Well, he announced.  And he’s got a website.

My personal favorite quote:  “And I will work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your lives as I can.”  Well, I guess we know what that means for Social Security and Medicare, don’t we?

Intelligence has the same effect on Rick Perry as daylight does on Dracula.

The Texas Democratic Party responded with their website, Meet Rick Perry.

I do not know what is funnier, a bad lawyer or one who writes like a histrionic high school  sophomore with flowers up their tookus.

Tom DeLay just made that decision a little easier.

Tom claims that he’s spent $10 million on lawyers.  If that is true, he is the proud owner of the most expensive pile of crap in the nation.

Lookie here.  His high priced appeals lawyer quoted Hollywood movies and Shakespeare (who John Steinbeck did a tad better quoting)  in a trite and silly 107 page brief that basically argues that (1) checks are not money, only cash is money and (2) DeLay used the money he illegally gained to elect a court of appeals who changed the law to make what he did legal.

This is like killing your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you’re a orphan.

Or saying that if I buy your watch and pay with a hot check, that’s okay because checks aren’t money anyway.

There’s an old saying in the legal profession that if you have a guilty client, your best hope is to postpone the case until everyone dies or the law changes.

But, the brief hardly matters and I suspect his lawyer knows that.  The court of appeals in Texas is Republican owned, operated, bought, and paid for.

And that’s how you spend $10 million on lawyers.

Does it include a prayer to stop being delusional?

He’s all over the media, but one of my favorite lines is here.  Observing how Rick Perry said that we just need to turn the nation’s problems over to God —

Prayer can be meditative, healing, and humbling.  It can also be magical thinking.  Given how Perry has said he would govern by outsourcing to the supernatural, it’s worth asking if God is ignoring him.

I’m gonna tell you one thing – Rick Perry is so dumb that he can’t swallow his own spit, but he’s off and runnin’ for President because Dubya proved that all the American people want is for their President to be sure.  He can be wrong and he can be dumb, but if he’s bullheaded sure about something, that’s all they want.

Rick Perry has a one-word solution to all the country’s problems:  pray.  Remember after 9-11 when George Dubya had a one word solution – shop?

Crazy.  Completely crazy.

I honestly believe that if you told the American people that for sure we could solve all our problems by jumping, we’d have an Olympic hurdle team in every damn zip code.

We have dumbed down education so much in the country that we no longer want bumper sticker solutions – we want 4 letter solutions.

By the way, Texans for Public Justice welcomes Perry to the spotlight with a handy little pdf.

For you folks from foreign states, please let me explain that The Texas Governor has few if any official duties.  He appoints members to the various “commissions” in Texas in exchange for a campaign donation, is in charge of coyote control, liaison to the National Rifle Association, has been instrumental in cutting funding to already abysmal education and Medicaid programs, and occasionally commissions a redneck survey to see if he’s done enough to hurt minorities, poor people and Democrats.

A whole hand full of folks sent me the New York Times article, but I found the Texans for Public Justice on my own.

He said it.  I report it.

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert told a conservative talk show host earlier this week that having Nancy Pelosi’s face on golf balls would put “oomph” into your game, and joked with the host that he would help him find a sleeve of Pelosi-stamped balls.

Stay classy, Louie.

You gotta understand East Texas:  Pines, Poverty and Pentecostals.  Oh yeah, and wife beaters.

Sometimes you have to wonder what’s hiding under all that piousness and conservatism.

Usually, it’s something in the closet.  Waaaaay back in the closet.

Another married Republican lawmaker got caught hiring a male hooker.  But, this wasn’t normal stuff.  Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle got weird.  First he tells the 18 year old  young man he found on Craigslist  that he’s a state lawmaker and shows off his ID.

Gibson said he had posted on Craigslist before but had never met up with someone. Knowing he was in a bedroom with a politician, Gibson said, he got cold feet.

“Yeah, I don’t want to do this,” Gibson said he told Hinkle.

He said Hinkle’s response was: “You need to do this, because I came and got you, and I’m not taking you back until we do what we need to do.”

Then it got weird.  It involved an iPad, a Blackberry, a sister, and somebody’s daughter-in-law or something.  Nothing normal like whipped cream or spurs and a whip.

Republicans:  Hiding More Than Their Motives.

Thanks to Alfredo, Deb, Edith Ann, MB, and several of my other kinky friends.

Rick Perry has a campaign consultant named Dave Carney who needs to sneeze because his brain is dusty.

When confronted with the “Texas Miracle” jobs being smoke and mirrors because Texas has more minimum wage jobs than any other state, Carney claimed Democrats were using that argument to attack the working people of America.

No, Dave, and I’m going to write this very slowly so you can understand it, we are not attacking the workers. We are attacking the wage.

I honestly think Sarah Palin has smarter people. Let’s see Dave Carney live on minimum wage.