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And y’all thought this would be hard. Ha!
Newt Gingrich, after spending 20 years in Washington and a decade in Washington as a lobbyist, he claims to be a Washington outsider.
And what he said to the Christian Science Monitor? He’s all about change.
Change. Hummmm …..
“This campaign will be the most change campaign,” Newt Gingrich.
Look at him. He’s got loco camped out in his eyeballs.
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There’s a theory in Texas that everyone has two heads – their regular head and their fool head. This is necessary because we tend to often laugh our fool heads off. Having that extra one makes this a less complicate task.
I am laughing my fool head off this morning, thanks to Colbert.
Stephen Colbert may have come upon the perfect way to make some campaign finance reform.
Stephen Colbert might be on the verge of creating quite a headache for Fox News and its contributors, including Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Karl Rove.
On Friday, the Comedy Central host was at the Federal Election Commission to file paperwork on his new “Colbert Super-PAC” and find out whether he can promote his political action committee on “The Colbert Report” or whether it will be considered a campaign contribution from the network’s parent company, Viacom.
Oh, this should be good.
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“Children who are victims of failed personal responsibility are not my problem, nor are they the problem for our government.” — Majority Leader Tim Pawlenty, April 2001 – as quoted in the Aitkin Independent Newspaper
“What a cockamamie crock of cow confetti. Good Lord, this guy makes a hornet look cuddly,” Juanita says with amazement this morning.
“As we say in Texas, ‘Just because his breath smells like bananas don’t mean he’s Tarzan,'” she begins. “And just because Pawlenty is the next Republican at bat for Presidential consideration don’t mean he’s Presidential material. They don’t have a deep bench, you know.”
“Even Fox News jumped all over him for saying that President Barack Obama wear Depends. What the hell kind of thing to say is that? It’s not even clever. It’s just third grade humor. What’s he gonna do if he’s President? Say that Netanyahu eats paste?”
“Y’all,” she says with exasperation, “this is the guy who Sarah Palin beat out for McCain’s running mate. How bad do you have to be to lose to Sarah Palin?”
Juanita says she’s willing to start a betting pool on how long he lasts. She’s betting on longer than Noot, maybe.
(Okay, okay, I know it’s silly to make fun of someone’s name, but, cripes, we’ve run out of things to make fun of him about. Newt has been through the whole list.)
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If you haven’t ever seen Houston’s Art Car Parade, you’ve missed a real treat.
Click the little ones to get the big ones.
This year, there was a beauty shop themed car —
Thelma’s dashboard —
Good advice —
And OH DEAR GOD – stuff —-
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I like the Texas Observer just fine. I do. I’ve written for them and they’ve written about me a couple of times. I subscribe and I also donate money to them. I bought a Jim Hightower hat and a Molly Ivins shirt at one of their auctions, neither of which was a bargain. I thought we had a pretty good relationship.
I have met the editor of the Texas Observer, Bob Moser, one time in passing, and he seemed like a nice guy. He’s a good writer, and knows his way around Texas political shenanigans. He wrote an article, and it’s a dandy, for The Nation Magazine this week. Only problem is: he embarrassed me like the time I got the back of my dress caught in my garter belt and flashed the entire congregation of the First United Methodist Church.
To be honest, it’s nice to be quoted with the likes of Paul Krugman and Bill Hobby. Moser quoted me and tried to nicely attributed the quote. I appreciate the effort, but everybody at my house is laughing at me today.
“Texas is setting a new standard by setting new lows,” says East Texas blogger Susan DuQuesnay Bankston.
I am not a blogger. It says that very clearly over there on the right. I can’t be a blogger because I got blackballed by the Texas Progressive Alliance Blogger’s Club. Seriously. No, seriously. They wouldn’t even tell me the secret handshake. I couldn’t attend their secret meetings, where they traded, oh, I dunno, secrets. One of them even publicly said, “She’s not a real blogger.” So, there ya go. I can’t be a blogger if I can’t get ordained.
No, seriously, they really blackballed me. It’s a damn hoot.
And then there’s that East Texas thing. I don’t live in East Texas. Not that there’s anything wrong with living in East Texas – some of the finest liberals in Texas history came out of the Piney Woods. Archer Fullingim, Bill Moyers, Ralph Yarborough, Wright Pattman, Charlie Wilson … all came from East Texas. But, East Texas has changed. If I lived in East Texas now, they would have strapped me to a tree nakkid, poured honey all over me and called the fire ants. Heck, they do that to moderates in East Texas.
I live near the Brazos River bottom, closer to the Gulf Coast than to East Texas. So, Bob, I don’t know what you can call me. “Queen” is already taken and so is “Lady Gaga.” I guess we’re gonna have to come up with something if I intend on continuing to be quotable, and I sure do.
Go read Bob’s story. It’s really good.
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Andrew Sullivan put this picture on his blog.
Juanita weighs in, “The rest of America is probably kinda stunned that our Governor is posing like he’s damn Saddam Hussein or something. But Texas is stunned that our Governor is wearing sissy French cuffs on his shirt. Unless those cuff links have that nakkid girl you see on mudflaps or at least six shooters on them, he’s lost some votes in West Texas.”
Thanks to Kewalo and Judy for the heads up.
