Okay, out in West Texas it is said that there are water wells so deep that you have to strain the rice out before you can drink it.

Mitt Romney’s campaign is now straining the rice out.  You cannnot go deeper and lower than he’s gone.

He is sashaying out Phil Gramm.  Paul Krugman explains.

But what really boggles my mind is the Romney campaign’s evident belief that it gains credibility by rolling out Phil “Mental Recession” Gramm as a spokesman. Gramm is best known these days for dismissing the risks to the economy when a recession was already underway and a catastrophic crisis was just around the corner, meanwhile denouncing us as a “nation of whiners”.

So, you’ve got a guy who thinks we’re whiners because we won’t buck up and take the economic beating he and his friends have given this country.  A guy who could very well be heading to prison for helping rich dudes (yeah, I’m looking at you, Mitt Romney) illegally hide money while he was vice-chair of the Swiss Bank, UBS.

What?  This is hush-attention?  Phil Gramm will keep his mouth shut about Romney’s hidden money if Romney lets him screw this country one more time?

Seriously, Romney.  You need a big ole mug of reality.

Seriously.

Thanks to Tony C for the heads up.

Okay, so when Rick Perry first ran for President and scored a perfect 10 in the Damfool Event in a field of damfool experts, they tried to say that he wasn’t on drugs, that he was actually just that ignorant and crazy.

People still suspected drugs because the perfect 10 had never been reached before, even by Fred Thompson.

So, now they are saying that he was so goofy because he has sleep apnea – something that probably went undiagnosed for a decade or more.

Okay. Chronological excuses for Rick Perry being a damfool.  First, not drugs.  Second, sleep apnea.  Third … oops.

Damfool.

Speaking of women — In  the movie A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks says to Geena Davis about playing baseball, “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”

Yes, Ann, we know hard is new to you, Honey, but don’t make such a fuss about it.  Try instead to be great.

Customer Cassy up in McKinney, Texas, put out her certified Obama yardsign.

Here’s what someone did to it.

The uncensored version is here.  This is gonna get nasty, y’all.  They know they are going to lose, so this is what they do.

It’s like that great American poet Kris Kristofferson said, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”

Feelin’ good is good enough for me, Honey.

Thanks to Cassy for the heads up.

Thanks to Texas Ellen for the heads up.

Louie, Louie … Oh Louie, you’ve dived into the deep end.

Speaking on the House floor Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) claimed President Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East was “a massive beginning of a new Ottoman Empire that [he] can take great credit for.” Gohmert continued, “This president is trying to buy affection from people who are bullies, who are radical Islamists, who want to destroy us.” The Texas Republican has a history of Islamophobic behavior.

Somebody please tell Louie what caused the fall of the Ottoman Empire – ethnic battles within the empire. You know, the same kind of battles that Louie hopes will bring down the United States of America.

Damfool.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.