Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas with vice presidential aspirations, has finally made a statement after the Odessa slaughter.

Greg agrees that thoughts and prayers aren’t enough.

He has a solution, my friends, and he took a strong and meaningful stand on it.

He says we should expedite executions for mass murderers.

No, I am not freekin’ kidding.

Following the second Texas mass shooting in a month, Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted on Monday night that Texas is “working on a legislative package” and that “expedited executions for mass murderers would be a nice addition.”

It’s unclear whether that legislation will wait until 2021 — the next time the Texas Legislature convenes — or if Abbott is considering calling a special legislative session.

Uh, and how many of them have been taken alive?  Good Lord, Governor, haven’t you noticed that we execute the vast majority of them on the damn spot?

And, “nice” is an odd word to use, don’t you think?  He didn’t say effective or meaningful or helpful.  He said nice. That’s just weird.

He’s just weird, y’all.

Please meet Louisiana Republican gubernatorial candidate and current congressman Ralph Abraham. He’s a medical doctor and a punk.

There’s a story this week showing the opioid blood on his hands.

Over the course of seven years, from 2006 to 2012, two pharmacies in rural northeast Louisiana, owned Ralph Abraham, Clinic Pharmacy of Mangham and Adams Clinic Pharmacy of Winnsboro, doled out 1,478,236 doses of powerful opioids, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration database recently published by the Washington Post.

The pharmacies are 12.5 miles away from one another, and the two communities have a combined population of approximately 6,000 people. Despite the surge in opioid prescriptions, the region’s population has actually decreased during the previous twenty years.

Couple this horror with Abraham’s strong stand against marijunana.

Again, as a physician, let me tell you. What I see in my practice, from any level of marijuana use, is bad,” Abraham stated. “I’m against recreational, I’m against medical. In the medical profession, for these chronic pain, poor cancer patients that need help, we have other alternatives that work better, Dilaudid, OxyContin, you name it, Oxycodone, we have several options that do a much better job for chronic pain.

Yeah, he doesn’t make a profit from marijunana.

He was buying all his opioid supply from one pharmacy, Morris and Dickson Co. – a family business also located in Louisiana.  Dickson is a big political donor in Louisiana. and was Abraham’s guest at the State of the Union.  You know, because scum attracts scum.

In May of this year, his [Dickson’s] company agreed to pay $22 million in civil penalties to settle charges it had violated the Controlled Substances Act.

Ralph Abraham has repeatedly expressed his opposition to lawsuits filed against opioid distributors and manufacturers, arguing that these pharmaceutical companies are merely meeting the market’s demand.

Y’all, it’s a long article but it’s stunning. I want to hold his head in a bowl of gumbo.  He’s a pusher, plain and simple.  And he’s a congressman who wants to be governor.

I would just like to say —

Justin Verlander pitched his 3rd no hitter last night.  And a big high-five to rookie Abraham Toro, who not only hit the winning two run homer, but also played third base like his name was on it.  It was only his 8th major league game and he was not scheduled to start until an hour before the game.

I will be at the game Thursday night to welcome the boys back to town.  I just love this game.

Why the hell are we paying this guy money to be a state rep. when all we need to do to fix things is pray.  I tell ya what – pay me his salary plus the cost of keeping him in the Lege and I’ll pray.

Matt Schaefer lives in East Texas and is pretty much in-training for Louie Gohmert’s job when Louie retires.

I know there’s a hurricane on the east coast, a horrible boat fire on the west coast, and a batcrap crazy guy in the White House but take a few minutes to celebrate those who made America strong …

Every weird and great news story starts with “Florida man …”

They are warning residents of Florida not to fire bullets into the hurricane because they will come back and … you know … kill your stooped butt.

No, I am not kidding.