I was outta pocket yesterday when Chip Roy up and blurted something weird, mean, and bigoted in the middle of a damn congressional hearing.

He said that there’s a common saying in Texas about a rope and a tall oak tree.  I’m a fifth generation Texan on my momma’s side and I have never heard that.

Chip Roy is from Maryland. He came to Texas as a adult and was the ghostwriter for George W’s book.  He also worked for John Cornyn, was First Assistant for Ken Paxton, and became Ted Cruz’s chief of staff.  So, I have no damn idea what manner of caca del toro he has heard while in Texas. A piano player in a whorehouse would have been subject to more proper and intelligent conversation.

I wish he’d just shut his mouth instead of repeating horrid crap he has heard in the back rooms he frequents.

Today he has doubled down.  He’s refusing to see the errors of his ways.  He also learned that from the men who never learned that.

The bottom line is that is not an “old saying” in Texas.  That is a new saying, brought to you by the highest levels of the Texas Republican Party.