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Scientific studies proving that you need to have a compassionectomy to be a Republican can be put on hold.  Herman Cain did the hard work for us.

Herman Cain found himself in hot water Monday with Latino Republicans after telling an audience that his solution to illegal immigration along the Mexican border would include a Great Wall of China-like electrified fence that would rise 20 feet high above a moat filled with alligators.

What?  No lions?

Don’t you wonder what they are putting in the tea at those tea parties?

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Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen says he knows for an almost certain fact that this guy is a Texas Republican.  Not safe for work or Momma.

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You know what’s even more fun than catchin’ a Republican in a lie?  Letting his fellow Republicans catch him.

You probably remember Texas Republican Congressvarmint Smokey Joe Barton as the guy who apologized to BP for our Gulf water diluting their oil.  Well, Joe has been pitchin’ a walleyed snot nosed hissy fit about incandescent light bulbs because, apparently, he ain’t got anything else to fret about.

Even Republicans are growing weary of it.  And they threw in Michelle Bachmann just as the icing on the cupcake.

As has been written about here before, a group of GOP lawmakers, including Joe Barton (TX) and Michele Bachmann (MN), have stirred up—along with their talk radio and Fox News cohorts—public concern over what they say is a looming “ban” on incandescent light bulbs.

And then his fellow Republicans go even further.

Unfortunately, these easy-to-prove facts have not prevented Barton, Bachmann and others from pushing legislation to scuttle the new standards. Barton’s legislation, dubbed “The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act” (H.R. 2417), is scheduled for a floor vote in the House of Representatives this evening.

Barton’s irresponsible and embarrassing legislation would accomplish nothing good. It would provide consumers with inferior products that burn out faster and result in higher energy bills. It would threaten the lighting industry’s investment dollars. It would waste energy and result in more pollution.

Lookie at that.  Finally, Republicans saying “pollution” like it’s a bad thing.  Will wonders never cease?

Thanks to Judy for the heads-up.

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Juanita is not outraged at Paul Ryan spending $350 for a bottle of wine at a restaurant.  “Wine in a restaurant is about the same fair price as popcorn in a picture show,” she explains.

What bothers her is that it wasn’t even an American wine.

It was a French wine called Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru.  “What happened with the Republicans being all mad at France?” Juanita asks.  “Plus, it’s just crappy wine.  It was the 3530th most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.”

Paul Ryan’s table ordered 2 bottles for a total of $700.  “Honey, for $700., you could buy 32 bottles of this Pinot Noir from the best winery in Texas.  Or 42 bottles of Etowah Derailer at Savannah Oaks Winery.  Or, my personal favorite, 53 bottles of Slick Willie’s Grape Wine in Hot Springs, Arkansas.”

“And he could have shared some of that wine with the people he was cutting off from their hard earned rightful benefits from social security and medicare.  Which, at least me, would have been the hospitable thing to do,” she explains.

“And since he was dining with lobbyists, they will take this business lunch off their taxes so you and I will end up paying for it.  Darlin’, if I’m buying the wine for Paul Ryan,” she announces, “he’s drinking Purple Moon Shiraz at $4 a bottle.  It tastes like crap, but that’s exactly how I feel about his tax cuts.”

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Juanita thinks it’s Governor Perry’s fault.  “He had everyone pray for rain so he could keep all the cool for himself,” she suspects.

This was my car yesterday afternoon.

It was where people across the south came to cool off.

And it will be worse today.  CNN says most of us will be served medium rare with a side of twice baked potato.

Thelma covered the agricultural news this morning. “It’s so hot that we’re feeding the chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard boiled eggs.  Potatoes are baking in the ground and corn is popping on the stalk.  And the water in watermelons is boiling on the vine.”

Verdelia covered the social news.  “It’s so hot it melted my diamonds.  I used the glove box in my car to bake a cake.  It’s as hot as high school love, Honey.”

It’s hot enough to make hell look like an ice house.

Here’s the forecast for our friend Carl in Cheboygan:

Okay, everybody meetup at Carl’s house.

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We told you about Michelle Bachmann and her Steeple People pledge that included the contention that Black people were better off during slavery because at least most of them had a mother and father back then.

I suspect she’s also jealous that they got 40 acres and a mule.  Plus that really special 3/5th of a vote.

Well, the Steeple People are walking that sucker backwards.

“After careful deliberation and wise insight and input from valued colleagues we deeply respect, we agree that the statement referencing children born into slavery can be misconstrued,” said Julie Summa, a spokeswoman for the Family Leader. “We sincerely apologize for any negative feelings this has caused, and have removed the language from the vow.”

I was at fault?  I misconstrued it?

Noooooooo ……

I didn’t misconstrue diddle squat.

I just wanted you to know that.  But, I think you did all along, didn’t you?

Thanks to David Arm for the heads up.