It was smiles all around late yesterday afternoon as GOP caucus members gathered to support their latest sacrificial lamb…er…nominee in the most contentious and potentially consequential contest for the House Speakership in U.S. history. The next Speaker of the House...
There are two basic types of people in politics, those who have ideas and principles that they actually believe in and want to legislate, and those with no ideas who don't believe in anything, but love power. The pursuit...
You know my friends, this is starting to seem like Groundhog’s Day. The holiday, not the movie. It seems like just about once a year, Punxsutawney Veselnitskaya pokes her head up out of her hole, and Vladimir Putin in a topper gravely proclaims how many more weeks of Russian winter Trump will have to suffer […]
This is one of those classic good news, bad news conundrums. The good news is Matt Gaetz might not run for reelection and he might even leave Congress before the end of his term. The bad news is that...
*****************TRIGGER WARNING************************ This is flat out ugly, what congressional wannabe Laura Loomer has written about Ilhan Omar. It is so negative and ugly that I debated not sharing it at all on this platform. But the problem with that, is...
Miss Jewish Space Lasers, QAnon queen Marjorie Taylor Greene, visited the Holocaust Museum today and she gave a press conference afterwards to say that she was wrong about comparing simple COVID mask mandates to the worst atrocity in human...
The first threads are coming undone and soon, ladies and gentlemen, you will be able to watch Kevin McCarthy come apart at the seams, like a cheap suit. He's had a chance to deal equitably with Marjorie Taylor Greene...
This is a curious case of mistaken identity, but maybe not when you consider that Rudy Giuliani ended up giving an important post-election speech from the parking lot of a landscaping company and not the palatial Four Seasons Hotel,...
Traditional wisdom was always that if there was one thing that Republicans were good at, it was cutting taxes. They might be total goobers at everything else, but they have always been savants when it came to cutting the uber...
Is this going on in any other country, elected officials screaming in the streets, and on the steps of government buildings? Or is it just in America that looks like a Fellini movie and just with a certain contingent...

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