And your boss’s goons can stop trying to recruit me to help them try again — Recently, House GOP minority leader Kevin McCarthy was reminded of his words back in the day about who bore responsibility for January 6th (President Trump, he said then) and was asked who he now believes bore responsibility for that day. His response per YAHOO News (original links left intact): “Look…

Constitutionally, I mean. Ain’t that a kick in the head? — I was lying in bed fighting with some lower back pain (once again), and my mind began an unbidden scanning of just who among the big-name GOP’ers was up for re-election in 2022 or likely to run for President in 2024. …

And on one subject she unwittingly explains something that had seemed inexplicable to some — Yes, folks, one of Donald Trump’s most stalwart distaff knights-errant and supporters/apologists has written a book (surprise!) about things Trump and her time in the Trump White House. Ordinarily, I would not have spent even a moment on that person’s viewpoints, and I still won’t buy her book. But the…

He lost an election, and maybe is “lost” in other ways; but at 20-something he was able to concede the loss, and with grace — Yes folks, I had taken to calling Cawthorn in my own mind “No Idea” because I became convinced that he really had no idea what he was supposed to be doing, or any idea what Congress is for, or…well, no idea about much of anything other than being selfish, outrageous…

It couldn’t be for other reasons? The brouhaha over the “leak” isn’t just deflection or misdirection? — Clarence Thomas is continuing his extrajudicial activities (right to free speech and expression, you know) speaking in public and lamenting the erosion of trust in the Supreme Court. This, he asserts, is because of the leaked draft opinion in a Mississippi case that suggests the Court is poised to overturn…

Granted, 30,000+ lies or misleading statements seem to constitute a pattern and practice. But on 2 issues he can be honest. — So you’re one of the folks who still can’t believe that Donald Trump wants to be a king and establish a Trump dynasty? Many people who’ve been paying close attention for several years realized long ago that this was Trump’s dream, and (despite the promptly disproven “he’d never do that”…

Among the swirl and eddy in the swamp that is “Trump Country” there is some evidence of drainage going on — First, while in Trump Country there seems to be reasonably solid evidence of Trump’s endorsement strategy being a good one in the primary field, an early special (i.e., general type) election hasn’t worked out that way. In a special election for a state legislature district seat, the sickeningly Trumpy Republican…

A leaked SCOTUS opinion, by bloody hell. Whodathunkit? And whodunnit? I have a notion and some questions. — Leakers, liars and lawyers. Our subject today is about all three; and the leak is of a SCOTUS opinion on the issue of abortion and Roe v. Wade. Conservatives blame liberals. Liberals seem to be pointing the finger at conservatives. The reasoning for each side’s suspicion fluctuates on a logic…

You like scary movies? Here’s one of the scarier plot lines amongst the many frighteners looming in America — Recent reports and images of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unannounced trip to Ukraine prompted me to think about the different kinds of importance attached to the position she holds presently. Yes, that trip was seriously on the down-low, and she was accompanied by representatives Gregory Meeks and Adam Schiff.