Rep. Matt Gaetz is becoming more like his idol, former President Donald Trump every day. Both have stretched the truth beyond recognition. Both also seem capable of delusional thinking. Trump is still yelling about the "Big Lie" and Gaetz...
I really have to wonder what is wrong with Marjorie Taylor Greene. It's true she's not what most of us would consider particularly intelligent, but there really is something going on here, I think. A lot of it, I...
Something is keeping Rep. Matt Gaetz up at night—and no, it's not an (alleged) underaged girl. Nope, instead he's worried about something that could really be good news to Democrats and therefore bad news to the Republicans. So he...
I'm starting to get a twitch in my whiskers. There's no way that current House Speaker Mike Johnson has the nickname of MAGA Mike. But as other MAGAts have already shown, being a Trump supporter doesn't necessarily make him a brain...
Friends, you do not need to be Nostradamus to see how the conflict du jour is going to go in the House of Representatives. All roads lead to Democratic rule -- oh not *formal* Democratic rule. Things are not...
He may have tried and failed repeatedly to become House Speaker, but Rep. Jim Jordan is attempting a daring measure that throws a possible monkey wrench into special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of former President Donald Trump as the...
It must really suck to be Speaker Mike Johnson. Not that I feel the least bit sorry for him. Earlier I wrote about his face-plant in calling for a floor vote on impeaching DHS Secretary Mayorkas - and NOT...
Lost in all the rock concert level of noise the news has been lately something took place that's gotten little notice. You don't have to be a political junkie to know the main parts of the three week circular...
We'll know on Wednesday whether serial liar and the Brazilian version of Trump the Grifter will be allowed to serve out the rest of his only term in congress before retiring off to model an orange jumpsuit. But in one way it's already...
In theory at least Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House of Representatives. In practice, despite his increasing insistence to the contrary Donald Trump is the one actually wielding the enormous power that goes with the title and job....

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