You know, I really wish the President hadn’t said that stuff about skeet shooting at Camp David.

First off, I’m from Texas and even I don’t think that the ability to kill skeet is something we need in a President.  I’d been far more impressed if he had said that he shot empty beer cans off stumps.

Second off, Dick Cheney could shoot a friend in the face but that didn’t win him the Nobel Prize.

Third off, we had a woman who could field dress a damn moose and we were not impressed.

Last off, Marsha Blackburn, a United States Representative from Tennessee who sold all her skeet for botox, now wants to go on vacation with the President, which is something big considering that her hometown has a monument to Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, a founder of the KKK.

Now here’s where it gets weird.

She challenged him to a skeet shooting contest.

“If he is a skeet shooter, why have we not heard of this? Why have we not seen photos? Why has he not referenced it at any point in time as we have had this gun debate that is ongoing?” the Tennessee Republican asked CNN’s Erin Burnett.

Remember birthers?  Now we got Skeeters?

Oh Lord, help us.

Maybe it’s just me, but I suspect that the day we let some crazy Republican woman go to a secluded place with the President and give her a gun is the day cows give beer.

Somebody needs to sit Marsha down and explain to the poor dear that if she does in fact beat Barack Obama at skeet shooting, that does not make her President.    Shooting hoops makes you President.

Thanks to Kathleen for the heads up.

The Hook and Gig ‘Em Bill.  HB778

Sec. 51.9246. FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN AND TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY.

(a)The intercollegiate football teams of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University shall annually play a nonconference, regular-season football game against one another.

(b)If The University of Texas at Austin or Texas A&M University refuses to play the football game required by Subsection (a) in a year, the university may not award to any student for the following academic year an athletic scholarship, grant, or similar financial assistance funded with state money and conditioned on the student ’s participation on the university ’s intercollegiate football team.

Because it should be the law, dammit.

Thanks to the Other Susan for the heads up.

Oh, Louie, God love ya.  It ain’t easy keeping your name on top of the Whack Stack every damn day, but you – yes, you, Louie, are up for the challenge.

Louie has a money-making scheme.  He wants all of President Obama’s former students at the University of Chicago Law School to file a class action suit against the President because …

Gohmert, along with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), appeared on Fox News’ Hannity to discuss a recent court ruling that found Obama had violated the Constitution when making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The three-judge panel said the Senate remained formally in session when Obama made the appointments during Christmas break.

“It is part of the Constitution,” Gohmert said. “I think one of the big legal ramifications that should come out of this is a class-action lawsuit by all of those who had him as a constitutional law instructor to get their money back. I think it would be a lay-down case for them.”

Yes, and a three judge panel has the final word of constitutionality, said no law professor ever.

Hey, Louie gets points for just the sheer volume of crazy crap.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

So you heard that of the three senators who voted against John Kerry for Secretary of State, two were from Texas.  That’s only because they won’t let us have 3 senators from Texas.

Ted Cruz

Most everybody knew that Ted Cruz was angling for Top Gun Teapartier status so he had to do something wild and crazy right away and making signs with misspelled words is so … well, yesterday.  Literally, yesterday – and probably tomorrow, too.

So, Cruzapolooza went for broke and bad mouthed a guy with a distinguished military career as being anti-military.  Cruz didn’t serve in the military, which means he loves the military because not serving was the nicest thing he could do for America.

Most folks, however, were a little taken back over John Cornyn’s vote.  John Cornyn is so slick he can’t keep his socks up so we figured something was going on besides just  “Holy crap, People, I’m from Texas so I have to be stoopid.”

Sure ’nuff.

The founder and director of a grass-roots conservative group said he expects Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, to face a primary challenge. Cornyn is up for re-election in 2014.

“I don’t know how good of a primary challenge he is going to get at this point, but he will get a primary challenge,” said Dean Wright, co-founder and director of New Revolution Now, based in Austin, Texas.

John Cornyn

Now I’m here to tell you that  Cornyn knows that his vote was numbskulled and idiotic.  He’s fully aware of that.  So instead following the advice of party leaders for Republicans to quit being stupid and mean, Cornyn wants to lead the herd of chickadees down the path of self destruction because he’d rather be a shameless floozy in the senate than a wise and respected person anywhere else.  Ain’t that just the saddest thing you’ve heard all day?

By the way, the only reason that Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma voted against Kerry is that stoopid spreads north.  Luckily, Tom Coburn was wearing a tin foil hat.

That’s the truth.  You can look it up.

So now you know who elects these fools in Texas.

Two people were critically injured in an explosion and fire Tuesday morning after smoking on a catwalk over oil storage tanks, officials say.

According to Van Zandt County Fire Marshal Chuck Allen, at about 3 a.m. firefighters were called to a fire at an oil storage facility north of Van, Texas, along state Highway 110.

And get this – they were trespassing.

I certainly hope they were not smoking after you-know-what.

Which reminds me of an old joke.  Do you smoke after sex?  If so, you’re doing it too fast.

(Nobody tell Momma, ya hear?)

Thanks to Jan for the heads up.

Yeah, now we have numbers.

Honey, I am so sick of Rick Perry that I’d have to get better to die.  It appears that I am not alone.

PPP’s newest poll finds that only 31% of voters think Perry should seek reelection next year, compared to 62% who think it’s time for him to step aside. He’s among the most unpopular Governors in the country, with only 41% of voters approving of him to 54% who disapprove.

Okay, that’s the good news.  But don’t get to celebrating yet, because  ….

The bad news outweighs it.  The old white dude who most likely would win to GOP primary is … shiver, shiver … Greg Abbott, the meanest man in Texas.  He would steal a widow woman’s kindling and hire a stripteaser for a blind man’s birthday.  He makes a hornet look cuddly.

But, Perry is over.  Texans finally got to see the guy answer questions in a uncontrolled situation and he embarrassed the tarnation out of them.

There’s been some speculation recently that Perry might be interested in making another bid for the White House. But only 14% of Texans think Perry should run again, to 79% who are opposed to the idea. Even among his fellow Republicans only 22% think Perry should run for President again with 66% against the concept.

Yeah, they finally got to see Rick Perry and saw that he was dumber than bean dip.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.