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September 30, 2007

More Attention Whores In The News

Throwing cans of paint on innocent people wearing furs in soooo pre-9/11. What idiotic stunt will domestic terrorists PETA pull to screw up traffic in Austin on Monday? How about driving a truck-mounted billboard round and round and round and round the Erwin Center to protest Al Gore's visit?

You can't express concern for global warming if there's a drumstick in your mouth," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "Mr. Gore is ignoring a scientifically established fact: There's no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist because meat-eating is the main culprit."

Second on the list is hot air released by holier-than-thou fanatics.

---gasp--- I'm choking on the smug.

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Love me some War on Drugs...

Grits has the lowdown on the massive failure that is the War on Drugs. Despite the failure, the recommendation from the GAO is to keep doing the same thing. Over and over again. This is one of the best examples of politics trumping good decision making I've ever seen.

Haven't these people seen Groundhog Day?

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September 29, 2007

Cornyn Ally Puts Hometown Paper On Double Secret Probation

Vanity Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who joined with Texas Senator John Cornyn in voting against the SCHIP bill to increase medical coverage for sick and injured children, has apparently put his hometown newspaper on his personal blacklist. Blogs the Cleveland Plain Dealer's equivalent of Gardner Selby:

Kucinich has not returned calls for several weeks to the newspaper's Washington bureau, which covers his actions in Congress and his presidential campaign. As noted in Monday's newspaper, he uttered a string of non sequiturs -- albeit pleasant ones -- when a Plain Dealer reporter attempted to interview him outside the House of Representatives chamber.

His presidential campaign staff for weeks has not returned Plain Dealer calls and e-mail.

Natalie Laber, Kucinich's publicly paid spokeswoman in Congress, also has not returned phone calls and e-mail during this timeframe. That includes multiple inquries from reporters asking about Kucinich's votes in the House, his positions on congressional issues and matters unrelated to his presidential campaign.

Laber apparently has attempted to exclude Plain Dealer reporters another way, removing them from her list of media contacts who receive Kucinich news releases, news alerts, hearing schedules and notices of public appearances via e-mail. We use the word "apparently" here because we cannot confirm this from Laber. She won't return our calls and e-mail. But we know she sends them to others, as we have obtained bootleg copies. (Under normal circumstances, we might request them under the Freedom of Information Act, but Congress, perhaps anticipating the day that Kucinich would wish to shut out the press, exempted itself from the public records law.)

So far unreported in the dead tree media are other examples of Koo Koo's increasingly bizarre behavior. Print journalists are required to type their questions on narrow strips of paper and deliver them to the candidate's office baked inside of fortune cookies. And plans for an appearance on Meet The Press were scrapped when Tim Russert refused to sign an affidavit promising that he would not use the word "walnuts" at any point in the program.

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A Brief Plea

I don't care how aerodynamic your bike shorts are, get your fucking bicycle off of Mopac!

And now back to McBlogger's latest rant about toll roads...

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I love that Mitt Romney! He's the man for me!

Kay 'Margarita Madness' Granger has decided to support Mitt Romney. Which will go over well in North Texas which is majority Mormon.

Wait. No, it's not...

But after seeing Mr. Romney speak with business leaders a few weeks ago in Fort Worth, she realized he was the man for her, and she signed on as National Co-Chair of the Women for Mitt coalition.

Kay's a woman? No, she's a LADY. She should be National Co-Chair of the LADIES for Mitt coalition. Which makes me wonder, who is the other chair? Lindsay Lohan? Brittney (she does love our President)?

"I agreed with everything he said, in the order he said it," she said Tuesday morning at the Capitol -- first and foremost, fight the jihadists, and then focus on education and the economy.

Y'all will have to pardon Kay. For the last 6 years she's been under a rock or something while in Congress. Or maybe just on a really long bender. She doesn't realize that we've been 'fighting the jihadists' and ignoring everything else for the last 6 years. Well, at least up until January, 2007 when the Democrats finally took over and started getting as much done as they could with a bunch of obstinate Republicans in the way. Oh, and Kay... Where's Osama?

What Kay doesn't realize is that she's too stupid to actually fight the jihadists. They didn't read her book so they have no idea how fabulous America is. They did see her Killer Margarita recipe and used it. That's why, among all Americans, they hate Kay the most.

"When you put all the attributes together, Mitt Romney is the one I really think can serve us well, and really has a global perspective," Ms. Granger said, adding that she didn't want to merely add her name to an endorsement list. She wanted someone she wants to actively work hard to elect.

So watch for her in Iowa, New Hampshire and wherever else there are women voters in need of wooing. Which Kay will be doing in a smart looking skirt/blazer combo from some place sensible like Dillards. or Stein Mart. Let's just hope she doesn't try to woo them with those 'Killer Margaritas'.

It's pretty clear that Kay is angling for some kind of a post in what she (and she alone) thinks will be a Romney Administration. Here are some ideas:

Secretary of Noxious Cocktails

Commissioner on River Bottom Redevelopment

Deputy Secretary for Ritin' Buks

Presidential Fluffer

Seriously, Kay, Margaritas are tequila, lime and triple sec. It's really not hard to screw up. Which is what makes your ability to do so very perplexing. Either you have no taste receptors in your mouth or you're just really, really dumb.

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September 28, 2007

Tolls : Leadership and money... two things lacking

The Republicans on the Texas Transportation Commission (the folks who run TXDoT) are running around scaring the hell out of everyone by

1) Claiming that TXDoT is broke
2) Pushing to remove the moratorium on privatization which will allow them to sell our roads

You can read the entire piece at the DMN or at the SAEN. It's basically the same article. Though the DMN does decide to use TXDoT's now defunct $86 Bn transportation shortfall estimate. I guess no one told the reporter about the TTI report from last fall. It's the one Ric Williamson is terrified of because it neatly points out his lies.

Let's address point one, TXDoT is broke. Actually., at the moment TXDoT is funded adequately. It could, of course, do more with more money but at this moment in time things are still getting done. The reality is that as one moves forward in time, less and less of TXDoT's budget is going to go to actually building roads. We knew that already. Why the reporters for the DMN and the SAEN chose to report this as if it were a NEW story is beyond me.

What to do about this issue? How do we keep, or even expand, TXDoT's available funding? Well, there are a couple of ways... taxes and taxes. One is the indexed gas tax you already know and love. The other is privatizing our roads, selling them off to the highest bidder, and allowing them to toll them, another form of taxation. Traditionally, toll roads have been few and far between. However, in Ric Williamson's best case scenario, the entire state would be covered with them, not to mention existing freeways that would be converted to tolling. That means it's going to be broad based and will likely catch everyone. That means it's a tax, pure and simple. Only in this case, it's a tax paid to Ric Williamson's buddies, the private toll road companies like Cintra.

Think I'm lying? Central Texas is the blueprint for what TXDoT and the Republicans want to do statewide. Oh, there will be a free road you can take, but it won't be like 610 in Houston or Central in Dallas. It'll be a frontage road. With lights set to cause the greatest amount of impeded traffic flow and frustration. Seriously, folks are already doing reports on them.

The other alternative, indexing the gas tax, takes care of our maintenance woes as well as building new projects, without the adding cost of toll infrastructure. It also allows us to not worry about a private toll road operator's profits over the next 75 years. Ric Williamson, for his part, is worried about how regressive the gas tax is which is funny because it's THE ONLY TIME I'VE HEARD A REPUBLICAN WORRIED ABOUT THE REGRESSIVENESS OF A TAX. That aside, yes the gas tax is regressive. So is the sales tax. So are tolls. Whether you like it or not, without a real freeway alternative, a toll road will be the only limited access roadway that can be used by rich and poor alike. It should be obvious that since what Williamson has envisioned will cover the entire state and effect everyone, it too is a regressive tax on people.

Given that, would you rather them pay less that one cent per mile or 12 cents per mile? Seriously, Ric, I'd LOVE to hear your answer to that.

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Another R for CD 22?

Muse and Pink Dome have more on the man who would be Congressman. He's got some pretty impressive achievements under his belt like working on all kinds of crackpot bullshit. Like the weaponization of space. Which is a great idea... right up there with the War on Drugs. Here's my favorite pic...

The Candidate and Corpsyn. Seriously, you might want to pull this down.

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Student Loan Goodness - The Democrats start kicking some ass!

After screwing up student loans when they controlled Congress, the Republicans finally gave in to a Democratic plan to slash subsidies for private loan servicers and drop the interest rates on Government loans... as well as providing more money for Pell Grants. What does all this do? It makes college more affordable to more people.

Bush is, of course, pissy about having to sign it.

Nicely done, Democrats! And here's some video to help illustrate how this will help you. If you're a student. Which I'm not.

Now that this is out of the way, what's up with redesigning FHA and the Agencies? Give us mortgage lenders some love so we can start bailing people out of crappy subprime loans!

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S-CHIP passes, Bush to veto

The House and Senate have both passed S-CHIP, though not by a veto-proof majority in the House. Of course, Bush has already said he'd veto the legislation. Which is great. It made me think, what WOULD get the President to sign the bill?

How about we hand the program off to private insurers. We then double the premiums and instead of spending the extra $35 Bn the Democrats in Congress want to spend over the next 5 years, we spend $70 Bn and let the private insurers take the difference.

Would that work? Will insuring poor and middle class kids finally makes sense to Republicans if we provide some corporate welfare to private insurers who are so operationally inefficient that they can't turn a profit without help from Republicans in Government?

A notable no vote was from our own Senator Cornyn who is still voting in lock step with the President. Even Hairdo voted FOR affordable children's healthcare. We really want to know why the hell Cornytn would want to continue representing a deranged lunatic and NOT the people of Texas?

I want to get rid of this guy so bad... if you do to, help me. Send a buck or two to Rick and let's retire Junior John from the Senate.

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September 27, 2007

Noriega wins!

We're a little behind here, mostly because it's the end of month and I'm busy. I know, I know... it's a real pain when my real job competes with blogging.

The big news is that Noriega won the Democracy for Texas poll. By a WIDE margin, even counting some questionable votes for Mikal Watts.

We're a four days away from the end of the quarter and we need your help! Even a dollar will make a difference! Just in case you need a little motivation, click here...

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Clinton nails Republicans and getting rid of a weak sister

We need more Democrats like this in the Senate

And we really need to primary out idiots like this...

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I've got magazines coming out of every orifice

I subscribe to eight magazines that arrive monthly. Eight glossy (and occasionally matte) ways to eat up my time. And, because I'm the kind of idiot that keeps writing checks for periodicals, I'm also the kind of idiot who keeps getting 'special' offers for still MORE periodicals. It's a negative feedback loop.

Case in point...I open my box yesterday to find one from Texas Monthly. I don't like Texas Monthly. I think Burka is a MOTO and Evan Smith needs to do something about that goddamn grease slick he calls hair. Oh, sure, I love Our Lady of Texas Monthly Online (aka, Pink Lady) but it's not enough for me to pay even the deeply discounted subscription rate. If the article is good, I'll read it while I'm on line at Randalls. As for the ads? Details and Esquire are among the eight. I also get crap from Harold Powell and NM, mostly via email, all the time. Needless to say, I don't really need more fashion advertising.

Someone told me that all I needed to do to make the insanity stop is quit paying the bills. However, thanks to the lovely people at Hearst, I now know that is untrue. When you stop paying the bills, it just makes them send them in embarrassing pink envelopes. Which screams to everyone around you, 'I don't pay my bills!'

I hate magazines.

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Guiliani's Homeland Security Advisor wants to 'monitor' mosques

Great idea, Rep. King...

"Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country. There's too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam," King told Politico.com, urging greater scrutiny.

That's right, a member of Congress thinks we should start 'monitoring' places of worship in the US. Guiliani, for his part, threw gasoline onto the fire...

Giuliani backed King, saying, "What he means was that there are mosques in which violence is preached.

Yeah. We could think of some other places of worship where violence is preached. Will Rep. King and Rudy 911 next want to monitor them? Oh, of course not. That's just violence against The Gays.

What IS it with Rudy? First he's calling out MoveOn by saying 'they've gone too far', now he's talking about monitoring places of worship? Rudy, have you decided to just arbitrarily ignore the First Amendment?

This isn't a slippery slope, it's a fully greased metal slide. Way to be a real American, Rudy!

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September 26, 2007

Men are STUPID

I love my dry cleaner... they are convenient, friendly, consistent and while more expensive than others, they've made me a very happy customer. Until last week. That was when the guys came to work there.

For more than a year, there has been only one woman working the front. She's always been friendly and fast as hell. In and out in 90 seconds, even when I had to use a card to pay. That all changed with the her removal a week ago and the introduction of the three stooges. Seriously, there are now three idiot men working the front. They don't know how to use the credit card machine. The first day they were there, all three of them got involved with some woman whose dress had been ruined by the cleaner. Meanwhile, the six other people waiting to pickup/drop off got really irritated. Seriously, it takes three guys to deal with one ruined dress?

That day I was dropping up AND picking up. I quickly decided that dropping off probably wasn't a good bet. Jack Brown, here I come! actually crossed my mind. Which brings me to my point. Why are straight boys so fucking stupid?

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SCHIP, or Why I'm proud to be a Democrat

More than month ago, we talked about changes to S-CHIP. The bill has continued to move forward and Bush has threatened to veto it. To veto health care for kids. You might be asking why he'd do such a thing. Simple:

1) He doesn't care about the health of kids. He cares about the profits of private insurers who stand to lose if people finally discover that a government run health care system is a hell of a lot cheaper and more effective than that of the private sector due to one simple thing... less managerial overhead.

2) He's always gone with the most expensive option, the one that soaks taxpayers the most. Vetoing S-CHIP just creates another hole that taxpayers will have to fill.

In 2000, I left the Republican Party. I was never going to vote for Bush who I thought was an idiot and only looked good because of the hard work of Democrats in the Lege. It took me 2 more years and the invasion of Iraq to finally switch parties completely. The ridiculous tax cuts in 2001 actually did the trick on economic policy, but the rest of it came over the next couple of years.

I'd love to say that the Republican Party left me... it did in some ways, especially when it comes to the religiosity that's come to define modern Republicanism. The reality though is that the crazies didn't take over, they were always there and I refused to see them. As for the stance on economic policy, I finally realized that the Friedmanite bullshit being spouted by Ranroids was deeply flawed. That awakening began in 1996. It did take a while to finally settle in. Sometimes it takes people a while to realize that what they bought into was a load of crap. It always helps when it's the partner at the fund where your working who clues you in.

It's really the economics... only true believers would think that it's cheaper to spend money on emergency care than preventative care. True believers who are as dumb as a box of rocks, but true believers none the less.

Don't get me wrong, the Democrats frustrate the hell out of me at times with their weak messaging and occasionally self-aggrandizing behavior. However, I'm proud to be a member of a party that actually, on balance, tries to do the right thing.

I'm also proud so many others see this as a fight that needs to be won. This is where the Democrats need to take a stand and force this down Bush's throat. Check out BOR, EOW and BlueBloggin for more.

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September 25, 2007

Look! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a---thirty-second campaign spot!

So McBlogger and get word that the Bill Richardson campaign will have a major announcement at noon on Monday. What, he's dropping out already? Seriously, what other major announcement could there be? Turns out he was just rolling out a TV spot they're going to start running in New Hampshire... lucky, lucky Granite Staters!

Now, I have nothing against Bill Richardson. Apparently he's been a decent governor of New Mexico, and if he should win the presidential nomination I'm sure he'd give James Garfield a real run for the money. But seriously... a major campaign announcement? How excited will they be if campaign HQ ever gets a soda machine that takes dollar bills?

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Roundup time in the TPA...

You like the roundup? Well, frankly, so do I and not just because someone else compiles all the posts, codes them and send them out to me. I also love reading what all these amazing people have to say. But the not having to do any work part is real nice...

This week's installment is compiled by the amazing Vince from Capitol Annex.

It's about one thing. TXsharon at Bluedaze tells us why we have to make it about something else.

Bill Howell of StoutDemBlog, a new member of the Texas Progressive Alliance, takes a look at Kirk England's recent party switch as well as other recent party switches in Dallas County in Rove's Permanent Majority Collapses: Now What Do We Do With All These Defectors?

Boadicea at Texas Kaos wonders if MoveOn doesn't owe John Cornyn a thank you note.

Musings discovers that the lead GOP presidential contenders are too busy for Black and Latino sponsored debates, while the local Harris County GOP claim they are home to Hispanics because of their once a year bike give away.

Gary at Easter Lemming Liberal News has word on Mayor Manlove of Pasadena entering the race to challenge Lampson for Congress and the mayor's race it opens up He also has a short colorful digest of Naomi Klein promoting her book on Disaster Capitalism.

WCNews at Eye on Williamson posts on recent news that Gov. Perry and Speaker Craddick - who Krussee excoriated at the end of the legislative session--will appear at a fundraiser for him in Krusee Throws Reagan Over The Wall And Under The Bus.

Mayor McSleaze at McBlogger takes a look at some of the dumber things to come out of the right this week, like Bill O'Reilly's trip to a Harlem hot spot where he discovered that it was just like a 'real' restaurant, you know, like Olive Garden.

Off the Kuff looks at the causes and effects of Kirk England's party switch.

Refinish69 at Doing My Part For The Left looks at UT football and ask a simple question - UTLonghorns or UT Thugs.

Burnt Orange Report and its diarists are following the Kirk England switchover with enthusiasm. After breaking the story on Wednesday, the entirestaff, welcomes the newest Democrat to the House.

KT at Stop Cornyn shows how Junior Senator John Cornyn is wasting time again. Instead of getting funding for CHIP or getting our troops the armor they need, John Cornyn forced a vote condemning MoveOn.org. Yet another example of failed leadership and Junior John being out of touch with Texas needs.

Evan at the Caucus Blog covered two major stories this week. First, after months of investigation, discussion, and debate, the Houston GLBT Political Caucus has decided to endorse the HISD bond proposal. Second, Evan has looked into the history of the fight for a federal Employment Non-discrimination Act in the post "ENDA Deja Vu."

Bradley at North Texas Liberal discusses how Washington, D.C. almost had the vote, but lost it due to greedy Senate Republicans. Only eight Republicans could be bothered to vote for the legendary bill that would have allowed the District a voting member of Congress.

The marriage of the Republican party to theocracy is no accident. Right wing investors like Richard Mellon Scaife are molding US churches, notes CouldBeTrue at in "What does an El Paso Church have to do with the right wing" at South Texas Chisme.

It was quite a week for Senator Box Turtle; he led the Senate charge against free speech, voted against habeas corpus, and against adequate down time for our soldiers. As PDiddie at Brains and Eggs points out, he now owns the war on terror -- in addition to the war on the Constitution and all Americans. But he did unwittingly sponsor a successful fundraiser for MoveOn.org, so he wasn't a complete failure.

WhosPlayin joins a local Republican activist in opposing tax abatements for speculative real estate development in Lewisville.

Vince at Capitol Annex has been keeping tabs on the Texas Conservative Coalition and its town hall meetings across East Texas in which they propose to eliminate property taxes in favor of an expanded sales tax, and points out that at least one new candidate has already started drinking their Kool-Aid.

Hal at Half Empty was at a campaign kickoff fundraiser for Ron Reynolds who is running for State Rep in HD 27. He took videos and did a series. Links to the series is at his summary posting: Ron E. Reynolds is Running for State
Rep in HD 27.

Blue 19th notes that Randy Neugebauer can't hide his contempt for veterans from everyone. So which party was it that supported our troops? Oh yeah, the one that doesn't start with "Republican".

No? No! Yes? Yes! Texas Cloverleaf reports on Trinity Vote Trickery Confusing ballot language and campaign slogans cloud the upcoming Trinity Toll Road vote in Dallas.

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Brownback and Ahmadinejad : A match made in heaven?

Sen. Brownback (R-Asshat) tried to pimp an Anti-Gay 'Marriage Amendment' while speaking to New Hampshire voters. Apparently, those in the Granite State didn't like his gay bashing rhetoric, so they booed him. Think Progress has the transcript and the video...

In related news, the Iranian President yesterday said that there were no gay people in Iran. Dungeon Diary points out that it's probably because the Iranian religious police have killed a bunch and the ones that remain are obviously in hiding. Given this bit of news, it makes me wonder if maybe the gay-free paradise Brownback and his cohorts have been trying to create already exists... in Iran.

Maybe they should go there for a bit and see a country where gays are so scared that they stay in the closet. They can enjoy the basketcase economy, the drab fashion and the lack of intellectual freedom. Maybe then they'll realize that The Gays aren't really that big a threat.

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You don't know me...

Just a note to some of our readers... Over the last couple of weeks I've received emails from readers taking me to task for referring to myself as an asshole, among other things. Just to let y'all know, I don't have a self-esteem problem. Truly, I'm very confident in (and comfortable with) who I am. Occasionally, I'll make self-deprecating comments because I'm really a dork. We all are. Seriously, everyone does about 20 stupid things a day and I do about 25. And when I catch myself doing something retarded, I laugh at myself... BECAUSE IT'S FUNNY. If I don't laugh at myself when I trip and fall down,for example, then how can I laugh at someone when they trip and fall down?

Which brings me to my final point. When I refer to myself as an asshole in real life, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't hide behind the blog and that I am, in fact, much nicer here than out there. Just ask The Mayor... I can be way unpleasant in the real world.

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What a Jerk!

Hey Ghouliani! Don't ya no it's simple common courtesy to silence your frikkin' cellphone when you're in a public meeting? (Especially when in a room full of gun nuts?)

I'll bet this dope wipes his nose on his sleeve.

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September 24, 2007

November is the test?!?!

From EOW comes word that our new and expensive voter registration system has issues. BIG ISSUES.

Wilson said an August stress test of the system went reasonably well, though if things don’t go swimmingly in the elections, two contractors responsible for the system will face “serious consequences.”

“It needs to work,” he said. “November will be the real test.”

Serious consequences? Oh, come on Phil. Like you guys are going to anything to them should the system fail.

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More proof we're effecting the climate

Accuweather has a good piece up on the findings of a new report out of LLNL...

A recent study from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California states that observations and climate model results confirm that human-induced warming of the planet is having a pronounced effect on the atmosphere's total moisture content.

More moisture creates a feedback loop which increases heat and drives more and more powerful storm systems. That's almost easy enough for the mongo in the White House to understand.

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Edwards and the SEIU

I'm posting the video to his speech in the supersize and David Mizner at MyDD has this update

The news generated by Edwards has been consistently good of late. Not earth-shattering, not race-changing, just good. His sharp populist message is breaking into the dominant media narrative, and he's challenging Clinton, making Obama seem suddenly less relevant.

Last week Obama was supposed to recapture his antiwar cred, but his "major policy address" fell flat. He couldn't even bring himself to support a timeline for withdrawal (a position he'd already taken!) Meanwhile Edwards bought time on MSNBC to rebut Bush's address on Iraq, stealing the week from Obama in terms of antiwar cred. The expensive, risky move brought Edwards good coverage. For example, he was included in a discussion on Larry King from which he otherwise would have been excluded. And what a discussion it was. For months we Edwards supporters have argued that the strength and clarity of his positions would produce political benefits. The Atlantic's James Fallows--who usually focuses on policy instead of politics--was taken aback as he saw the candidates anew.

Of the three Democratic responses to the president in this hour on CNN -- Jack Reed, Barack Obama, plus Edwards -- Edwards was by a mile the most impressive. To apply the Man from Mars perspective: if you'd heard of none of these politicians before, based on this sequence you'd immediately assume that Edwards was the dominant one from either party (including the actual president).

Reed was fine, and it's always good to have a West Point grad and former Army officer in this role. But he was long on "we Democrats will offer a plan" as opposed to very crisp arguments about what was wrong with the Bush plan.

Those crisp arguments were all, and only, what Edwards presented. I don't have a transcript, but the gist was: we're patrolling a civil war, nothing matters without political progress, and that's not happening; it's shameful to keep making the link to 9/11 that does not exist, etc. Compared with the last time I'd seen Edwards handling foreign policy questions on live TV, he has come a very long way in knowledgeability and confidence..

From Obama, the opposite surprise: when did he start sounding like a Senator? So many vagued-up sentences and so little pith?

Then this weekend the candidates went to Iowa for the Harkin Steakfry, which is a test of organization first and intensity of support second. By all accounts, no candidate had more supporters there than Edwards, and anyone who watched it on TV knows his supporters were the most vocal. Newsweek's Howard Fineman said he won the day. Don't get me wrong: I don't trust Fineman (although as mainstream jounalists go, he's pretty sharp.) But it's significant that the mainstream press, which has long treated this is as a two-person race, is waking up to discover a "convincing man of the people populist" with surprising "polish."

Like Fallows, Fineman was surprised to discover how unimpressive Obama was. Indeed, sitting at home in my living room, I saw few sparks. Iowa has always presented a challenge for Obama, and he seems not to be taking the necessary steps to mitigate his weaknesses there. For example, this week he's skipping the AARP forum in Davenport--a strange decision for someone lagging behind among seniors. And he's yet to present a comprehensive plan to fight rural poverty. At this relatively late date his support remains concentrated in cities and college towns--a recipe for a poor finish in a contest that rewards well-distributed support. Let me be the first to say what's on the tip of conventional opinion's tongue: Obama's in trouble in Iowa.

That's perhaps why Edwards seems more concerned with Clinton. Yesteday she planned to dominate the day with the release of her health care plan (a good plan for which the country should thank Edwards.) But Edwards crashed the picnic by announcing that on his first day in office he would present a bill that would take away the health insurance of Congresspeople unless they passed universal coverage. This confounded elitists and other non-populists. David Brooks said Edwards was shrill, and Obama supporters over at Kos were besides themselves, citing an amendment to the constitution (one that most of them had never heard of till that morning) in a desperate attempt to blunt the political force of Edwards's move. What Edwards was doing was good old-fashioned brassknucke politics--something Obama and his supporters neither understand nor like.

In the afternoon came the candidates' speeches to the SEIU, a powerful, politically active union, the only one that might endorse Obama. And after Obama thrilled the crowd with his speech (let's face it, the guy can bring it, occasionally), it seemed as if he might have stolen the endorsement away from Edwards. Then reality set in. Edwards rocked the house himself, and some actual reporting found that the passion for Edwards among the service workers is deep. Either Edwards gets SEIU or no one does.

Finally, today the Edwards campaign went after Hillary Clinton for--well, for being Hillary Clinton, a corporate Dem to the core. I'll let Joe Trippi tell you the bad news:

If you want to know why we need change in Washington - and I mean real change, not just trading corporate Republican insiders with corporate Democratic insiders - then just look at Senator Clinton's schedule for today. Today at noon, Hillary Clinton will be hosting a fundraiser in Washington, DC for a select group of lobbyists with an interest in homeland security.

Tickets for the Clinton fundraiser are $1,000 a ticket and $25,000 per bundler. And for that money you get more than a meal - you get to attend one-hour breakout sessions in four different areas of homeland security that will include House Committee Chairs and members of Congress who sit on the very committees that will be voting on homeland security legislation.

Today's Clinton fundraising event is a "poster child" for what is wrong with Washington and what should never happen again with a candidate running for the highest office in the land.

That no one in the Clinton campaign - including the candidate - found anything wrong with holding this fundraiser is an indication of just how bad things have gotten in Washington - because there isn't an American outside of Washington who would not be sickened by it.

Just last month, John Edwards asked Senator Clinton to join him in taking the Democratic Party on the first step towards real reform - to become the first party to refuse and reject the money of Washington lobbyists.

But one of the nice things about being an establishment pol like Clinton is that when populists criticize you, an establishment journalist like Ben Smith comes to your aid. Here Smith, who's clearly in awe of Clinton's political skills, "tsk-tsks" Edwards for going negative, calls him "angry," and claims without evidence that this is a gift to Hillary. Never mind assessing the substance of the charge. And feel free to ignore the polls suggesting that this is a huge vulnerability for Hillary. Just keep on doing her bidding, BS. Maybe she'll give you an interview if and when you help her get elected. You're so far up the establishment's ass you can't see daylight, much less the truth.

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Because Road Rage Wasn't Enough

Sister Ruth has informed us that, upset at having to share the road with all you inconsiderate assholes who insist on taking up space on Mopac, she has now downloaded John Dean's latest book to her iPod and is listening to it during her daily commute. Let's just say it's not helping her mood.

Be careful out there, Austin.

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September 23, 2007

You foul minions of Lucifer

Amos 8:4-7

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
and destroy the poor of the land!
“When will the new moon be over,” you ask,
“that we may sell our grain,
and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?
We will diminish the ephah,
add to the shekel,
and fix our scales for cheating!
We will buy the lowly for silver,
and the poor for a pair of sandals;
even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!”
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Never will I forget a thing they have done!

Huh, what dear? I'm on the wrong blog? This isn't townhall?

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The Week in Stupid

If any extraterrestrials searching for intelligent life aimed their antennas in our direction last week, chances are they didn't find much of interest radiating from this primitive planet. Consider:

President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein killed Nelson Mandela. White House press secretary Dana Perino later explained that The Decider had been briefly distracted by a shiny object and had actually meant to relate an anecdote about the time Dick Cheney killed Bambi.

Then there were spundit Bill O'Reilly's comments after he had lunch at a restaurant in Harlem and discovered that African-Americans were Just. Like. Us.

I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship.

It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all.

My only regret is that Billo's basis of comparison was the Olive Garden and not Denny's, so I could observe that one difference was that people of all races were actually getting table service... I guess I managed anyway.

But the Outstanding Disachievement Award goes to Sherri Shepherd, a new co-host on "The View", who expressed doubts that the World is round. Actually, I think I can explain this. You may remember a few weeks ago when Miss Teenage Flyover State blamed Americans' poor knowledge of geography on things such as, many Americans don't have maps because they've been sent to places, such as, Iraq and South Africa, such as. Ms Shepherd obviously is one of those Americans lucky enough to have hung on to a map. Sadly, maps are flat and how are we supposed to expect a mere television personality to understand the difference between reality and a representation of reality? LEAVE HER ALONE! You're lucky she's even on your TV!

Could someone please give her a globe before she announces her presidential exploratory committee?

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September 22, 2007

Mister Woodcock

Heh heh heh heh heh he said woodcock heh hehe heh heh hee

Seriously, no matter how many funny lines you have (and this flick has plenty) Oedipus Rex really doesn't work as a comedy.

Good thing the theatre was almost empty. I'd hate to think that next summer we'd be treated to Sleepless in Sparta.

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SD 10 : Candidates galore

A little over a month ago, Todd Hill at BOR posted on the candidates possibly considering a race for SD 10. This has become an important race because it's winnable (the Republican incumbent is Brimer. Seriously, running against him is like running against a pile of nuclear waste) and, as Fort Worth begins it's demographic shift, it's holdable.

Here are the canidates we've heard of so far.

Of course, it's still early and I'm sure we'll hear more in endless candidate forums and tedious press hits. However, this is appears to be how things stand now...anyone with some more information in North Texas care to chime in?

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September 21, 2007

Do this, Chris Bell...

Gardner Selby (whose new picture on the Schlockman website is a marked improvement) wrote an interesting article about some polling being done... for the 2010 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary. I know! I was totally thinking about that just the other day since thinking about the 2008 election is already old hat. The Mayor is LIGHT YEARS ahead of us, though... he's focusing on the 2068 Presidential election that will be between the disembodied head (in a jar) of Steven Cojocaru and Donny, a thinking machine. The great-great-grandchildren of Ralph Nader will also run their chihuahua, Fredo.

The future totally sounds cool, doesn't it? I know, you'd like to hear more about it. However, that's not going to happen. The Mayor would tell you more but honestly, you wouldn't understand. It's because you're stupid.

Back to Gardner and the race for the the manse in 2010, the Democratic Primary field (at least, for this poll) includes Kinky Friedman who I predict will have been killed by those derelict animals he has on his place in the Hill Country. That narrows it down to...


Chris Bell at 22%
Tony Sanchez at 15%
John Sharp at 13%
Bill White at 12%


Tony Sanchez? He's not even a Democrat any more, is he? The name that did catch my eye was Chris Bell. As a commenter at BOR noted, why not run for Supreme Court? Everyone knows he's more qualified that any of the Republicans currently sitting on the Court. His name recognition is good thanks to the run last year and his name is synonymous with ethics, something the Texas Supreme Court could use.

Come on, Chris! We need you!

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Excellent job, Congressman Doggett

Couldn't agree more...

The President's surge is as successful as the President's boast to capture Osama bin Laden 'dead or alive.'

Now Congress must respond to the President's propaganda surge with a truth surge, with a memory surge that reminds America of repeated false cries of progress and phony excuses that have only brought our families more insecurity. Congress must learn from the courage of our troops. Appeasement will not stop this wrongheaded administration policy. More blank checks will only drain our national treasury while fueling more death and destruction that only endangers our families.

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Jokes of My Father's : Three in a day...none political

Frankly, I'm stunned... three jokes in a day from my dad. All of them at least moderately amusing and none of them political...

I rear ended a car this morning... The driver got out of the other car, and he was a dwarf!! He looked up at me and said "I am NOT Happy!"

So I said... "Well, which one ARE you then?"
That's how the fight started...

A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other of the afterlife. Their biggest fear was that there was no afterlife.

After a long life together, the husband was the first to die. True to his word he made contact, "Connie....Connie. ."
"Is that you, Joe?"
"Yes, I've come back like we agreed."
"That's wonderful! What's it like?"
"Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast and then it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe in the warm sun and then have sex a couple of more times. Then I have lunch (you'd be proud - lots of greens) another romp around the golf course, then pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's back to golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I catch some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over again."

"Oh, Joe you surely must be in Heaven!"
"Not exactly... I'm a rabbit on a golf course in Arizona

As a young minister, I was asked by a funeral director

to hold a grave-side service for a homeless man, with

no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a

cemetery way back in the country, and this man would be

the first to be laid to rest there.

As I was not familiar with the backwoods area, I

became lost; and did not stop for directions. I finally

arrived an hour late. I saw the backhoe and the crew,

who was eating lunch, but the hearse was nowhere in sight.

I apologized to the workers for my tardiness, and

stepped to the side of the open grave, where I saw the

vault lid already in place. I assured the workers I

would not hold them up for long, but this was the

proper thing to do. The workers gathered around, still

eating their lunch. I poured out my heart and soul.

As I preached the workers began to say "Amen," "Praise!

the Lord," and "Glory!" I preached, and I preached,

like I'd never preached before: from Genesis all the

way to Revelations.

I closed the lengthy service with a prayer and walked

to my car. As I was opening the door and taking off my

coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another,

"I ain't never seen anything like that before and I've

been putting in septic tanks for over twenty years!"

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Integrity

Yesterday, the United States Senate voted for a resolution condemning an American political organization for exercising it's First Amendment right to free speech. A resolution put forward by a man who has so thoroughly abrogated his oath of office that he's called The President's Senator. A man who can't be bothered to send our troops to war properly equipped and armored. A man who won't even let them have a leave they desperately deserve before asking them to return to the middle of a civil war.

The Constitution either means something or it doesn't. You don't get to condemn people for exercising their rights, even if you disagree with what they have to say. The 72 men and women who voted to condemn the MoveOn.org ad violated their oath of office. Further, they rose in support of a liar, a man who has become a political operative of this Administration. They condemned an organization for telling the truth. Where is the integrity we expect from our leaders? Does it always dissolve when it becomes politically expedient?

This is shouldn't be a political issue. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, if you voted for this political stunt you deserve even less respect than the man who stood up and lied about Anbar. A man who is, himself, playing politics while betraying the men and women under his command. Worse, he's betraying his fellow Americans. People like you and me. I can separate my criticism of him from my feelings for the troops. The American people can as well. Why can't Congress?

And I will NEVER accept even a scintilla of criticism from someone like George W. Bush, a man who abuses our armed forces while hiding behind them for political gain. A man whose political party made fun of a wounded vet by wearing band-aids with purple hearts on them. A man who led his party in DEMONIZING a quadriplegic Vietnam Vet. Not from him. Not ever.

Support MoveOn.org here.

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Friday fun

Condi admits it...

The Devil does my hair!

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September 20, 2007

Economy : The good, the bad and how the hell to fix the mess

First off, the Fed's move... a couple of different reads as to what may have prompted it:

1) That stagflation is a real possibility as the credit freeze continued, coupled with asset deflation, non-existent wage growth and our old friend commodity price inflation. The perfect prescription for an economic malaise.

2) That the commercial paper market was already stagnant and the prospect of it fully unwinding into a period of non-activity scared the shit out of the Fed. Honestly, this scared the shit out of me as well.

3) A combination of the two... or something even worse.

Regardless, this was a big move and may have been prompted by the fact that the Fed's actions to date haven't had the impact they should. As to inflation and the effects on the dollar, I don't think it's as big an issue now as it might have been. We've seen several trillion dollars in asset values evaporate with the deterioration in the housing market. Further, the dollar has been weak based on economic uncertainty in the US. That's, to a limited extent, been eliminated.

What happens next? Krugman has a good piece on the stupidity of supply-side economic policies promoted by idiots in the Republican Party (who are, coincidentally, traveling around the state talking about massive increases in the sales tax. Why is it that stupid, unsuccessful people always claim to know so much about the economy?) even today. He points out that wage growth has got to occur, broadly, for real economic growth AND an increase in the savings rate. We couldn't agree more. The best part is that someone from the Reagan Administration has finally come to terms with this as well...

The jobs data and the absence of growth in real income for most of the population are inconsistent with reports of US GDP and productivity growth. Economists take for granted that the work force is paid in keeping with its productivity. A rise in productivity thus translates into a rise in real incomes of workers. Yet, we have had years of reported strong productivity growth but stagnant or declining household incomes. And somehow the GDP is rising, but not the incomes of the work force.

Oh, and lest we forget, now Alan Greenspan doesn't like the tax cuts. In fairness to him, he talked about this in 2004 and 2005... but none of the Republicans listened to him.

Greenspan accuses the Republicans who presided over the party's majority in the House until last year of being too eager to tolerate excessive federal spending in exchange for political opportunity. The Republicans, he says, deserved to lose control of the Senate and House in last year's elections. "The Republicans in Congress lost their way," Greenspan writes. "They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither."

We can't go on this way. Lest you think this just a bunch of rhetoric from a Democratic activist, I'm a wholesale banker. I'm a died in the wool capitalist who knows that neither capitalism nor democracy can survive when wealth begins to concentrate in outrageous amounts at the top.

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Beat 'em up, Dan!

Dan Rather, late of CBS News, has decided to sue his former employers (CBS and parent VIACOM) for wrongful termination over the Bush National Guard story that ran on 60 Minutes prior to the 2004 election.

In an extraordinary move that reflects the depth of his resentment toward his former network, Dan Rather sued CBS yesterday, charging that he was made a "scapegoat" for a discredited 2004 story about President Bush's National Guard record because CBS wanted to "pacify the White House."

CBS management "coerced" the veteran news anchor "into publicly apologizing and taking personal blame for alleged journalistic errors in the broadcast," says the $70 million suit, which also names Sumner Redstone, chief executive of the network's then-parent company, Viacom; CBS Chairman Les Moonves; and former CBS News president Andrew Heyward.

The story happened to be true but with the White House squeeling like bitches, CBS asked Rather to leave. Rather, to his credit, left without much of a fuss. CBS replaced him with Katie Couric. For that, I'd LOVE to sue them as well. Unfortunately, that's not going to be possible, according to Harry, because we don't have a 'cause of action' or some such bullshit legalese.

Go for the gold, DAN! Pull some money out of Sumner's decaying hand!

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Bush Press Conference

Right now, Bush is talking about being a 'supply-sider' who thinks that cutting taxes will increase revenues, despite the fact that ALL EVIDENCE IS CONTRARY TO THIS BELIEF.

Bush is once again talking about SS/Medicare-Medicaid reform. Please. He says that he and Alan Greenspan used to talk endlessly about it. I think those convo's went something like this...

GWB: Alan, d'ya think we can cut taxes and increase revenues?
AG: Mr. President, please don't call me by my first name.
GWB: Well, gee, Alan, I thought we was friends?
AG: No. We're not. I have to work with you. At best, we're cube mates. If the secret service weren't protecting you...
GWB: What's that?
AG: Nothing...
GWB: What about social 'scurity?
AG: What about it?
GWB: We should cut taxes and benefits to save it, shouldn't we?
AG: (under breath) I could go down to LaFayette Park and have someone kill me right now...
GWB: What d'ya say?
AG: Just thinking about retirement.
GWB: Yeah, you're pretty old.
AG: Yes. Quite the Master of the Obvious you've turned out to be.

Yeah, George, I totally believe you had long chats with Chairman Greenspan. Sure. The thrust of this seems to be that the Democrats are going to raise taxes on workin' folk (a lie) and that S-CHIP is going to be expanded to wealthy families (another lie). OJ Simpson on the witness stand lies less than this guy.

Bush says this is about private vs. government health insurance. He's trying to give you the right to get screwed over by a private insurer just like the rest of us. Is it any wonder why everyone who can sign their kids up for CHIP does, happily, sign their kids up for CHIP?

He's going to veto S-CHIP. It's gone. Now the question is, will the Democrats be able to override. If there are any Republicans who are thinking about sustaining the veto, take a long look around you. You won't be back in January, 2009 if you vote with your President.

Last thing... he made some snide comment about MoveOn's Petraeus ad. He talked about Democrats being more afraid of MoveOn than they are of offending the US military. What the President doesn't understand is that the Chickenshit is now a political appointee charged with selling us on Bush's failed Iraq War.

Bush dares to lecture us about being mean to Petraeus when he's willing to kick kids off health insurance? One hell of a President we have here. The only thing I don't understand is how everyone in Washington could so completely miss the fact that the rest of the country HATES this guy. Even in Texas we're 50/50 and that's in an easy, slanted poll.

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You first...

I'm all the time saying that it's high time the herd thinned out a bit. Seriously, there are just too many people around these days, most of whom seem hell bent on getting in front of me on MoPac.

Misanthropic? You don't know the half of it. In fact, Pink Lady pointed me to these people last week and I'm thinking they have the right idea. For you. Oh, OK... I'll do it, too. But you go first.

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Way to support the troops, Zombie Breath!

McBlogger reminded me of this item on HuffPo.

The Huffington Post has learned that Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, will introduce a sense of the Senate resolution Thursday criticizing MoveOn.org's recent advertisement in the New York Times. The ad called into question the credibility of Lt. General David Petraeus, suggesting the pseudonym "Betray Us."

Cornyn's amendment proclaims that the general "deserves the full support of the Senate." The MoveOn advertisement, Cornyn's legislation states, not only "impugns the honor and integrity of General Petraeus," but "all the members of the United State Armed forces."

Perhaps in hopes of gaining support for his amendment, Cornyn's measure would also "reaffirm support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces."

On Wednesday, Cornyn showed his support for the troops by voting to sustain a GOP filibuster of the Webb Amendment, which would have required combat soldiers to receive equal time Stateside in between combat tours in Bush's War. "Too much luxury for our fighting men and women!" sez the Endless War Caucus. "And we don't have enough troops so we'd either have to bring back the draft or withdraw!"

Dear, dear. Why make those hard choices when you can send the same troops back over and over again, systematically wrecking the Army in the process?

For someone who is so concerned about the honor and integrity of a single general, I'm amazed that Cornyn has never introduced a bill condemning the delegates to the 2004 Republican National Convention who thought it cute to adorn themselves in Purple Heart bandaids, as modeled by this doughy fuck:

Strange, isn't it, that human garbage like John Cornyn and the rest of his despicable cohort can get so angered about word play on the name of a general, but when it comes to actual soldiers being hit by actual flying bits of metal, war is just a fucking joke.

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September 19, 2007

Right Wing Hypocritical Horseshit

You may have noticed that rightwingers in general are a bunch of angry mofos. The latest thing that's given them the vapors is an ad run by the liberal political group MoveOn.org.

How awful of those nasty liberals to pun on their cuddly general's name! Democrats simply must damn MoveOn to hell or be exposed as the troop-hating terrorist sympathisers all good viewers of Fox News already know they are!

Frankly, I thought MoveOn's name calling was pretty childish, something I'd expect from a sixth grader. MoveOn would have been better advised to tag Petraous with what his boss, CENTCOM Commander Admiral William Fallon, calls him: an ass-kissing little chickenshit.

There was a time when generalship involved waging and winning wars. Petraous, on the other hand, is on a marketing tour touting an extremely defective product, George W Bush's War, a war where that virtually everyone recognizes is an unwinnable disaster, and a strategy that consists of leaving the mess as a housewarming gift for Hillary Clinton when she arrives in January, 2009.

Succesful generals get to run for President. Ass-kissing chickenshits get to pretend that things are getting better in Iraq at the same time that American civilians in Iraq are being restricted to the Green Zone in Baghdad.

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HD 106 Flips...and and urgent plea to Harper-Brown and Nelson

BOR, FWST and DMN are all reporting that Rep. Kirk England, who first won a seat in the Texas House during a special election in March, 2006, has made the decision to run for re-election as a Democrat.

State Rep. Kirk England of Grand Prairie is switching to the Democratic Party, the first such switch by a Texas legislator in decades.

England, the son of longtime Republican and Grand Prairie Mayor Charles England, first won the seat representing District 106 in a special election in March 2006, after the retirement of state Rep. Ray Allen. The district includes most of Grand Prairie and south Irving.

"After one session in the House, I found that the Republican leadership in Austin had no tolerance for the values and priorities of the folks I represent," England said in a statement released Wednesday. "That is why [Thursday] at 10 a.m., I will announce my intention to seek re-election to the Texas House as a Democrat."

Theresa Huchingson, a spokeswoman for England, said England would explain his decision in greater detail at the news conference.

Other reasons given for the switch included CradDICK's horrendous halitosis and the constant threat of being consumed in a snacking frenzy by either Linda Harper-Brown or Jane Nelson. Which reminds me...

Dear Jane and Linda,

We think you should both lose weight. We're thinking if you do you'll have sex again and then you'll stop worrying so much about all the gays having sex. Oh and do something about that goddamn hair. BOTH OF YOU. Granted, this will be a mixed blessing since you'll live longer, too. But as long as that gets you to stop thinking about hot man on man action, we'll be OK with it. Just stay out of our way on MoPac.

XXXOOO

McB

Sorry about that... it's needed to be said for a while.

Welcome to the party, Kirk! Trust us... it's a hell of lot better inside the big tent!

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A modest proposal...

I've had a particularly trying day, mostly due to people who were insufferably dumb. I came to the conclusion earlier this evening that Congress should pass a tax on stupid people that amounts to 110% of their income.

I'm serious. I want to see how many of them pay it.

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Carrie Underwood... Demon.

(Harry Balczak, our legal correspondent, attorney of record and HR administrator, sent this to me a short time ago since he can't post it. Something about a last minute trip to Bolivia...or Idaho. I can't remember...)

Apparently, Carrie Underwood has been a bad girl. So says a suit filed by a prisoner in the Federal Pen in South Carolina. Here's the suit itself which claims, among other things that Underwood:

1) Had the Plaintiff's larynx stolen
2) 'Picks on' blind employees of Wal Mart Stores, Inc.
3) Is regularly corresponding with Andrea Yates
4) Is friends with Mayor McSleaze's buddy, Cindy Sheehan
5) Threatens him daily with bodily harm to be inflicted by Tony Romo, cowbo