Radical Texas Republicans in bed with al-Quida?

Are Texas Republican bigwigs holding secret meetings in the Chihuahuan Desert with the likes of Ayman al-Zawahri? Perhaps sneaky little Al-Quida runners are stealthily hauling bags of cash to the likes of Republican Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick or Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. There must be a logical explanation why Republican lawmakers from the Lone Star State and their Gov. Rick “Good Hair Wants the White House” Perry would want to pass legislation that could trigger more 9/11s. When it comes to Republicans in Texas, hell anywhere for that matter, the motive must be money.

I jest, a little bit at least. But Perry has resurrected a previously dead bill he wants passed in the Special Session of the Texas Legislature which would make it a crime for airport security personnel in the state’s airports to “grope” passengers.

The bill failed in the Regular Session. But that was before Perry started believing that he could get elected president. Patrick, who is a Houston right-wing talk show host, is staring at the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. So this anti-federal government legislation would certainly provide “red meat” — a term that is so hackneyed that I can’t believe I am using it — for the nutwing base.

Justice Department officials rained on the radical GOP’s crazy parade during the regular legislative session when they told state officials that Texas airports could be shut down if such a law was passed. Apparently Patrick and Perry — meet the Killer Ps — think the feds are bluffing. We’ll see when the closest airport to Houston to fly out of is in Lake Charles, La.

Whether it is a bluff is debatable. But the radicals see such a law as a stepping stone to a big Constitutional battle. But even as backward and anti-American as the Roberts Supreme Court is at the moment, I can’t see the high court passing a bill that would almost guarantee incidents of terrorism.

We don’t have to worry about just shoe bombs and groin bombs and box cutters either. No, al-Quida has apparently decided they like them some National Rifle Association rhetoric, if not the ability to buy guns through the gun shows the mega-lobby supports.

Adam Gadahn, an American spokesman for Al-Quida, said in a video that the U.S. is “awash with easily obtainable firearms.” Gadahn, whose grandfather was a prominent Jewish doctor but Gadahn himself grew up Protestant Christian, said those who are seeking jihad can go to a gun show and purchase fully automatic weapons without a background check and probably minus even an ID card. In other words, Gadahn, who is also on the FBI terrorism list, is giving people ideas.

Now the NRA backers say that kind of talk is all wrong, that you can’t just go buy a fully-auto machine gun at your local convention center. You can purchase a semi-auto assault rifle though. You might even buy the works to turn those guns into fully automatic.

Hey, I’m not anti-gun. But I am anti-terrorists-with-guns. Likewise, I am anti-terrorists with bombs, knives, box cutters or whatever in wherever on their body and most certainly on an airplane.

These Republicans who think every Fed is out to get them are doing so with legislation such as the “anti-groping” bill that might potentially, once again, turn big jet airplanes full of passengers into bombs that kill thousands. I have seen and heard of some silly stuff brought up by Republicans over the years. But those folks who came up with and are pushing the anti-groping legislation — yes, that slick Aggie cheerleader with the perfect hair included — are among the silliest sons of bitches in the anals (no, it’s not a misspelling) of Texas history.