You cannot make this shit up. You know, it's one thing when you've negotiated a deal that's about as popular with your caucus as Herpes, to take to the microphones and extol the virtues of how you ran laps...
I don't ever want to hear anybody tell me what a doddering dotard President Joe Biden is. Sh*t! He's been doing this for a living for 51 bloody years. Kevin McCarthy was a whopping 7 years old when Biden...
It isn't Jack Smith. Although the Special Counsel is conducting multiple investigations into Trump crimes, this latest furore is not about that. It isn't Fani Willis. The regular grand jury with indictment power is underway and Trump's bargain basement lawyers...
There is considerable confusion when it comes to seditious members of Congress and it's time to sort it out so we're all on the same page. First, we know there are seditionists in Congress, this is not in dispute. Who...
I looked it up. The shortest period of service for Speaker of the House is a record held by the NY-24 Representative in 1869. On March 3 of that year, after serving four terms in the US House, Theodore...
I am so glad that somebody finally spoke out publicly on this insulting holdover from Rush Limbaugh, dead but still imitated, of calling the Democratic party the "Democrat" party. Lauren Boebert is one of the ones who doesn't say...
Things can get wild in Congress from time to time. We're not quite at the place where one member is going after another member with a cane, which was seen in the Senate in the 1800's, but the verbal...
Marjorie Taylor Greene has made a statement that black folk should feel pride when confronted with an existent Confederate Monument because such an assault on their senses would provide an golden opportunity to demonstrate to their children what great...
I guess we'll have comic relief from George Santos all the way down to his last comment on his last day in Congress. Then he'll mercifully vanish into the same media black hole where Madison Cawthorn and Herschel Walker...
Kevin McCarthy is not finding his leadership role to be the way he fantasized it. McCarthy, like Donald Trump, thought being in charge meant being venerated, lauded, lionized, worshipped, fawned upon. And indeed, many of those things are the...

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