Holy moly, has the GOP really drifted this far right that even this guy with his binders full of women looks okay?

Sources tell UtahPolicy.com that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is preparing to run for Senate in 2018 if Sen. Orrin Hatch decides to retire.

Sources close to Romney say the two-time presidential candidate will jump into the 2018 Utah Senate scrum if Hatch opts not to.

Yeah, Mitt, pile your dog on top of your car and head to DeeCee.  You’re hardly gonna recognize the place.

I wonder if Mitt and Paul Ryan are still speaking.  Anybody know?

So, I saw a headline over at Politico that said, “Democrats plotting primaries against a slate of GOP incumbents.”

No, wait.  That’s not what it says.

Well, okey dokey.  That sounds plenty fine, too.

Okay, y’all, Miss Texas did her job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErdRoaj-dJQ

You can skip the two commercials at the beginning after 15 seconds.  Do it and then listen to her response about Charlottesville.

Thanks to Dori for the heads up.

Gerrymandering is a disguising, vile, undemocratic, hateful thing to do in America.  Except, of course, when you’re from North Carolina and you get caught opposing it.

Two House Republicans from North Carolina who signed on to a brief urging the end of political gerrymandering say they did so by accident, the Raleigh News and Observer reported on Friday.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) (pictured above), both conservative House members, signed a high-profile amicus brief for a Supreme Court case out of Wisconsin, urging the court to rule against political gerrymandering.

Meadows said his name was added “in error” because when he signed it that meant he was willing to “review it.”

Oh, please.

Jones’ spokesperson say his name was added to the brief “through a misunderstanding.”  I think the only thing he misunderstood is that the end to gerrymandering would cause Republicans to lose their seats and it got a little hot in the kitchen.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

Four Texas Republicans voted against Hurricane Harvey aid for Texas.

I’m fixing to name them right now: Twit, Jerk, Idiot, and Damn Crook.

If you want their birth names, you have to trust someone else because they are all dead to me.

Four Texas Republicans opposed the package: Reps. Joe Barton, Jeb Hensarling, Sam Johnson and Mac Thornberry. But none of them represent counties deemed disaster areas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Yeah, they live in the Dallas area.

Louie Gohmert and Blake Farenthold both voted for it because their districts were impacted by Harvey.

So, the “government should only get involved if it benefits me personally” continues to be the Texas Republican mantra.

I should not write about this.  There are some things that Republicans do that make even me queazy.

This is one of them.  However, since every damn one of you sent me this story and it does involved a bleached blonde big haired woman, I kinda feel a duty to report this.

Bobby R. Burchfield is a fancy pants Republican lawyer.  He helped George W with the 2000 Florida recount, and now he’s an ethics lawyer for Donald J Trump, which I’m sure keeps him plenty busy.

Burchfield’s wife, Teresa Jo, apparently got bored.  Real bored.

Teresa Jo Burchfield was arrested Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot adjacent to the Fauquier County Adult Detention Center after deputies found her in the backseat of a car with an inmate/trustee at the jail, according to sheriff’s office Sgt. James Hartman.

Burchfield and the 23-year-old inmate were having sex in the car, according to a criminal complaint filed at Fauquier County General District Court.

Not only that, but Teresa Jo was giving the inmate clothes, vitamins, cigarettes, and “other unauthorized items.”

One of the customers here, a lawyer who shall remain unnamed unless he pisses me off, sent the story with a note that said, “I shouldn’t send this.  I actually feel sorry for the guy.”  I had to think for a minute.  Which one – the inmate or the husband?

I’m guessing it was the husband because only a lawyer could feel sorry for another lawyer.  The rest of us think she was just moving up the social scale.