Y’all, I think congress is making fun of Louie.

Louie loves, loves, loves his teevee time.  After the congress is finished with business on any given day, members are allowed to monopolize CSPAN and give lengthy speeches on any subject they please.  Louie does it every damn day.  The chamber is empty except for the cleaning crew but there’s Ole Louie, preaching to ghosts in the room.

Now his folks back home have no idea that Louie is speaking to an empty room and nobody in congress gives a big bear’s butt what he says, but the Nightly Louie Show plays big in his home district, where they think Louie is practically running congress and shaming them all with his Jesus talk and crazy ass jibber.

So damn ole Nancy Pelosi and her friends just ruined all the fun.

House Democrats have moved to limit the number of times an individual member can hold court on the House floor after the day’s votes: “The Chair will not recognize a Member for more than one special-order speech per week, nor may a Member sign up for a second special-order speech in the same week.”

So now The Louie Show is only weekly.  So sad, too bad.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

I think there might be some kind of imbalance going on right now among the Republican group-think.

I saw this on the Twitter where a guy was responding to the fact that Democrats who think SNAP benefits are a good idea —

First of all, Jesus did not say this.  He fed everybody with the fishes and loaves and did not ask for work in exchange.

The verse comes from Thessalonians, but that’s a whole ‘nother post.

It’s just odd that this poor guy didn’t get the message that lazy is good.

This is a headline from CNN.

I looked over his schedule.  Honey, I work more than he does and I’m retired.

They should not feed him dinner tonight.

A week ago, the Texas Secretary of State, who is appointed by the Governor, announced that 95,000 Texans who are registered to vote are not citizens.  There were cannons, waving flags, confetti, and all manner of hub bub accompanying this startling announcement.  Donald Trump even tweeted it.

They then turned these names over to the Texas Attorney General and sent the names to Texas counties so the counties could mail these people letters telling them that they had 30 days to come in and present proof they are citizens.

Now the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Governor’s office are quietly picking up the pieces of a press release shattered by buckshot.

The list was made by first obtaining a list of people who have applied for driver’s license and said they were non-citizens.  They took 22 years of those records and cross referenced them with people who are currently registered to vote.  Wow, 95,000!  Ain’t that somethin’?

Oh dear. They completely forgot that some of those people may have since become citizens but not told the Texas Department of Public Safety. They aren’t required to do so.

Texas naturalizes about 50,000 people a year.

And, they didn’t see if the names matched the right person. Nor did they prove these people had even voted.

The whole damn thing proved Republican leadership in this state is about as helpful as a dumpster possum.

Soon after, the citizenship review effort would buckle, revealing itself as a ham-handed exercise that threatened to jeopardize the votes of thousands of legitimate voters across the state. The secretary of state’s office would eventually walk back its initial findings after embarrassing errors in the data revealed that tens of thousands of the voters the state flagged were actually citizens. At least one lawsuit would be filed to halt the review, and others were likely in the pipeline. And a week into the review, no evidence of large-scale voter fraud would emerge.

Cameron County’s list went from 1,600 to 30, then it went back to about 1,200, and now it’s being looked at again. Sixty percent of Harris County’s was dropped within days. McLennan County was told never mind and their whole list was withdrawn.

In my county, 2 of the first 10 files reviewed by the county were people who filled out a voter registration form, clearly marked non-citizen, and had never voted. They never should have been on the voter roll in the first place but that’s the county’s fault, not the person who filled out the form.

How much egg do Republicans have to get on their faces to serve breakfast and shut the hell up?  Apparently, quite a lot.

New CNN polling shows that almost 7 in 10 say the federal government is doing a bad job of governing, including 43% who say it’s the worst job of governing in their lifetimes.

“That’s about double the share who said the same in early 1996 (21%) following a government shutdown that was the longest on record until last month. Just 19% say the federal government is doing a good job.”

Wait, wait.  “Just” 19% say the federal government is doing a good job.  Find those people and wake them the hell up.

Thelma thinks all 19% of the live in East Texas and are wearing MAGA hats to church.

You probably remember Ronny Jackson, the naval White House doctor who said that Trump was the healthiest president ever, with the most mental health ever, and the lowest cholesterol ever recorded in a human being. Immediately thereafter, Trump nominated Jackson to be a cabinet member as Veterans Affairs Secretary.

And immediately after that, it was revealed that Jackson did in fact know a whole lot about affairs, but not in the good way. Jackson faced a series of allegations including drinking on the job, overprescribing medications and creating a hostile work environment. Those allegations are still being investigated.

And now …

President Trump has re-nominated White House doctor Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson to be promoted to two-star admiral amid the Pentagon’s ongoing investigation into Jackson regarding alleged misconduct.

And yesterday Trump “named Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson as chief medical adviser and assistant to the president.”

Guess who has his next medical exam this Friday?  Guess who wants to be a known as a man who keeps his word if you’ll lie for him?

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.