The GOP nominee for the Texas Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison makes bologna look pure.  Ted Cruz is an opportunistic self-promoter with absolutely no moral center and the ethics of a tomcat.  And those are his good points.

Dana Milbank had an opportunity to meet Ted Cruz and came away with his Bullcorn Detector red lining.

Milbank is hoping that Cruz is just scamming the Tea party to get them to vote for him, and offers up this thought —

Maybe I’m kidding myself, but I prefer to believe Cruz is playing the tea party for his own gain. The Senate can tolerate an operator more easily than another ideologue.

The problem with that is that Cruz needs the Tea Party to be re-elected so he will vote their way and scream their soundbites and dig his heels in and pride himself on being Louie Gohmert’s voice in the Senate.

It doesn’t matter if he believes that crap or not.  He will vote that crap.

And every single time Ted Cruz opens his mouth the crazy meter gets a jolt.

Ann Romney was quoted this morning as saying that they were not going to release any more tax returns.

She said that releasing more details on the family’s taxes would merely give the Obama campaign “more ammunition.”

Actually, Ann, we really don’t need any more ammunition.  We just need a bigger clip to hold all the ammunition we do have.

Thanks to Scott for the heads up.

Quit, Mitt.

Seriously?  You think that cutting Public Broadcasting and Amtrak is the answer?

Romney identified subsidies for Amtrak, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities as things he would eliminate. The government spends $444 million a year on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the parent organization of PBS); Amtrak received $1.56 billion in federal funding in 2010, with $1.3 billion in stimulus funds; while the National Endowment of the Arts lists the current level of federal funding at approximately $146 million.

Yeah, let’s cut things that have the word “public” in them.  Public is a bad word.  Arts – there’s another bad word.  Amtrak?  Let them eat cake in their Rolls Royce.

I want you guys to meet my esteemed seatmate on State Democratic Executive Committee.  His name is The Honorable Huey Rey Fischer and he is the youngest member of the Executive Committee.

(No, I am not the oldest and even if I were, do you think I’d admit to that?  There’s at least three white guys older than me and they are fond of getting up at meetings and saying things like, “If we’ve been doing something the same way for 100 years, there’s probably a good reason for it.”  Yeah, like how we still require everybody to ride a horse to Austin for the meeting.  They also announced that before we got any cockamamie newfangled ideas, we should check with the three old white guys prior to doing anything.  You know, because the old white guys are endowed with special knowledge and they have done such a bang up job making the Texas Democratic Party successful.  These opinions are my own and not Huey’s.  Huey is a much nicer person than I am.)

The Honorable Huey Rey Fischer

Anyway, Huey sits next to me and doesn’t make fun of me when I lose my glasses or attempt to tap on my computer screen thinking it’s my iPad, which I think is real nice of him.  He taught me how to Twitter during the Tom DeLay trial and even showed me how to win free pizza on the Twitter machine, which comes in handier than you’d suspect.

Huey is a student at UT (Hook ‘Em) and the retired president of University Democrats there.  He’s like 20 years old and already an elder statesman emeritus.

He’s kinda smart and plenty conniving.  In the good way.  Two years ago, he found a loophole that allowed him to serve on a committee at the State Convention before he was even allowed to register to vote.  He will be voting in his first Presidential election this year and is already on the Executive Committee and a national delegate.  Hell, it took me 45 years to do that and I am one conniving machine.

So you might have noticed a new link over there to the right for the Texas Monitor.  Huey and some friends started a blog of young, progressive voices in Texas.  I check it every day and especially to see if my seatmate has something smart to say.  He often does.

The only fault I can find with Huey is that he’s a vegetarian.  In Texas.  That just ain’t right.

Watch this kiddo.  He’s going places.

As you know, Tom DeLay has been tragically unsuccessful in the free market since scamming the election code, leaving  Congress and being convicted of a felony.  That great business environment he created for America became a real dud for himself – every business venture he’s tried has failed spectacularly.

Until now.

I read the entire article twice and I still don’t know whether Tom’s lobbying for or against sex trafficking.

Just saying.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Why did we possibly think that we could get away with hiding Barack Obama’s previous marriage to his Harvard roommate – a Pakistani man? We should have known that the smart people on the right would figure out all the clues.

The evidence is overwhelming and the Tea Party has investigated it and brought out the facts.

Before he was married to Michelle, Barack Obama was photographed with what appears to be a ring on his wedding ring finger.

And, then there’s this —-

“His Pakistani roommate, whom we also went to Pakistan with, from Occidental, seems to have been — take a look at pictures of he and his roommate together — Obama had all these roommate pictures, seems to be sitting about on the guy’s lap,” Corsi explained.

So there ya go, (1) wedding ring, (2) sitting on lap,and (3)  Obama approves of same sex marriage …. that can ONLY mean one thing.  Barack Obama was married to a Pakistani man before he married Michelle.

I think it is horribly unfair for President Obama to want to see Mitt Romney’s tax returns while Obama will not show proof that he was not married to his Harvard roommate.  That should be pretty simple to do – just look at every marriage license issued in Pakistan and the Unites States for a ten year period and if none are for Obama/Roommate, then that’s a start.

I hate it when they catch us in these lies.  As the TEA party dude says —

Increasingly, I try to point out to people that Obama’s life reads like a classic intelligence agency disinformation operation.

Yeah, because if the CIA were grooming a President it would not be the idiot son of the former CIA Director who would take orders without question.  No, siree, it would be a black guy from Hawaii.

Thanks to Bananas for the heads up.