Thank you everybody – we know.

Oh Nancy, you should have added, “Bless his heart.”

Texas congressman Mike McCaul, a very pretty man with Rick Perry hair, married the daughter of the Clear Channel Communications owner and suddenly gained 50 IQ points in his own head.

McCaul is fine if you don’t get him off script. He is always fully scripted, and combed. Well, except for this morning when he was talking about Coronavirus.

“I don’t think it’s time to panic,” he insisted. “The risk is still low. To put it in perspective, we had 350 million cases of the flu this year alone in the United States and somewhere between 20,000 to 50,000 deaths.”

Oh My God! We had 350 million cases of the flu right here in the old ole US of A?

That right there alone is a damn good reason to panic.  The Census Bureau estimates the population of America to be 329 million, so if 350 million of them got flu, we have broken arithmetic. Don’t even think about fractions, double digit subtraction where you have to borrow twice, calculus, algebra, or the backwards countdown before you yell Blast Off! We broke it, apparently with the flu. The fact that we haven’t heard about is a giant faux media activity.

We may get to see Mueller’s papers after all.

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Tuesday that the Department of Justice must hand over grand jury materials from Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation to Congress.

It was a 2-1 decision.  Guess who said no.

Judge Thomas Griffith, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, concurred with Rogers, a Clinton appointee. The lone dissenter, Judge Neomi Rao, was appointed by President Trump.

Rao is a life long member of the Federalist Society, indoctrinated by the Koch Brothers, and holds very extreme views on the role of government.  Sadly, she is only 46 years old so she will be around for a long while.

Congresswart Matt Gaetz is on my giggle list this morning.

Remember last week when he said the Coronavirus was a hoax dreamed up by people who wanted to bring Trump down? That cute little prankster even wore a gas mask into congress to make fun of all us who believe in dubious things like “science” and “arithmetic.”

Well, and I feel real almost bad about smiling when I say this – but he’s self-quarantining after having been expose to the virus on Air Force One.  And odds are at least even that he gave it to Trump.

You know, it’s gotta be odd for Matt to prance around and spout how wonderful he is while wearing his pajamas and carefully styled hair.  I’m certain his family has moved to a hotel.

Typhoid Louie is still mixing around people in DeeCee.  As long as he stays on the GOP side of the aisle, we’re all happy.

Senate Republicans are whipping up yet another investigation over a fake issue, this time of Hunter Biden.  Risking stating the blatantly obvious, this investigation, like many others, is complete bullshit, and being timed to inflict maximum damage on Joe Biden, who is close to taking the nomination for president.  Elected officials’ kids used to be off limits, but Trump and and National Trump Party have shattered that norm, bringing to bear the full force of the federal government to persecute political rivals and their families.

Enter Mike Bloomberg (again).  Over the weekend on MSNBC, former Bloomberg campaign manager Tim O’Brien announced that if Republicans go after Hunter Biden, Bloomberg will use cash he had set aside for his campaign to go “scorched earth” against the Trump kids, exposing their legion of conflicts, nepotism, and illegal use of federal office to make profits.  The ads will go after profits being made by Trump’s hotels that are charging the Secret Service and foreign officials for stays and hospitality, Ivanka’s Chinese patents, and government paying for all the kids travel for private business.  The entertainment value should be huge, and will drive Trump crazy (er).

Finally someone has the resources to stand up to the Noise Machine in a flame war.  It should be epic.