In one of those “We Really Can’t Let These People Govern” moments, the Pima County Republican Party, which is in Gabrielle Giffords district, is raising money…..

Now listen.

… by raffling off a Glock 40.  The same gun used to shoot Representative Giffords.

I’ll let you quit cringing before I continue.

Ready yet?

Okay.  Here we go.

You don’t believe me, do you?

The Republican Party in Arizona’s Pima County, which is represented by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), is in the midst of a fundraising raffle, $10 per entry.

The prize: the same model of gun that delivered a near-fatal blast to the Democratic lawmaker’s skull outside a Tucson grocery store in January.

Tucson is in Pima County.

Click the little one to get the big one.  That’s a screen shot from their newsletter which I just took minutes ago.

I guess they couldn’t get the original, so they threw in  three 12 round magazines, adjustable grips, and a case.  Because that’s just what you need for your well regulated militia.

In Gabrielle Giffords’ district.  Does the winner have to prove sanity or just that they have $10 and a need to shoot someone?

Thanks to Nancy for the heads-up and I do mean HEADS-FREEKIN-UP, FRIENDS.

Well, it seems that Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are headlining today at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.

First, the Federal Election Commission has some questions about Ms. Palin’s Super PAC expenditures.  About that trip to the Holy Land ….. SarahPac (the whole thing in pdf format)

Itemized disbursements must include a brief statement or description of why each disbursement was made. Please amend Schedule B supporting Line 21(b) of your report to clarify the following description(s): “Chief of Staff,” “COS Consulting, Mileage Reimbursement,” “Fundraising, Meetings, Communication,” “Fundraising, Treasurer Consulting,” “fundraising and Treasurer,” “Fundraising and treasurer duties Consulting,” and “Political and COS Consulting.” For further guidance regarding acceptable purposes of disbursement, please refer to 11 CFR 104.3(b)(3)(i).

And then there’s Ms. Bachmann.  In South Carolina, Bachmann is running anti-Rick Perry ads, which makes her our Hooter Toter of the Day!  She is the first time Republican recipient of this prestigious award.   You can see the ad and donate to the cause right here.

Oh, this is going to be a fun primary season.

… this might be fun.

Judge Sam Sparks is going to have a little party with some lawyers.

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.  Okay, maybe not if you’re Mr. Woods or Mr. Barton.

Thanks to Ken for the heads up.

It seems that Rick Perry, as Texas Agriculture Commissioner in 1993, wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton saying, “I think your efforts in trying to reform the nation’s health care system are most commendable.”

The letter goes on to ask Hillary to  consider the unique needs of “farmers, ranchers, and agriculture workers, and other members of rural communities.”

Rick now says he was just trying to remind Hillary that rural people should be taken into account because Hillary, you know, wouldn’t know a damn thing about rural people, coming from that industrialized and rich Arkansas place.

So, Rick obviously thought the nation’s health care needed reforming.  Anybody see his plan for that?  i know it’s gotta be around here someplace.  I just can’t find it.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.

Like the lamestream media, I mostly ignore Ron Paul.  His congressional district starts just down the road from me and I’ve successfully ignored him and his embarrassing adoration of Ayn Rand for many years.  I kept hoping he’d outgrow it and catch up with the emotionally mature people who got over Ayn Rand at the age on 17 or so.

He didn’t.

And now he’s hacked me off.  He wants to get rid of FEMA.

And he used the 1900 Galveston hurricane as an example of how Galveston “survived just fine” without FEMA.

Galveston after the 1900 storm

Okay, Ron Paul crossed the line.  My Grandpa lived through the 1900 Galveston storm.  He was 10 years old.  His parents, who also survived, left the island for New Orleans after searching for months for the bodies of their parents, who they never found.   Until the day he died, my Grandpa would not discuss the storm except for saying that it was something he spent a lifetime trying to forget.

My friend Hal gave Ron Paul a lesson in survival that I cannot improve upon.

The only reason my Grandpa survived was because the United States Army came with shelter and medical supplies.  You know, like FEMA does now.

FEMA did not work under George Bush because of cronyism.  Remember that when Rick Perry asks for your vote.

I disagree with Hal about letting Ron Paul do your pregnancy test.  Any grown up who still adores Ayn Rand lacks the compassion gene.  I want my doctor to have that.

Kellybee sent me an email this morning noticing how quiet the Republicans have become since President Obama took out bin Laden and this dude —-

Has anyone noticed the Republicans’ non-response to the news that the Obama administration has just knocked off the most pivotal player in al Qaeda?

Perhaps you didn’t hear about this. On Saturday, counter-terrorism officials announced that a drone attack had wasted the group’s number two, the chief of international operations. Experts are saying that, on the significance scale, this new hit arguably ranks with the hit on Osama bin Laden ….

The President’s plan of taking out the terrorist leaders is so superior than anything Bush / Cheney ever did, that the Republican response has been …. hummm, I hear crickets.

So much for President Obama being an al Qaeda sympathizer or Democrats being weak on national security.

Crickets.  That’s all we hear from the GOP. Well, at least that beats the whine we generally hear.

Thanks to Kellybee for the heads-up.