Another Republican has announced that he’s leaving congress.

Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) announced Thursday that he is leaving Congress before the end of his term to lead the Ohio Business Roundtable.

“Today, it is with a humble and thankful heart that I announce I will not be seeking reelection,” Tiberi said in a statement Thursday. “While I have not yet determined a final resignation date, I will be leaving Congress by January 31, 2018.”

Tiber is a moderate Republican who supported John Boehner.  That adds his name to a growing list of moderate Republicans leaving the house.  He lives in a solid Republican district.

However, earlier this month at the Hill …

Lawmakers intending to retire often announce their plans in the period between Labor Day and the end of the year. But this week’s decisions by Reps. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) to skip reelection bids in competitive districts have fanned speculation once again that the GOP will soon see more lawmakers heading for the exits.

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That ought to kickstart the thing.

Remember the stories about Trump calling gossip columnists pretending to be his own publicist?

I’m not saying he’s doing that again, but … okay, I admit it.  I am saying that.

He has been noticeably quiet about Forbes Magazine dropping his net worth by $600,000, dropping him 92 slots on their richest people.  No Twitters.  No outrages from Sarah Hunkabooboo.  Hum … that’s unlike Trump.  He loves to brag about how rich he is.

However, Forbes did get an interesting voice mail last night.

“This message is for anyone in concern. I’m a supporter of Donald Trump. I love him and his very intelligent family. And this is like Forbes Magazine are in conspiracy to break this man financially, it seems. Donald Trump has more money than he ever had. So Forbes making noise about some three point something billion is fake news and therefore Forbes is on the drain-the-swamp list. Steve Bannon will make sure magazines and businesses like you will go down because Donald Trump is very intelligent, very handsome. His children are very beautiful, very handsome. They have the highest IQs than any racist or anybody in this county. And we love him, and he will continue to run this country, and his children will too. So f— Forbes Magazine, and you can stick that fake news up your ass.”

If you have to mention your intelligence or IQ three times in one phone message, you probably aren’t all that smart.  And, Honey, there ain’t nobody who would call Trump handsome.

Okay, so maybe this was just one of his friends.  No, it wasn’t and you know it.

Gilberto Escaramilla works for the Juvenile Justice Department in San Benito, Texas, which is about ten miles from the border.

He took a day off to go to the doctor and, just by luck of the appointment date, it was discovered that Gilberto has moonlighted with a taxpayer-funded fajita business for the past nine years.  He would order loads of fajitas priced anywhere between $2,500 and $30,000 for the Juvenile Justice Department and sell those fajitas on the open market, pocketing the money.

In case you are considering a money-making side business, please allow me to inform you that stealing fajitas is far more lucrative than you suspected.

After Labatt Food Service and the County Auditor’s Office provided more shipping documents in the form of invoices, vouchers and purchase orders, the unit concluded that Escaramilla had stolen $1,251,578 worth of fajitas, the Brownsville Herald reported.“

[Escaramilla] would literally, on the day he ordered them, deliver them to customers he had already lined up,” Saenz told the publication. ‘We’ve been able to uncover two of his purchasers, and they are in cooperation with the investigation.”

The Juvenile Justice Department announced that they would review and establish “procedures, controls and safeguards to avoid a recurrence of this type of situation.”

Awwww … a day late and $1.2 million short.

Thanks to Pia for the heads up.  

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Yeah, but kneeling at a football game to protest police violence is still disrespectful to the military.

The Washington Post has the story.

This is the damn truth but you’re still not gonna believe it.

A Republican candidate for governor in Georgia is giving away a “bump stock,” the rapid-fire gun modification linked to the Las Vegas shooting, in a campaign contest to highlight his opposition to new regulation on the devices.

State Sen. Michael Williams, who is positioning himself as the most pro-Donald Trump candidate in a crowded GOP field to succeed term-limited Gov. Nathan Deal, said the contest is a celebration of the Second Amendment.

Okay, okay, we can’t take about common sense gun control because it’s “too soon.”  But, we can have a  raffle to celebrate an instrument of mass destruction.

And the Republican Party is still claiming that they are sane, responsible and productive citizens.

If you want to let him know how classy you thin he is, here’s his email address: michael.williams@senate.ga.gov

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.