January 4, 2023

McCarthy: 6 time loser

January 4, 2023

McCarthy: 5 time loser

January 4, 2023

5th Ballot for House Speaker coming up.

Don't count out the Dems yet. They may just take this when all is said and done.

January 3, 2023

The U.S. House has a problem: his name is Kevin McCarthy (my words)

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-2-2023

'It appears that House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) still does not have the votes to become speaker...He has agreed to make it a great deal easier for members of the House to throw out the speaker...He has agreed to put more of the extreme right members on committees, and he has said he will create a select committee to investigate the “weaponization of government against our citizens.”

He has agreed to cuts to the Office of Congressional Ethics and to forcing the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol to turn over all of its documents to the Committee on House Administration, rather than the National Archives, which has sparked concerns that Republican members will reveal the identities of national security personnel who testified before the committee.

...it seems the more he concedes, the weaker he looks. On Saturday night, nine members of the far-right congressional delegation, many of whom are implicated in the January 6, 2021, attempt to overthrow the government, indicated his concessions were still not enough. They issued a letter with the warning: “Time to make the change or get out of the way.” The letter complained of “deficiencies” and “dysfunction” and “Republican failures” but was quite vague about what its authors wanted, except perhaps power.'

December 31, 2022

I wondered if Melania Trump was responsible for deliberate errors on jointly signed tax returns

So, from what I can learn: probably, maybe, kinda, sorta. She can file for 'Innocent Spouse Relief.' Good luck with that, Melania.

December 31, 2022

Barbara Walters Died

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/entertainment/barbara-walters-death/index.html

December 28, 2022

Breaking Now: House Panel to Publicly Release Trump Taxes On Friday: Deadline White House.

December 26, 2022

An Insanity Plea for Trump? Professor Tribe says, 'Yes'.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-legal-team-should-have-him-plead-insanity-harvard-law-professor/

'Trump's legal team should have him plead insanity: Harvard law professor'

'Constitutional law expert Lawrence Tribe tweeted this Sunday that Donald Trump's legal team should get him to plead insanity if he goes to trial.'

I don't see Trump agreeing to this but, hey, could happen (my words). What do you think?

December 25, 2022

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, Peeps. P.S. Trump is losing his shit.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-blows-up-on-mentally-disabled-biden/

'Trump rages at special counsel Jack Smith and calls Biden 'mentally disabled' as he wishes 'everyone' a Merry Christmas'

December 21, 2022

What do 12/19/2020 and 12/19/2022 have in common?

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2022


'...Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol held its final public hearing...Exactly two years ago today, on December 19, 2020, when it became clear that his campaign lawyers had lost their legal challenges and the real electors had filed their electoral slates, Trump tweeted to his supporters to urge them to come to Washington, D.C., on January 6...Immediately, they interpreted his tweet as an order to come to Washington to keep him in office, with violence if necessary, and they planned accordingly.

The committee establishes that Trump fully intended to go with his supporters to the Capitol. This is a very big deal indeed: the president traditionally cannot go to the chambers of Congress without a formal invitation...A White House security official said, “[W]e were all in a state of shock…we all knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else…. I—I don’t know if you want to use the word “insurrection,” “coup,” whatever.”

...historian of authoritarians Ruth Ben-Ghiat noted that a leader launching a new regime needs to be present at the front of his cheering troops to mark his success...Fittingly, on December 15, the Coup d’État Project of theCline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois, which maintains the world’s largest registry of coups, attempted coups, and coup conspiracies since World War II, reclassified the events of January 6 as an attempted “auto-coup.”'