Well, At Least East Texas Hasn’t Hit Bottom.
Just when you thought East Texas couldn’t possibly get any nuttier, you realize they are free falling in a hole so deep that you can hear people talking Chinese about half way down.
Resigning Smith County GOP Chairman
The Smith County (near Tyler) Republican County Chairman says the Republican Party ain’t near enough conservative for him so he’s resigning and joining up with the Tea Party. I do not know if they are forming a posse but I wouldn’t doubt it.
Now, I’m gonna remind you that Smith County is where Louie Gohmert and Steve Stockman hole up when they are not fighting each other for camera position on Fox News. Hell, Steve Stockman got stand-out crazy attention today and that probably hacked off Louie and so he’s got to out-crazy Steve and then if God doesn’t intervene it’s gonna be like poking a little hole in the crazy balloon and having it fly around backwards for days making funny noises. Oh wait, that’s already happened.
So if Steve Stockman and Louie Gohmert aren’t conservative enough for you, you gotta be wondering where Mussolini is when you really need him.
So y’all, if East Texas tries to secede from Texas and the United States of America, just let them. Just get the hell outta the way and barb wire the whole sucker off from civilized civilization.
Thanks to Barb in DC and Kathleen for the heads up.
Gee, but that’s where my cousins live.
1Dang, I went to college in east Texas………got out of there as fast as I could…..:).
2These guys are a huge embarrassment to the moderate Republicans. So much so that the moderates are now hiding under the same rocks these slime balls crawled out form under.
3So these guys are positioning themselves somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun?
We shouldn’t barb wire them off. With the money we save having East Texas out of the country we can build a lovely wall using immigrant labor. Those immigrants currently living in East Texas need to be sure they’re on the outside when they place the last brick.
Failing that I suppose we need to create some kind of Witless Protection Service to contain the damage.
4Witless Protection…good one, Lynn!!!!
We drive through those parts on the way to leave Texas money in the Shreveport casinos. I’m a little afraid to slow down much, but getting stopped there would be worse.
5Not all of us in East Texas lean that direction (did cow tipping start here as well??), but those of us who hold a different opionion tend to vote quietly and keep our heads down. These folks are definitely an embarrassment, but we sure seem to keep re-electing them or their cousin-brothers…
6Saddest thing about the Dana Milbank column you link to is his demonstration that Stockman, considered a way-out-there crazy in 1994, is back in Congress and considered pretty much GOP mainstream now… without having become any saner.
As another columnist put it (wish I’d saved the name), “The single most defining element of American politics over the last four years is that the Republican party has fallen out of the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
7I am big on the fact that God actually does allow U-turns and the scientific fact that most doors can swing both ways. I bring you Exhibit A: Bey Buchanan, Pat’s sister. She was raised very strict R. Catholic but found it wasn’t strict enough so she became a Mormon and married in that church. Eventually she left both husband and church. Either those two, the individual and the organization, were not strict enough for her or she had a sudden epiphany. Not sure yet. She kind of evaporated from sight when she used to be so much around on radio and TeeVee. One of these days one of those To the Right of Attila the Hun types are going to accidentally pick up a book and read it and then discover they have been exposed to William F. Buckley and his thoughts on conservatism. Whoooo-eeee! Talk about a lightening strike (apologies to St. Paul).
8Chris Matthews is pillorying Steve Stockman on Hard Ball tonight. It’s good to hear, but as he and guests commented, Stockman’s seat is safe because of redistricting. But vampires die in sunlight. We can hope.
9Speaking of vampires, this Ashton Oravetz fellow looks kinda vampiric–the blood-red lips, pale skin, hollow cheeks, etc.
Not the kind Sooky Stackhouse would friend up with, either.
He owns an “energy company” (wells? pipelines? electricity generating plant?) in/near Tyler.
And what the heck kind of a name is “Ashton Oravetz” anyway?
10glyn — The Witless Protection Program is, of course, designed to protect the rest of us from the witless.
I have to say it doesn’t seem to be working too well so far.
11Pray for me. I live here. And Mr. Oravetz has not gone away, just burrowed deeper into the extreme right group in Smith County. They adore folks like Gohmert, Cruz & Perry.
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