They're Going to Take Me Away, Ho, Ho to the Funnyfarm

**29% of voters in Louisiana believe President Obama is responsible for the slow response to Katrina. 28% believe it was George W. Bush's fault.

**Terrible Terry McAuliffe has a six point lead over truly horrible Cooch in Virginia Governor's race.

**Rick Perry has asked the federal government for $100 million of Obamacare money to provide for the disabled and elderly. 

**It will Ted Cruz eight months to process his renunciation of his Canadian citizenship. No one knows whether he has to renounce a Cuban citizenship as well.

**Pvt. Manning was sentenced to 35 years today. His lawyer has asked for twenty five and the prosecutors asked for 75. Manning will be eligible for parole in eight years. I'm surprised that his defense never invoked his exposure of war crimes as a defense.

**Obama's ratings fell this month because of the NSA issue among the younger voters. August has been his worth month every year. But the Republicans are below the floor and congress sports a 10% approval rating. Observers say they may experience a dead cat bounce in the mid-terms but are falling apart as a party.

**Governor Le Page of Maine claims he did not say Obama hated white people despite Republican fundraisers saying he did. Le Page,Florida's Scott,Ohio's Kasich now face serious re-election difficulties next time around.

**Bill Kristol insists Sarah Palin could get her mojo back if she ran for Senate in Alaska. Teabagger Millers claims this time he will run against the Surveillance state. Begich looks solid in his re-election run.

**Bobby Jindal has the worst ratings of any GOP governor. Now it looks like Mary Landrieu is off to a good re-election campaign. She is ahead of her GOP counterpart by 10 points.

**Over 50% of young people in GOP families have signed on to health insurance under their family's policies as approved by Obamacare. Only 26% of Democratis kids have. So much for the tea bagger campaign for young people not to have health insurance. 

**Ted Cruz thinks shutting down the government to defund Obamacare may not be a good idea after all. Instead, he wants to do it with the debt ceiling.

**Bryan Ferry of the American Family group urges civil disobedience over congressional types not holding Townhall meetings.

**Glenn Greenwald is still pounding out the words of the Guardian case and his husband being detained at Heathrow.

**The FBI claims that have busted up Anonymous but concentrating on a splinter group within the hackers movement.

**Howard Dean told audiences in Iowa he favors Hillary Clinton at this point of time.

**The Right claims that President Obama doesn't have any white dogs and that his new one is really named Sunni.

**As we should have expected, women are crossing state borders for abortions as restrictions have been implemented in Red States.

**The GOP in North Carolina may be rigging the vote but there is good news from Winston-Salem. The GOP candidate had to pull out for calling city workers the "N" word. So the winner of the Democratic primary becomes mayor.

**The GOP co-chairman for the Iowa district of Steven King,the Cantaloupe Man, has resigned from the Republican party because it was gone too far right for his taste. Watch this space for more defections ,especially after the House comes back in session.

**Here are some things to think about--Mohammed Morsi is in prison,Mubarack is free. The Obama administration asked a federal court in San Francisco to give amnesty to Bush, Cheney,Rumsfeld and Condi Rice for war crimes in Iraq, while jailing PVT Manning for exposing those crimes.