When The Vanquishing of Rational Thought Becomes The Crowning Achievement of an Election . . . .

Additional evidence that the state of Texas is in the midst of a massive, uncontrollable epidemic of mad-cow disease (they do consume a lot of beef in that state) which has infected the human population (mostly conservatives curiously) and is rotting their brains from the inside out:

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is finally talking about the mystery company that paid him a total of $350,000 in 2011 and 2012. He says it's all made up.

In an interview with Breitbart News published Wednesday, Stockman accused The Houston Chronicle of "making up" information in its article last month spotlighting the $350,000 he made from an entity called "Presidential Trust Marketing." The Chronicle found that Stockman has "failed to make federally required disclosures about business affiliations that stretch from Texas to the British Virgin Islands, and has provided no details about the business he claims as his sole source of income."

Breitbart later pulled the paperwork and verified that the Chronicle had accurately reported the details of Stockman's House disclosure forms. But Stockman insisted that the Chronicle had made up the $350,000 figure.

"About that $350,000, too, you can pull the report," Stockman said. "It's like, 'where do they get this number?' It's just like out of whole cloth."

Breitbart also asked Stockman to talk about just what Presidential Trust Marketing is -- no media outlet has been able to determine exactly what the entity is or does.

"You're not listening to me," Stockman said in response. "I'm telling you that this is something I'm not going to keep going after. They [the Houston Chronicle] know what it is. And you can find out what it is. I'm not going to dignify their paper. I mean, they're nuts. They are wholly crazy about this. And it's why we've been at war with them for 20 years and they're the only paper, I might add, that's printing that stuff."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/stockman-says-people-are-lying-about-his-mystery-350-000


Translation:  I Steve Stockman deny to the reporters at Breitbart.com that the Houston Chronicle story about my mystery income of $350k from a mystery company that nobody seems to know anything about and which has been confirmed by Breitbart's own investigation, has one iota of truth to it . . . . . 'cuz  . . . . . FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM! .... or something along those lines.

To summarize more broadly - Stockman is the Teabagger darling who this week publicly announced that he is challenging not-quite-as-batshit-crazy current Senator John Cornyn for his seat, and wherein if he wins, it would give the Lone Star state the frightening distinction of having both of it's senators (Ted Cruz) be prime candidates on the short list for involuntary admission to the nearest maximum security facility for the criminally insane.

Cornyn is in trouble.  Stockman's loony toons credentials are top-notch, his penchant for obfuscation and dazzling dishonesty (what $350,000 salary?), and the conservative voters of Texas long ago checked out of the Reality-Based Universe Hotel (as evidenced by Louie Gohmert's 4 congressional terms), so that makes Cornyn deliciously ripe for a Tea Party plucking.

Regardless of the outcome of the Cornyn/Stockman cage match, there are quite likely to be some entertaining moments as the Tea Party attempts to consolidate it's intra-party power further by crushing the scrotum sac of the hapless John Boehner and his ragged, remaining gaggle of establishment Republicans, who by all accounts, are still under the cute, albeit ludicrous delusion that the Teabaggers are not actually insane, goose-stepping nihilists, but just misunderstood patriots in need of some GOP lovin'.

Pass the popcorn.



----TFG