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The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, who called the search “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.”

When your lawyers have to have lawyers, you just might be … in a damn mess you can’t swim out of.

Lemme see if I have this right.  Investigating Bill Clinton for consensual sex is perfectly fine when Ken Starr was doing it, but not when it happens to Trump.  Oh yeah, that makes sense.

This just in:  Agents also raided Cohen’s room at the Regency Hotel in New York.  Agents stayed for several hours.

Thanks to Deb T. for the heads up.

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz was on Fox News yesterday and some graphics people on the network probably lost their job.

Talking about the detrimental effect that Trump’s tweets were having on the electorate, someone accidentally showed this graphic about how much networks are trusted —

Howard Kurtz immediately saw the mistake and sternly said, “That is not the graphic we are looking for. Hold off.  Take that down, please.”

Too late.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Florida is gonna be a might interesting this election season.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) announced on Monday that he’ll challenge Sen. Bill Nelson (D), setting up a marquee battle that could help decide which party controls the Senate.

Trump won Florida by less than a percentage point.  Trump and Scott are closer than skin on a sausage.

It’ll be a blood sport but it will also probably be the most expensive political race in the country.  Florida loves to spend money wildly on its politicians.

The big question hanging in the air is this: Will Scott’s giving in just a little on gun control with his three day waiting period piss off the NRA but also make the energized kids and Democrats mad because it’s far too little far too late?  It’s hard to totally hack-off both sides but he might have done it.

And … about 100,000 Puerto Ricans resettled to Florida following hurricane Maria.  They vote 2 to 1 for Democrats.

It’s gonna be genuine fun for political scientists to watch this race.

You know, when a man advertises himself as “the Christian District Attorney” you know right there that’s something’s wrong.

A Christian prosecutor who regularly boasted of waging culture wars against liberals resigned this week amid allegations that he gave women drug dealers lighter sentences in exchange for sexual favors.

Of course he did.  Bill Higgins was proud that the ACLU questioned his motives.

And this sumbitch was haughty as hell about being a whole lot more good ole praying American than you are.

I guess I should take solace in the fact that the liberals are mad at me – again,” he said in 2014 regarding the case of a 14-year-old accused of desecrating a statue of Jesus. “If that tends to upset the ‘anti-Christian, ban-school-prayer, war-on-Christmas, oppose-display-of-Ten-Commandments’ crowd, I make no apologies.”

And, here’s a shocker – this ain’t even in the south.  This is in Pennsylvania. This crap is spreading.

Irony – he was accused of sexually assaulting  woman following a Republican party meeting. He admitted to adultery but denied it was assault. He won re-election that year in a county that went 5 to 1 for Trump.

Thanks to Donna for the heads up.

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Live your life very carefully or you may end up like this.

Need a closer picture to identify this former Mr. Vanity?

Yeah, that’s Tom DeLay preaching on the street corner up at the Krogers in Sugar Land.

Poor guy hasn’t found even one job since he quit congress.  He just jumps into one scam after the other.  Now he wants you to just give him money to go out and preach The Word.  He’s kinda a cross between a teevee evangelist and a panhandler.

Man, if he was wearing socks with those sandals, it would be perfect.

Oh, bless your heart South Carolina.

South Carolina Republican Congressman (you know what’s coming, don’t you?) Ralph Norman pulled out his .38 caliber Smith and Wesson at a town hall meeting with his constituents and announced, “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords.”

Tasteless sumbitch.  He must have stayed awake for days and smoked a pound of synthetic weed to come up with something that mean.

And he thinks just waving that gun around will keep someone from sneaking up behind him or shooting him from a window or mowing him and everybody around him down because he’s, by gawd, armed and dangerous.

If anyone walked into the diner and started shooting, Norman told the attendees, he would be able to protect them because of his gun.

“I don’t mind dying, but whoever shoots me better shoot well or I’m shooting back,” he told The Post and Courier.

If it’s all the same to you, Congressman, how ’bout protecting us with laws that keep military weapons out of the hands of crazy people.  Your silly little handgun may give you a feeling of false security and make your winkie feel bigger, but it’s not gonna help me none at all.  Nor, truth be known, anybody in the diner, either.

Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.