Unreleased video of Eddie Izzard live at Union Square in New York. Here he discusses that American’s don’t like to call the bathroom a toilet. Then he rails on Republican Foreign Policy.

Texas Legislature blog: House gets budget offer signed by 21 senators, including Royce West of Dallas
Preempting any questions about specifics, Dewhurst raised his hand and said, “I’m going to leave this is in the House’s hands. And I’m not going to negotiate in the press, so I’ll leave it with them.”

County GOP member wants party to stop endorsing for primary
HAMILTON — The Butler County Republican Party is expected to vote Wednesday night on whether the party should stop endorsing candidates.A proposal by party member Deborah Rivera states the party should “no longer endorse candidates for the Republican primary effective immediately upon approval.”

This past month, the political world stood in amazement as longtime Republican Arlen Specter — facing a heavy backlash from Pennsylvania Republicans — switched his party affiliation and became a Democrat. The defection was attributed to a bout of ill-fitting philosophies and political opportunism on Specter’s behalf. The senator, RNC Chairman Michael Steele declared, had voted himself out of the Republican Party.

Perhaps. But in California, the purging of Republican pols unwilling to take the party line on economic issues is becoming systemic. Under the national radar but making news in the state, recall efforts have been launched targeting several GOP officials for voting with their Democratic colleagues on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget. One of the members in the spotlight is Assemblyman Anthony Adams, whose alleged indiscretion was simple: the budget he supported called for a state-wide vote on raising income and sales taxes and car-registration fees. In other words, in the eyes of his fellow party members, he had voted for a tax increase.

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Texas House passes bill banning TSA airport ‘groping’
The Texas House of Representatives late on Thursday approved a bill that would make invasive pat-downs at Texas airports a crime, after a former Miss USA said she felt “molested” at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport last month.

SPECIAL REPORT – Stuck between the Tea Party and a hard place
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) – This John Boehner was not the John Boehner that Tea Party leaders in the room thought they knew.

Texas House Bans `Offensive’ Security Pat-Downs
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.

Rick Perry thinks you’ll believe his cock and bull story. He’d have you believe that he ‘confronted’ Obama over what he calls out-of-control Washington spending