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Yes, we are still breaking bread at Stubb’s tonight.  After much thought, I decided:  (1) Democrats need fellowship with each other right now and (2) we need to celebrate the rule of law over violence.

I just have one other comment.

Sarah Palin – The Courage to Delete Her Convictions.

Yes, she has deleted all evidence of it off her website.

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Through the urging of a good friend, I set up a Twitter account in January of 2008 and made one twit.  Then I got distracted for three years.

Other friends are now urging me to twitter from the DeLay sentencing hearing.  I’m going to try because I can do that from my iPhone.  I’m going to try. That’s the only promise I’m making.

If you want to follow me, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why you’d want to because I have no clue how to do this thing and am highly liable to break the whole damn Twitter Machine, my Twitter name is Crabbait.  I know that most of y’all don’t Twitter either, but those who do might get the results first.

I will explain the Crabbait name thing sometime when I’m so inclined.

By the way, there promises to be some fireworks at the hearing.  A good read for Delay followers.

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I like bagels and cream cheese.  Especially the suspicious kind.

(Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.)

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At some point Texans are just gonna have to realize that the Republican Party has two ingredients:  smoke and mirrors.

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The Tom DeLay sentencing hearing will be on Monday, January 10, at 9:00 am in the 250th District Courtroom of the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe, Austin.  (That’s the old courthouse.)

I will update best I can with an iPhone and a dream.

And fair warning:  do not even think about breaking into my house that day because Marsha will be here.  You do not want to mess with Marsha.  Seriously.  She will break your butt and not even apologize.

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Yesterday, while Juanita was tied up (not in the good way) with some beauty shop business, our dandy delegation of Texas Republican congressvarmints continued to make headlines (not in the good way).

First off, as some customers noted below, there was Pistol Pete Sessions, a man noted for eating bullets for breakfast so he can shoot off his mouth the rest of the day.  It seems that Pete began conducting his duties prior the the constitutionally required oath of office.

Under the Constitution, which was read on the House floor Thursday, only sworn Members of Congress are allowed to conduct official business, but Sessions and Fitzpatrick have already voted eight times in the 112th Congress.

One smarty pants Democrat wondered if maybe the House should have read the Constitution aloud the day before so Sessions would have known that part.

Customer Alfredo asked, “Is he incompetent or just a moron?”  Juanita replied that Sessions is an efficient fuel-saving hybrid of both.

Then there was Louie Gohmert, Juanita personal favorite class clown from the deep east Texas piney woods.

“Louie got himself all grotesquely bent outta shape at Congressman Jesse Jackson’s suggestion that it might be vital to hear the “deleted” sections of the Constitution, to remind Americans of how some people were cut out of their democracy at times.  You know, like slaves, and women and Indians,” Juanita smiles.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) was unhappy with Jackson’s request, for one reason. “It’s important that we use the language of the Constitution,” said Gohmert. “These are not deletions. They are amendments. Too many have fought and died for the Constitution to call them deletions.”

“That’s not talking,” Juanita exclaims, “that’s just words.  In no particular order.”

“Plus, Louie can’t open his mouth without a little American flag popping out between his teeth and waving all around.  There was Jesse trying to be honest about this phony show of patriotism, and Louie accuses him of not caring about dead Americans at Normandy.  Cripes.”

“I just don’t get that the Tea Freaks keep talking about going back to the Founding Fathers but don’t want to use the words of the Founding Fathers,” Juanita muses.  “My only thought is that like Pete Sessions, they haven’t read it, and their listening skills ain’t all that wonderful either.”