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Former two term East Texas Republican congressman Steve Stockman just received some pretty bad news.

A federal jury in Houston found him guilty of 23 felonies.

Steve Stockman, a Republican former congressman from Texas, has been convicted of defrauding two conservative mega-donors and funneling their $1.25 million into personal and campaign expenses as part of what prosecutors have described as a “white collar crime spree.”

Stockman is a far rightwing nut case.  I wrote about him pretty damn often, as you can see here.  I also had some fun when the fire marshall shut down Stockman’s campaign headquarters as “unsafe for human habitation.”

I’m sorry y’all aren’t getting this hot off the presses, but I had to sober up first.

They marched his prissy butt off to the pokey while he awaits sentencing in August. They decided he’s a flight risk.

Okay, back to celebrating!

Quote of the Month Club is a doubleheader:

“I just want my stuff back.”

— Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, quoted by the Daily Beast, after FBI agents raided his home and office.

It’s all about the stuff, y’all.

And …

“… it could be be very soon or not so soon at all!”

— Trump on his promised attacks on Syria.

It could also be mid-soon, soonish, soonly, semi-soon, Soon River wider than a mile, soon as I finish that wall thing, half past soon …

One good thing about Trump. You’re not hearing so much about making English the official language any more.

Steve Bannon has all the answers.

One of his suggestions:

And he is telling associates inside and outside the administration that the president should create a new legal battleground to protect himself from the investigation by asserting executive privilege — and arguing that Mueller’s interviews with White House officials over the past year should now be null and void.

Thank you, Matlock, for that legal advice.  It has joyful giggles dancing across law schools all  over America.

Bannon says Trump should plead what’s called ineffective assistance of counsel because he didn’t get good advice from them.  Oh yeah, like Trump always follows advice.

I was talking to Pam last night and she said, “If Democrats retake the House and they elect Steny Hoyer  (a 79 year old Democrat from Maryland who has served for 40 years) as Speaker of the House, I’m gonna just say screw ‘um.”

It appears that Hoyer is “next in line” to be speaker.  But Pam ain’t the only one with concerns about another old white man.  I tend to agree.  Hoyer is also way too conservative for my taste.

I want a fire breathing liberal.  When Republicans call us liberals, I want it to be bygawd right!

I discovered this morning, that some congressmen are thinking along the same lines.

That’s a good sign.

There has been some rumblings about Trump having an illegitimate child and how the National Enquirer paid a doorman $30,000 to kill the story.

I didn’t much believe it.

Then the New Yorker and the Associated Press printed it.  And this morning, CNN felt comfortable enough to send out a Breaking News story.  However, they are still calling it “allegedly.”

To me, it all comes down to rumors so I’m still not willing to bet my best pair of pink boots on it.  They are saying this shows a pattern of behavior of payoffs to kill stories.  Worse has happened in politics.  Plus, I don’t think Trump’s supporters give a big bear’s butt about him being a liar, a thief, and a serial nincompoop.

But there you have it. This counts as news now days.

Thanks to Phyllis for the heads up.