So it appears that we have a break from the Senate on background checks at gun shows and internet sales of military grade munitions.

So have they got Ted Cruz locked in a closet somewhere or is this compromise just meant to give the GOP an escape route from listening to Ted Cruz tell the truth about their Party during a filibuster?  You know for a fact that if they let Ted Cruz stand up there and talk for an hour or more, he’s gonna say more stooopid things that grandma can kill with her hoe.

And he’s going to do it in that GOP unapproved lispy way that has got to send shivers up, sideways, and down their spines.

And then we have Senator James Inhofe showing all the sensitivity of a snake.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Tuesday that the gun control debate doesn’t have anything to do with the families of the Newtown, Conn., shooting victims, and that the only reason those families think it does is because President Barack Obama told them it did.

Ain’t that kinda like saying, “You’ve not only lost your child, you’ve lost your brain.”

Nice going, Inhofe.  This makes us wonder what you say about these families behind closed doors if this is what you say in public.

Hey, Inhofe, did you add that you only babble like that because the NRA tells you to?

Pull that rifle outta your butt, Bubby, and try to act like a American for once.

I am with 700 other Texas Women in Austin today

Talk amongst yourselves until I get through raising hell.

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This was the delegation / girlfriends from my county to the Texas Blue Ribbon Day.  Everybody’s feet hurt this morning but we’re all still grinning!

We are turning Texas Blue!

Remind me who it was who thought Bobby Jindal was the bright rising star of the GOP.

Honey, whoever is was has about the same credibility as Karl Rove and Dick Morris.

Bobby is riding in the back of the crazy wagon this week.

Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) is pulling a plan to replace the income and corporate tax with a new sales tax amid an outcry from groups ranging from clergy to business lobbyists.

Ya know, when you have both the clergy and the business people against you, you’re hurting pretty damn bad in the GOP.  I mean, that double play is hard to make.  You can’t do it by accident.

Do they have a rest and rehabilitation home for accident prone Republican candidates?  If not, we should think about building one – we’d occupy every floor and turn a profit within a month.

By the way, is this the same Bobby Jindal who said that the Republicans should stop being the stupid Party?   Oh dude, heal thyself.

Rick Perry has made it official.

He’s gonna do it.

Hot damn on a sizzling platter, the man is gonna run for President.

He has, of course, three reasons:  (1) He’s rested, (2) He’s ready, and (3) Oops, he’s ready to make a fool of himself again.

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Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.

You know how Grover Norquist and the NRA threaten to “primary” Republicans who don’t walk lockstep with their wacko far right unAmerican idiotic hurtful and damn stinkin’ mean goals?

Well, Texas just got lucky.  Republicans here are facing the same threats but from a different group: the people who want to make money off education.

The same group of people who used to sell used cars want  to go into the education business – building private schools.  They used to roll back the speedometer and now they want to roll back arithmetic and reading.

When you think school vouchers, visualize dollar signs going into the pocket of some guy in a plaid sports coat and a belly hanging over his belt.

Texas held back school vouchers this year, thanks to some level-headed GOP support.

GOP heavy hitters in the House joined in the 103-43 bipartisan vote for the budget amendment, saying money appropriated to the Texas Education Agency may not be used for school vouchers or tax-credit scholarships.

The GOP support came from rural Republicans who know full well that vouchers will be the death of Texas rural education.  Nobody seeing dollar signs wants to set up shop in a town with one school and a graduating class of 45 seniors.  So, those public schools will suffer greatly under big business education.

So, it comes down to Republicans threatening to primary each other.  The rightwingers are going to primary those who voted against vouchers and the rural Republicans will ban together to primary those who did.

Democrats?  Well, we’re just pickin’ and grinnin’.

John McCain is often legitimately confused about stuff but I think he’s faking it here.

There are 13 Republican senators pledging to filibuster the new gun legislation.

“I don’t understand it,” McCain said on CBS’ Face the Nation.” “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where to stand.”

Oh, this ain’t no sudden burst of damned if I know.  I’m telling ya – él entiende bueno.

McCain knows that when 92% of the American public support this legislation but Republicans can’t hack off their NRA overlords, there will not be a vote.

Thanks to David for the heads up.