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.

Well, my goodness.

The Rev. Bill Hybels is resigning as chief pastor of the 25,000 member megachurch, Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago.

Happily no sex with animals (see below) was involved but sex with congregants and employees was.

Amusingly, Hybels started off saying that all the claims were lies.

Hybels had previously called the allegations against him “flat-out lies.” He also had said that the multiyear effort by former senior leaders of the church to push for an independent investigation was nothing but “collusion.”

Yeah, that collusion stuff is a nifty new word.

And then there’s the other men in the church.

Jim Tofilon said he believes Hybels was a victim of the #MeToo bandwagon.

“It’s very destructive,” said Tofilon, who has attended the church since 1991. “It worked. It destroyed an old man’s life. Nothing good came out of it. I hope people making the accusations feel satisfied.”

Yeah, damned ole Eve – she made this mess.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Okay, if you ever drive through Louisiana, I need to let you know where you should not take any household pets you may own.

The Louisiana State Legislature voted yesterday to make having sex with animals illegal.  It passed 25 to 10.

Who are the ten who voted against it, you ask? Well, aren’t you lucky because that’s what I do for a living.

Here are the ten:

• LA Senate President Alario
• Allain
• Claitor
• Donahue
• Fannin
• Gatti
• Long
• Mizell
• Perry
• Riser

Next, I went to this page and discovered … ta da! that they are all Repubicans.

Louisiana, where men are men and sheep are afraid.

And that’s the news.

You’ve very welcome.

Can you use Twitter to declare war?

Apparently so.

Too damn bad our president isn’t “nice, new, and smart.”

I know the some guys in congress are working across the aisle to come up with legislation to keep Trump from firing Mueller.  Crap.  Let’s work on a way to stop him from starting a war he has no idea how to end or win.