This is giving me a headache the size of a 1956 Buick.

Does Donald Trump have dirt on Lindsey Graham that causes Graham to act like a bubble off plumb OR did John McCain have dirt on Lindsey that caused him to act semi-sane?

Graham is head of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he is giving free legal advice to a subpoenaed witness before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also headed by a Republican.  That’s screwed up, y’all.  That’s nothing more than attempting to belittle the very institution and political party that Graham has spent hid life trying to build.

Graham told Donald Junior to plead the Fifth when he testifies.  “Then,” explained Graham, “it’s all over.”

Ya think? Honey, pleading the Fifth doesn’t make it all over any more than Barr’s lies about Mueller’s report makes it all over.

He’s head of the damn judiciary committee and he’s giving advice like that?

So Graham is saying that what this country needs right now is more cover-up.

Yeah, that’ll do the trick.

Remember when Trump kept repeating the lie that Barack Obama was going to start a war with Iran to get re-elected in 2012?  Here it is:

Later, when he decided to run for the office, Trump released continuous Twitter salvos of all kinds of lies and taunts, but the Iran theme was a common one.

One thing we’ve learned from Trump (and other Republicans, BTW) is that when he accuses someone of doing something vile, he’s doing that very thing.  Now, with his polls in the tank and still going down, Trump is so desperate that he’ll try anything to get re-elected and stay out of jail for a while longer.  As we’ve discussed before, Trump is even trying to get impeached so he can cast himself as a “victim” of the big, bad, Democrats.  Since that’s not working, his next stunt is doing exactly what he accused Obama of doing – starting a war with Iran.  What’s really scary is that he’s got Iran hater, John Bolton, continually whispering in his ear achieve his ultimate dream of bombing the crap out of Iran.

Trump’s already moved a carrier battle group and Air Force bombers to the Middle East to “counter Iran’s threat”, and now, Bolton is pushing for deploying 120,000 US troops to the Middle East.  The drumbeats of war for politics are now being heard, even as Pompeo and Bolton whip up fears of Iran, just in time for the 2020 election.  The only real threat we have is allowing Trump another 4 years in the WH.

Okay, so remember that $20 million raised to build the wall?  You know, where people who love Trump donated their own money to build the ridiculous wall because we didn’t want to pay for something that doesn’t work.

Well, it appears we were right.  You cannot give Republicans money because they spend it on themselves.

Brian Kolfage is heading up the project and promised to have groundbreaking at the end of April.  So far, nothing. Nada. Nilch. Nope.

He ain’t the brightest light on the Christmas tree.  Explaining why they had selected a site to build their portion of the wall but haven’t had a groundbreaking, Kolfage said,“I wish I could name where it’s at, but we can’t name it because of the ACLU, these other liberal groups who want to sue us and impede our progress.”  Dude, we can impede your progress after you start and shut the whole thing down with one writ.

Rumor has it that he spent $1 million of the money on a yacht.  I’m thinking maybe his plan was to park it in the middle of the river to make it harder for people to swim around.

Happily, Kris Kobach and Steve Bannon are on his Board of Directors and I’m certain those two heros are keeping close watch on the books.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Okay, you get to be on the cutting edge of the NRA scandal that’s brewing.

The Wall Street Journal is having some big time fun with leaked documents they received about Wayne LaPierre’s spending habits.

Hey, don’t be picky – it’s pretty easy to spend $39K for clothes in one day.

Wayne LaPierre required the PR firm to pay nearly $14,000 to rent an apartment near the NRA’s headquarters for a summer intern named Megan Allen.

And NRA chatrooms are going crazy about it.

I dunno. Apparently those swan things don’t come cheap.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

File under “Tone Deaf to Tone Deafness”, Rudy Giuliani thought it would be a really good idea to go to Ukraine to dig for dirt on Hunter Biden, Joe’s youngest son, who has been on the board of Burisma, a Ukranian oil company.  He was also seeking out Ukranian prosecutors to urge them to launch investigations of the younger Biden.  Apparently, he was also seeking information about who in Ukraine may have spoken to Robert Mueller’s investigators.  You read that correctly; even after two years of investigations into Trump’s connections to the Russians and Ukrainians (and thousands of denials from Trumpland), Rudy Giuliani thought it would be a good idea to…wait for it…ask the Ukrainians for help in the 2020 election.

When word got out about the trip, the press pounced, causing a media storm, and the Dems piled on, shaming Rudy to the point where he cancelled the trip.  He attributed the cancellation to “spin” from the Dems, not to his own tone deafness and stupidity.

Ben Shapiro, right wing talker and all round smartass, got owned yesterday by BBC host Andrew Neil, who dared to ask Shapiro about his hypocrisy.  The interview was supposed to be an opportunity for Shapiro to plug his new volume of manure titled The Right Side of History, and ironically subtitled How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.  His entire premise is hilarious, because exactly zero of his assertions are neither reasoned of moral.

At 16 minutes it’s a long watch, but very entertaining.  If you want to get to the really good stuff, fast forward to about minute 11.  After Shapiro abruptly ended the interview, Neil got in one last shot saying, “…and thank you for showing that anger is not a part of American political discourse.”  LOL.