Oh Republican man, look at you.

Blake Farenthold still owes $84,000 to taxpayers, $125,000 to cover the cost of the special election to replace him, he’s still collecting his $160,000 congressional salary, and now he’s expecting taxpayers to pay $400 an hour to lawyers to help him keep his new job at the Calhoun Port Authority which created a new job for him and hid his hiring from the public.

Blake has that Republican disease – you know, the one where he can’t keep his hands in his own pocket.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

The Houston Chronicle did an editorial that may be some of their best work.

They are not happy with what Trump said about Hurricane Harvey.

Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to bizarre Trumpian bloviations. (No, Mr. President, Canada did not burn down the White House.) The ad hoc remarks are often best ignored. U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz did just that, discretion being the better part of Republican valor in these peculiar times. And yet the president’s Hurricane Harvey inanity is too serious for Houstonians to let slide.

Help from the federal government, from the White House, from the Texas congressional delegation. If the man in charge is abysmally ignorant about what happened in the wake of a Category 4 storm and the epic deluge that followed, who’s to say that government agencies — Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Flood Insurance Program, among others — will understand the urgency of Houston’s needs? Who’s to say that Ben Carson and other Trump appointees will be any better informed?

Good damn question! And they use trickle down down to handle Greg Abbott.

We need political leadership — from Washington to be sure, but also from Austin. Gov. Greg Abbott, whose mealy-mouthed response to the president’s remark was nearly as inane as the remark itself — “no information on that one way or the other” — ought to have called a special session of the Texas Legislature months ago to address relief, recovery and preparedness. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick needs to tend to local needs.

My favorite is them calling Trump “abysmally ignorant.”

Thanks to everybody for the heads up. 

Remember Sheriff David Clarke, the guy who resigned as the sheriff in Milwaukee County to join the Trump administration as assistant secretary of Homeland Security.

Then it came out that he plagiarized his master’s thesis, so he couldn’t get approval.  Now that he stopped plagiarizing, he has become a twitter sensation.

Like this:

I really don’t know where to start.  First off, it’s “couldn’t care less.”  Could care less mean that he … well, he cares and he could do it less if he set his mind to it.

Second off, I do not know what your average Triple Crown winner thinks about leftist identity politics.  For all I know, they could be strongly in favor it.  I would need to see more evidence of Sheriff Clarke’s claim before I could pass judgment about a horse’s stand on political science.  They are notoriously closed mouthed about their philosophical standing.  However, I do know what a horse’s butt thinks about Donald Trump and if I forget, I can always call Clarke to remind myself.

Plus, there’s one other thing – George Soros is an owner in Justify. So, if Trump wants to invite Justify, I suspect Soros would come along. That would make sorting out the winners much easier.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Oh y’all, Fox News breathlessly announces Trump’s arrival in Singapore. It’s also an episode of Take Your Daughter to Work as Abby Huntsman, the daughter of Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, tries to one-up Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the Republican incompetence race.

Two dictators?  She did apologize, tweeted that she never claimed to be perfect and now we should move on to other more important things.  Like, who’s going to be the Ambassador to Florida.  Or what’s the speed of dark?

Bless his heart.  Just bless his little boy heart.

(Click the picture to see the big one.)

Notice that you can only see one of John Bolton’s hands?  The other one is up Trump’s puppet butt.

And what the hell is John Bolton saying to Macron? No wait, I do not even want to know.

Article I, Sec. 8 – 

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

The Founders established a balance of power that limited the power of the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial branches.  Until gerrymandering, the terminal cancer on democracy, the system worked well.  Now, the legislative branch is fossilized, full of ignorant, corrupt morons who see their only job as keeping their job.  In the House, the ruling party picks its constituents.  In the Senate, protections of the minority have been stripped away.  The resulting political Frankenstein is a Congress that literally does nothing, including setting international trade policy and war-making.  Because of this abrogation of constitutional authority, our entire governmental stability now depends on the character and basic decency of the person sitting in the Oval Office.

And then came Trump.  Because our system of government depends completely on the basic decency of the person occupying the office of president, as well as an adherence to over two centuries of tradition and custom, we’re not prepared to counter the actions of a president completely devoid of character and who is corrupt to the core. Combine that corruption with the abrogation of congressional authority, we are now completely exposed to the catastrophe that we witnessing today.  The President of the United States, unchecked by offsetting institutions, is actively undermining longstanding alliances, destroying trade relations among allies, and advocating alliance with our biggest enemy, Russia.

And ALL of these actions by Trump and his enablers are based on lies.  Our allies are NOT trading unfairly.  The markets among the major economic powers are open and free.  All trade agreements, at least before the regime of Cheeto Jesus, were openly negotiated.  Trump is poking our longstanding allies in the eye for no other reason than propping up the support of his ignorant, mouth-breathing, bigoted base.

If our members of Congress don’t stand up on their hind legs and stop this lunatic, he’s likely do set off a global trade war…FOR NO REASON.  Call your senator and congressman and tell them to stop screwing around and do their goddam job.  Our democracy depends on it.