Senator Tim Kaine says that he may have as many as a dozen Republican votes to support his attempt to “curtail President Trump’s ability to go to war with Iran, thanks to the reportedly disastrous security briefing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave legislators last week.”

Kaine says it may be more. Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee thinks it’s more like 7 votes. We only need four, or more likely 5 because nobody wants to be left depending on Susan Collins, who has become Lucy with a football when it comes to doing the right thing.

By the way, after hearing about Pompeo’s secret briefing, I understand why there’s no press conferences any more.  There’s no Sean Spicer who’s willing to lie and take the fall for looking like a damnfool.  That’s what it has come to.

AlterNet says that some pranksters posted this sign at their local military enlistment center.

The tag line reminded me of something.  Trump likes to says that the people he kills die “like cowards.”

Well, there’s this.  After saying he looks forward to a fair trial and complete vindication, Trump is now saying he wants the Senate to vote to dismiss the impeachment the minute they get it.  No hearing, no opening statements, no diddle squat.  That.  That right there. That’s a coward.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up on the poster.

Back a couple of years ago, I told you about a guy named Paul Chabot, who recently moved from California to Texas because he kept losing political races in California.  Then he came up with a bright idea. Get conservative Californians to move to Texas to keep Texas red.  Okay, maybe “bright idea” isn’t exactly the term I’m looking for.

Chabot opened a SuperPAC called Keep Texas Red.

So, instead of bright idea, perhaps I should say money making project. Read all about it here.

Through the miracle of modern journalism, a guy named Ron was searching for information about a name he saw in the local newspaper.  Sure ‘nuf, he ended up at the beauty salon and was kind enough to match the two together and send it to me.

Paul Chabot has a new money-making project going. This one involves your money.

The FreeStyle Foundation in McKinney, a national nonprofit that supports substance-free living, received $625,000 in federal grants from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, according to a Jan. 13 news release from Sen. John Cornyn’s office.

In addition, the nonprofit’s local branch, The Coalition for McKinney Drug Free Youth, received $1 million from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.

Now, if you look at Chabot Strategies and then at The FreeStyle Foundation, you’ll discover that they have homemade websites that are clearly at least first cousins.  Chabot Strategies is located at Keller-Williams Realty (that was back when he was trying to sell houses to Californians) and The FreeStyle Foundation is a post office box storefront less than three miles away.

It’s just one easy slide from using politics to sell houses to using political connections to sell scams with taxpayers dollars.

Chabot said the coalition will be advocating for a local Social Host Ordinance. This ordinance would hold party hosts liable for knowingly providing alcohol to minors on their property.

With this ordinance in place, parents and property owners would be discouraged from allowing minors to consume alcohol on their properties, Chabot said.

There are already laws against giving alcohol to minors so his job shouldn’t be, you know, all that hard.  I dunno ’bout you but I’d rather go with a law than an ordinance.

So thanks to John Cornyn for pissing away $1.6 million of taxpayer money.

Thanks to Ron for the heads up.

Since we all know that Russia prefers Trump to any other US president (since Putin said so on global television) it’s not a surprise that Russian military hackers got into the systems of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where Hunter Biden was on the board of directors for a few years.  Ignoring the stupidity of Hunter’s taking of that job, there is no evidence of wrongdoing by him or his father, but that didn’t stop the Russians from doing the job that Trump extorted Zelensky to perform, the move that drew an impeachment action against him.

The effort started in November just as the impeachment inquiry started in the House and Trump began frantically trying to discredit it.  Using phishing and spearphishing tactics (just like in 2016) the Russian GRU has been bombarding Burisma email accounts and have successfully stolen email credentials to get inside of the company.

The super frustrating thing about all of this illegal activity is not only Trump’s acceptance of it, but his encouragement for it to continue.  When is enough enough for Republicans?

Just a few of Trump’s tweets in the past 10 hours —

Bully.

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Fool.

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Hater

Somebody, please, send him to his room.

Somehow, they always end up breaking my heart.

I’m speechless.