texas that don’t get the Today show until tomorrow.  So getting a proper ID isn’t easy.

This also takes Texas out of the bother to get per-clearance on our redistricting maps.  Greg Abbott is sitting in a backroom today with a pencil and a map, drawing lines to make all our representatives just like Louie Gohmert.   I do not even want to think how excited that makes him.

Greg Abbott has to walk sideways to keep from flying today.  He is so excited that he’s one step closer to world domination by old white men wanting to tie Sweet Nell to the railroad tracks.

Here’s what’s gonna happen.  Rick Perry has been studying up real hard to be able to count to three so he’s gonna run for President.  Greg Abbott is gonna run for Governor by trying to keep minorities, young people and old people from voting.

Welcome to Texas, where men are men and women need to be in charge.

If you go to the Google today and google the word “gay,” here’s what you get:

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That makes me smile from my nose to my toes.

Thanks you Deb T. for the heads up.

Thank God that the eyes of Texas were upon the Senate chambers last night.

I need to be honest and tell you that it’s 9:30 am and I just rolled my sweet patootie outta bed.  I’m sitting here in my jammies with coffee – no breakfast yet because I ate cereal at 4:00 this morning and then went to bed.

Here’s the bottom line.  The vote was after the midnight deadline and does not count.  The filibuster won.  And there’s a great story of intrigue behind it, as there always is in Texas politics.

Now, there are several things I want to explain to you people from foreign states.

First, the good stuff — I do not want to take anything away from Wendy Davis.  She is amazing and should be the next Governor of Texas.  Facebook agrees.  But, Senator Leticia Van de Putte’s call to action for Texas women broke the camel’s back.  Senator Royce West and Senator Kirk Watson did an amazing parliamentary job to keep the clock rolling.

Most amazing was the people’s filibuster.  The crowd filling the gallery, the hallways, and the rotunda of the Texas Capitol was breathtaking and I’ve never seen anything like it.  The last 15 minutes of the filibuster was done by the gallery, risking jail and a couple of unruly DPS officers.  The roar was amazing.

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Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, who lost the senate primary to Ted Cruz and has been determined ever since to get to the right of Cruz, made the largest big ugly butt of himself last night and probably needs to go both to hell and jail.

David Dewhurst

Blaming the “unruly mob” (which is his description of Texas women), Dewhurst first said the vote on SB5 was taken at 11:59 pm.  However, the computerize time stamp said 12:02 am.  How do you resolve that?  Well, Darlin’, you simply change the time stamp to say what you want it to say.  In other words, you commit the felony offense of tampering with a government document.  That is what Dewhurst did.

Now conveniently, Governor Rick Perry vetoed funding for the public integrity unit of the Travis County DA’s office earlier this month, so Dewhurst knew full well that he couldn’t be prosecuted for this felony.  It’s like they made bank robbery legal and expected Republicans not to rob banks because it’s the morally wrong thing to do.  Super DeLux Brand Christians have to have rules in order to behave because they have no damn morals.

So, when photographic evidence was produce that Dewhurst has no morals, a quick back room private caucus was held of the Texas senate.  I have no way of knowing, of course, what happened in that back room but I’ll bet Senator Dan Patrick and David Dewhurst were wishing they had worn Depends.

If Governor Perry does, indeed, call a special session to pass SB5, all hell will break loose.  Click the little one to see the big one.

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I’ve got a deadline over at Crooks and Liars today about the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott demanding voter ID two hours after the Supreme Court rulings yesterday so I’m outta here to get that done.

But, you know what, the only voter fraud I’ve seen in Texas was in the Texas senate last night and Gregg Abbott was nowhere to be found.

I’ll see ya this afternoon to talk about the great news from the Supremes today.

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Meanwhile, thank you people from foreign states for also being the Eyes of Texas.

Okay here’s the deal, Bubba and I had a reception at our house tonight for the three young Battleground Texas fellows.   We raised a little money to help them pay for gas and got them some contacts to get to know the activists in the county.  I think my county hit the Battleground Texas lottery.  We have three great kids – Elizabeth, Brianna, and Larry.  Adrienne Bell, the damn near perfect Battleground Texas  organizer for 7 counties, including mine, also came and explained their plans.

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The entire time, we had one ear – and a good reporter, thank you Glen Maxey – tuned to Wendy Davis’s filibuster on the Texas Senate floor.  Last I heard (about 9:00) there were 1,000 people waiting to get into the senate chambers.

The President tweeted that something special is happening in Texas.

No shoot, Sherlock!

Senator Davis has two points of order (strikes) against her.  One for discussing Roe v. Wade, which the Republicans said was not “germane” to women’s  reproductive rights.  The second was for Senator Rodney Ellis actually touching her very briefly to adjust her back brace.  Three strikes and she’s out.  That, apparently, is their plan.

If they do, 1,000 Texans in Austin and thousands more at home are ready to stand their ground.   Bubba just told me that 36,000 people are watching the filibuster on You Tube.

This is Wendy at 9:30 pm, with 2 and half hours to go.  She can have no water, no bathroom breaks, no food, no leaning on the podium, no sitting.  She’s gonna make it.

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I’m staying up.  I’m standing with Wendy.

With 2 hours to go, Lt Gov David Dewhurt ruled that sonograms have nothing to do with reproductive rights.  That’s 3 strikes.  He says it is over.  Shouts of Let Her Speak from the gallery.  The DPS is removing people from the gallery.

Senator Kirk Watson appeals the decision of the chair.  I think he’s hoping to keep the appeal going for 2 hours.

The parliamentary debate continues at 10:30.  Lt Gov Dewhurst has left the chamber.  I just heard that 103,000 are watching on You Tube.  Senator Wendy Davis is still standing.

54 minutes left with the microphones off and all manner of cahooting going on.

Senator Leticia Van de Putte is everybody’s other hero tonight.  There’s 3000 people in the rotunda yelling even louder.   Republicans would be fools to railroad this now.

I am damn proud to be a Texas woman tonight! The citizens filibuster finished the job.

Nobody seems to know what is going on.  My state rep just called and fears that the GOP snuck it through.  There has been some wrestling in the gallery with DPS officers.

“WHO WOULD HAVE EVER DREAMED THAT THE AMERICAN SPRING WOULD HAVE STARTED IN TEXAS?” Margot Nielsen

I’ll tell you know what happened when I know.  It’s 12:30 and nobody seems to know what happened.

As we wait to find out what happened, some of you have asked me where to send money.  Contributions both small and large can be made here where I can personally promise you it will be spent wisely.

Okay, it all boils down to when did the vote happen.  Republicans say 11:59 and Democrats (and everybody watching) sat 12:02.  There will be a court battle.