As you read here yesterday, Republican members of Congress and MAGA queen bees, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, dialed down the civility level of the House of Representatives yet a couple of more notches when the two of...
I tuned in MSNBC a little after seven pm (I live out east) to watch a floor fight over the already infamous Rules Package the "Freedom" Caucus crazies forced on McCarthy as their price for allowing him to become...
Matt Gaetz unleashed some kind of hellish force. He didn't just unseat his enemy, Kevin McCarthy, he threw a monkey wrench into the wheels of government. Things are getting surreal, if we are to believe what Ken Buck says,...
Trust me, this lead in will make sense in a couple of paragraphs. Let's say you're feeling down, kind of racy, and need a laugh. Then an Andrew Dice Clay concert is just what the doctor ordered. Hell, one of his...
I have been bullish on the Democrats retaking the House in 2024 for several months now, for reasons I'll explain below. But now, with this fresh news, I'm rapidly approaching nocturnal emissions. I wrote more than a month ago that...
Dear Squeaker McCarthy, Welcome back to work, I hope you enjoyed your vacation. I must admit, I'm jealous, I had to work for United Airlines for 15 years before I got six weeks of vacation a year. You guys get that just...
Jim Jordan is going to put together a third vote. And then a fourth and a fifth and we don't know how many. Neither does he. What's intriguing about all this is that Jordan never particularly wanted to be...
It's always a good idea if you're talking about politics to actually know something about politics. Or any topic, for that matter. A discussion on baseball falls flat if only one of the parties knows that baseball is the...
It's always funny, until someone gets hurt Admit it, it was kinda funny at first, watching Kreepy Kevin McCarthy, the power politics equivalent of Barney Fife, flopping around like a carp in the bottom of a boat, and running around to all...
There is a silver lining in every cloud, we are told and it may turn out to be a blessing that George Santos got elected in the first place. Seriously. Santos’ fellow first-term New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito is...

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