Hey, I didn’t even think about this.

Taegan Goddard at Political Wire points out something I never even thought about.  And I wonder why the talking heads on the teevee didn’t catch it.

But what’s missing from most of the news coverage is that Cohen was also the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee when these payments were made.

Cohen’s legal troubles obviously present problems for President Trump. But they’re now a problem for the entire Republican party as well.

Could not happen to a better bunch of guys.

Michael Cohen took $500,000 from a company linked to a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin?  After the election?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

He also took money from AT&T for pay to play?

He poured algae in the swamp.

Y’all, we have a logistics problem.  The state of Louisiana, America, is having a very busy week.

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana’s Department of Health will begin sending nursing home eviction notices Thursday to more than 30,000 residents who could lose Medicaid under the budget passed by the state House of Representatives.

Best I can figure, they have no place to put 30,000 nursing home residents.  The “vast majority” of nursing homes will close and “more than 25,000 people” working in health care will lose their jobs.

The Louisiana State House has 105 representatives, the Louisiana Senate has 39 senators.  If my math is correct, that’s about 208 people per state legislator.  So, now the problem doesn’t look so big, right?  So if each member of the legislature would just take 208 people home with them and house and feed them in their backyard, problem solved!

And how about the 25,000 people who will be unemployed?  Simple!  Put them in some of the empty nursing homes until they find another job.

But for goodness sake, do not raise taxes even one penny.

So, Ted Cruz tweeted that Beto O’Rourke wants to legalize all drugs.

The Houston Chronicle goes on for pages meticulously explaining that this isn’t true.  They use actual documents, city council minutes, direct quote from original sources and charts and graphs to prove that Ted Cruz is wrong, wrong, wrong.

It can be condensed down to this:  The sumbitch is 8 pounds of lies in a 5 pound bag.

Ted Cruz responds that Politifacts is liberal.

Yeah, the truth has a liberal bend.

Y’all, I get confused if I cross the Texas border.  There’s plenty of politics here to entertain me.  So, Roll Call has put together a nifty little Guide of What To Watch For tonight.

I thought maybe somebody else might want to use it.

Click right here.

There’s a sheriff in Morgan County, Alabama, America, by the name of Ana Franklin. She is a law and order, family values, Christian Republican.

She is also a crook.

Among other things, Ana stands accused of … let me take a deep breath here … stealing money from the fund meant to feed inmates, investing that money in a shady used car company run by a convicted felon who also employs her father and her daughter, bribing a 19 year old citizen to put a tracer on his grandmother’s computer, starving inmates and feeding them uncooked beans, firing a jail warden for leaking information to a local blogger who was writing about the sheriff’s wrongdoings, deliberately lying a court to issue a search warrant on the blogger’s computer, raised money for a charity through a sheriff’s rodeo and then lied about the charity part, and, seriously? uncooked beans? How the hell do you eat uncooked beans.

After asking for prayers and claiming innocence, Ana has announced that she will not beseeching re-election.  However, she has every intention of serving out her term.  And her second term will be served out in a jail with uncooked beans.

Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.