“Resistance is not futile.”  A great read from Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the Red Hen Restaurant who asked Sarah Sanders to leave.

Bill Barr, Attorney General In Name Only, has assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation.

Little by little we are getting the answer to Kamala Harris’s question to Barr about who did Trump ask you to investigate?

His inquiry is the third known investigation focused on the opening of an F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign into possible ties between Russia’s election interference and Trump associates.

The department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is separately examining investigators’ use of wiretap applications and informants and whether any political bias against Mr. Trump influenced investigative decisions. And John W. Huber, the United States attorney in Utah, has been reviewing aspects of the Russia investigation. His findings have not been announced.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but who is going to investigate these guys?

Okay, so come to find out, the NRA didn’t disclose the $250,000 it spent lobbying in Florida in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.

The NRA paid a Florida lobbyist, Marion Hammer, to fight gun control and lobby the legislature after the massacre, but didn’t report it.

There were additional payments. NRA tax returns show that Hammer received $147,000 in 2014, $172,000 in 2015 and $206,000 in 2016. The total: $525,000. For each of those years, the NRA reported she worked an average of five hours per week. None of it was reported to state lobbyist regulators.

She works half a day a week and makes three figures?  I need that job, y’all, and if it wasn’t for the selling your soul part, I’d apply for it.

Somebody get some marshmallows and sticks because the NRA is gonna burn itself up.

Yeah, that just makes my day.

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.