What’s the most urgent problem facing Texas? Rick Perry declares that’s it’s voter fraud so that the Legislature can put its voter ID bill at the top of the agenda. How many instances of voter impersonation have there been around the state lately? Well, none. But it’s still an emergency, the state’s $30 billion budget deficit...
Michele Bachmann: Let’s build policy on mythology
In her response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, Tea Party Caucus organizer, American history non-scholar and crazy-eyed lunatic Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said that the Administration “may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama’s healthcare bill.” It’s a shame Congresswoman Bachmann...
Nearly eighty percent of Americans must think lack of prayer killed Tucson victims
Today’s show: according to a new Fox News poll (so take it for what it’s worth), almost 80% of Americans say prayer saved Congresswoman Giffords’ life. So which supreme being let her get shot in the first place, I wonder? What a shame the most merciful one was too busy to pay attention to prayers said on behalf of 9 year old Christina Green. Or...
Can teabaggers be reasoned with?
Depends, I guess. We certainly have different views of reality. Conservative activist and texasgopvote.com blogger Bob Price was on the show today and in the wake of Tucson and President Obama’s call for dignified discussion, we talked civility, civilly. Also, Kriston ate like a pound of donuts. Listen...
Wouldn’t this be a great time for more guns?
Whenever a high-profile shooting takes place, the nation is inevitably and repeatedly subjected to the same stupid sloganeering: -If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns -An armed society is a polite society -”The guys with the guns make the rules” That last one was a bit of braggadocio from America’s leading gun fetishist, Wayne...
