Texas has a congresscritter named Jeb Hensarling who got himself a case of the Big Britches and thought he could go on television, sit next to Paul Krugman, and not coming out looking that he’d spent the night in the dishwasher.

Ole Jeb believes the sky is falling and we’re going to have to start eating Lisa Lou’s fifth grade class’s goldfish to stay alive.

“There are people who can’t even find jobs in cities who are having to move out, according to press reports, into rural areas to subsistence agriculture. That could be our future.”

Every time Jeb opens his mouth, the Nat Geo gets a new episode of Doomsday Preppers.   For those who haven’t seen this show, it’s a cross between Hoarders and Extreme Couponing with a whole mess of heavy artillery mixed in.

Jeb tells people that every time they vote Democratic they might as well start tilling the ground and finding a cave to squat in.  Jeb seems unnaturally happy about these events.

Well, Dr. Krugman, who has a tad better handle on reality than Ole Jeb, speaks up.

“If you actually look, all that talk we just heard about, you know, deficits and China and Greece, which is all nonsense, but all that talk about how we need to deal with this and ask, what is the Republican Party currently proposing? What have they actually put on the table? They put down some numbers, but what specifics?”

And you wanna know Ole Jeb’s answer to that?   Well, it started out, “I’m rubber and you’re glue,” and then he went and spent the night in the dishwasher.

I know all you people from foreign states are cheering for Texas to secede.  I know that.  But if just our congressional delegation and the entire Bush family would secede, it’d help a whole lot.