Okay, remember the new Texas Secretary of State who screwed up voter registration in Texas and announced that 95,000 potential noncitizens had registered to vote in violation of state law?  And the rightwing and Donald Trump were dancing around and drooling and local voter registrars were going to the expense of sending out letters to these people making them come into the office to prove they were citizens?

Remember that?

Well, the same thing happened to him that happens to every Republican who makes enormous mistakes that vilify people and waste taxpayer money: He got a 49% pay raise.

Yeah, he was in office less than five weeks, screwed everything up, and Governor Abbott rewarded him.

The day after David Whitley took office as Texas secretary of state on Dec. 17, he received a 49 percent pay raise thanks to his friend and political patron, Gov. Greg Abbott.

In a Dec. 18 letter to the Legislative Budget Board, the governor’s chief of staff said Abbott was using his authority to immediately raise Whitley’s annual salary to $197,415.

That’s almost $64,500 more than the $132,924 paid to Rolando Pablos, the Abbott appointee who was secretary of state before Whitley.

He’s a close friend and former chief of staff to Governor Abbott so he deserves it no matter how incompetent he is.

All the best people, all the best people.

If you’ve never heard of Pete Olson, it’s because he is called “furniture.”  That’s because it is hard to distinguish between him and the hall tree.

Come to find out that Pete just completely forgot to put one of his contributions on his 48 hour before election contribution report.

I can’t imagine Pete not wanting us to know everybody who gave him money before election day.

Click the little one to see the big one.

Oddly enough, there is no one by that name registered to vote in Texas.  But, there is a guy living here who has a Florida corporation.

I’m just real sure that Pete, who loves Jesus so much, would not lie about who is giving him money.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.  

El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are all subject to cuts in foreign aid under Donald Trump.

Fox reports.  You decide.

As my friend Deb T explains …

Well, it IS Latin America, so there are *six* Mexicos:

Mexico
Mexicas
Mexicat
Mexicamus
Mexicatis
Mexicant

The real question is, of course, which Mexico will pay for the Wall? On the bright side, this means only ONE of the Mexicos refused to pay for The Wall. Donnie should now ask the OTHER TWO Mexicos to pay. (SCREAMS INTO A PILLOW, pounds head against wall!)

On the other hand, he could mean, Mexico, New Mexico and … uh … Rosa’s Taco Hut.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

In case you missed it, like I did, there was a visitor to the confirmation hearing of U.S. Interior secretary, David Bernhardt.

Look over his right shoulder.  There’s a damn swamp creature.

The cops, seen on the right side of the picture, are conferring about what to do.  They never did figure it out.

Who says that $12.99 can’t buy happiness?

Thanks to megasoid for the heads up.