I truly hope Mike Bloomberg will be asked about this tonight.

As far back as November of last year, Bloomberg has said he will release his tax returns if he runs (he hasn’t said for how many years), but it’s starting to sound familiar.

In late January, the LA Times reported that Bloomberg got an extension to release the returns until after Super Tuesday.

Billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg won’t have to publicly disclose his finances until late March, well after voters in more than a dozen states — including California — take to the polls on Super Tuesday.

That also includes Texas.

Now, here’s where you can trip on the carpet: Bloomberg said he would sell his company, but his own namesake newspaper got a little squishy today.

A spokesman for Bloomberg LP, Ty Trippet, said that Bloomberg hadn’t decided the future of his company yet.

“As Mike has said numerous times, if elected president in November, he would either place the company in a truly blind trust or sell it. Currently, we’re not for sale,” Trippet said.

Trippet said later that putting the company in a blind trust would be the first step in the process toward a sale.

That made me cringe.  I hadn’t heard the blind trust thing until today.

And the only mention of his tax returns is this —

“Mike Bloomberg will release his tax returns.”

When?  How many years? Hummm …. crickets.

I’ll be listening tonight.

Go on – try not to smile. You have to and you know it.

“One thing about my marriage is it’s never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse with him or her, So they wanna debate family values? Let’s debate family values. I’m ready.”

— Pete Buttigieg, quoted by Politico.

But at least he’s no longer the chief law enforcement officer of the whole damn country.  Trump stripped him of that title.

On the downside: Trump is tweeting this morning about the Logan Act (seemingly oblivious to Rudy Giuliani’s existence) and the Deep State.

I’ve just heard on the electric teevee that William Barr is “considering” resigning over Trump’s interference in the Justice Department.

So, Barr’s tail hairs are feeling the singe of hell’s fires.  From what folks are guessing this information was leaked … by Barr himself.

I guess today‘s pardon festival is so clearly restocking the swamp with slime that even Barr is getting comfortable.

I’ll see you guys late morning.

PS – an hours later, MSNBC announced that the Justice Department just tweeted that Barr “has no plans” to resign.

Head Up:  Roger Stone will get his sentence from the judge on Thursday but she will postpone the actual punishment pending his decision on a new trial.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson is not on Trump’s Christmas card list.  Trump has whined about her several times on Twitter.  According to him, she is so unfair. So. Unfair. Boohoo.

And … the hits just keep on coming.

I guess he’s testing his pardoning skills for the big ones.

Kellyanne Conway, the little wind-up yakkey doll of crazy butt language, had one that made me stop and think yesterday.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that while President Donald Trump “works hand in glove” with Attorney General William Barr, Trump never asked Barr to intervene in Roger Stone’s criminal case.

Hand in glove?  I mean, I could see hand in hand is probably what she was going for.  But, hand in glove has some strange visuals for me. Think puppet.  There ya go – hand in glove.

I dunno.  Maybe she told the truth without knowing it. When Barr said he couldn’t “do his job” if Trump kept twittering, the only thing that could possibly mean in the real world is that Trump has to quit announcing that he has his hand up Barr’s butt, and that it fits like a glove.

Today is the first day of early voting in Texas. I will vote today. I have come to believe that we live in dangerous but not unsurmoutable times.  We have some vitally important statewide judicial races that can change the corporate owned face of Texas. Please, please, do not vote blind in those races because we also have some real stinkers running.

I still do not know who is going to get my vote for president.   I’m leaning toward Elizabeth Warren.  About 85% of my friends are mad at me about it which tells me that she’ll get around 15%.  I wish Franklin Roosevelt was running. He’s not. And I’m pissed off about it.