I told you that last Saturday I went to the Texas Senate Redistricting Hearings. Bubba and His buddy Kyle Longhofer, attorney at law, spoke. They, of course, we were wonderful.

I couldn’t go back today for the House Redistricting Hearings because I had to be in San Antonio by 5:00 and the hearings started at 2:00. Kyle, however, went. I am told by folks who were there that this hearing was a lot more raucous and fun. I don’t know how that could be since I wasn’t there and there are rules in Texas about having fun without me.

To speak at the senate hearing, we filled out one form and submitted it.

Oh, not so such with the House.   Lookie here at the picture at the bottom.

That’s the forms just to speak.

Kyle spoke for Fort Bend County and got a standing ovation at the end of his speech. Kyle knows election law like I know hair spray, and, Honey, I know hair spray.

After he spoke, while they were on a break, State Represenative Rick Miller, whose district is gerrymandered so badly that it looks like an octopus on crack and who is a Thug at Large, came up to Kyle along with Rick’s silly wife and confronted him in an attempt to intimidate him. They wanted to know why Kyle didn’t like him and why he spoke out against him. “My husband is a good man,” Mrs. Miller insisted.

No, Trixie, he is not. Rick is mean, hateful and vicious to women , a coward of the worst sort, a reactionary, dishonest, encourages voter fraud, and stood and watched a 70 year old woman get beat up.. And I have to stop to catch my breath before I get wound up again.

Kyle will not be intimidated. No Democrat is intimidated by you. We hold you in contempt because you are a jerk.

Please meet Virginia GOP lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson.  He is Ken Cuccinelli’s running mate.

Jackson believes that sin causes birth defects and that yoga is based in Satanism. He also believes that “while giving to the poor is important, the most powerful giving for wealth-building is upward giving.”  What he apparently does not believe is that spelling is an act of the devil.  His new self-published book:

To me, the best part is that he has written his own ten commandments, enshrining them in chiseled stone, because apparently God’s weren’t good enough.

I have no idea what he’s going to do with that axe but he better not chop down the Washington Monument.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Ted Cruz announced yesterday that the biggest obstacle to immigration reform is Barack Obama.  When he said it little spittle things were coming out of the side of his mouth, his eyes were glazed over, and he was wiggling his fingers wildly in the air.  Tomorrow Cruz will announce that Barack Obama has never fully explained his whereabouts during the Kennedy assassination and that he is a direct descendant of whatever landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

Ted Cruz has, in the words of Sen. Bob Menendez, a chronic case of Obamaphobia.  PoliticusUSA  puts it this way —

Cruz suffers from Obamaphobia, because he is a reflection of the voters that he is courting. He is preaching to the choir. Those who love Ted Cruz are obsessed almost to the point of mental illness with the “evils” of Barack Obama. For this reason, it is Ted Cruz’s egomaniacal political ambitions that are the biggest challenge to immigration reform.

Cruz’s behavior used to be called Obama Derangement Syndrome, but I think Obamaphobia is a better description. People like Cruz have progressed from derangement to a full on phobia of anything that is associated with the President of the United States.

I think Senator Menendez was being polite.  I think Cruz is dog dump demented and has screw loose in his thinker assembly.  Plus, his fiddle is missing two strings.

Thanks to Zyxomma for the heads up.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.

Travis Considine, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s communications director has be tweeting this morning.

There’s been some additions to the special session other than redistricting.

Yeah, God forbid we have a meeting of the Texas Legislature without putting abortion on the agenda.

Ladies, pack your bags – we’re going to Austin come abortion-talk time.

For people from foreign states who need to catch up – Rosemary Lehmberg is the Travis County DA.  In Travis County (county seat: Austin), the district attorney is charged with investigating and prosecuting public corruption cases all over Texas.  Lehmberg is a Democrat.

She got caught drunk driving.  She admitted her guilt and took the stiffest punishment – she went to jail.

Now Rick Perry wants her to resign.  But not because of her having a drunk driving conviction.  He wants her to resign because he would get to appoint the new district attorney.

And he would appoint one of his Republican good ole boys.  Democrats all over Texas will be found guilty of felony littering.  And Tom DeLay would get his conviction dismissed.

Lehmberg is refusing to step down and Perry can’t force her to do it.

So, he’s doing what Perry does best.  He’s being a bully.