There are impulsive gestures, ill advised gestures and downright stupid ones and today Krysten Sinema has created a viral image of the third variety. It's assumed that she's imitating the famous gesture of fellow Arizona senator, the late John...
There are only two types of people in the world, people who hate Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz. John Boehner is in the larger class of persons, with the rest of us, who hate Ted Cruz. Boehner was earlier...
This is the shape of things to come, in the wake of the collapse of the Republican party during the Trump years -- although Trump is not entirely to blame. If the party wasn't a rotted husk in 2016,...
Lindsey Graham is turning into a character in a Gothic horror novel. He was once a decent enough guy, considered an honorable man, at least enough to be friends with the likes of Joe Biden and John McCain. But...
Whoever is writing this stuff is a frustrated writer of dystopian fiction -- or at least that's how I would write it, if I was going to novelize this QAnon fantasy tour which is plaguing this country right now. ...
The GOP GQP is having a massive identity crisis these days. Nebraska senator Ben Sasse movingly took to the airwaves and addressed his censure by the local Republican party (for not voting to overturn election results), saying that the...
And, like clockwork, some "progressives" are coming together in an attempt to give control of the US Senate back to the Republicans. Let the backstabbing begin. Again. Politico reports: "Progressive PAC kick-starts search for challengers to Manchin, Sinema." So. Let's look...
Theatrics are going to cost a few members of congress a nice chunk of pay, and rightfully so. Louie Toujours l'idiote Gohmert and his fellow gun toting congresscritter Andrew Clyde of Georgia were fined $5,000 today for skipping the...
Cartoon figures are always characterized by some exaggerated characteristic, like a huge mustache or a prop, like a silly helmet, or some unique verbal tweak they do. Marjorie Taylor Greene has them all. She is totally a character out...
Senator Ben Sasse is the latest in a growing list of congressional republicans being censured by their GOP back home. Nor is it the first time for him. In 2016, Nebraska GOP censured Sasse for "not being supportive enough...

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