Many of you have heard about Dan Crenshaw, Republican congressvarmint near the Houston area.  He’s the new rising star in the GOP.  And, seriously now, it’s because he’s handsome and has an eye patch from a war injury serving as a seal.  Personally he’s pretty much of a dick.

Right now, his big thing is that the United States should be able to sue China for giving us the Coronavirus. Yeah well, I hope the American Indians get a good lawyer.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen took notice of this a few days ago. There was an expenditure of close to $250,000 from the National Republican Congressional Committee for books. Alfredo and I wondered who they were trying to put on the best seller list.

Today, we found out.  Dan Crenshaw. They used his book to raise money for them and give him the royalties and the fame.

Politico says …

A PARTY OFFICIAL said the promotion raised the NRCC $1.5 million. A campaign filing made public Wednesday showed $240,800 of these purchases from Politics and Prose. The party official told us the remainder of the purchases totalling $394,800 will appear on the next campaign finance filing.

So that’s close to $400,000 toward royalties for Crenshaw. Nice.

And then oh Lord, Trump adds to the jackpot by tweeting about Crenshaw’s book.

… followed by a big ole gigantic picture of Crenshaw’s book.  And of course Trump can order his followers to buy the book because Office Government Ethics rules prohibiting federal employees from endorsing commercial products don’t apply to him and never have. It must be helpful to be able to bribe Members of Congress by tweet.

And let’s hope Crenshaw donates all of the royalties on the sale of those books to charity to avoid converting campaign funds to personal use. ‘Cuz he’s supposed to.

So go ahead and order yourself a copy of Crenshaw’s book.  You can eat a bowl of cereal and read his book one evening and go to bed with nothing on your stomach and nothing on your mind.

There’s breaking news in Texas that has all of us snickering.

Our former Lt. Governor Republican David Dewhurst just got beat up by his 40 year old “live-in”girlfriend.  She whacked him good.  She has been charged with injury to an elderly person.

From the DA’s Office: Caron is accused of kicking Dewhurst, 74, in the ribs during an argument on May 13. Dewhurst told police she left their home but came back on May 17 and kicked him in the ribs again. He said Caron also hit him with a pot, scratched him and bit him. Dewhurst went to the doctor and X-rays confirmed he had two broken ribs.

She was some kind of hacked-off.  Honey, that old man wasn’t dying fast enough to suit her.  It looks like she was going to visit him weekly and break another rib.

The couple in happier times.

This morning, Trump tweeted:

Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!..” read Trump’s original tweet.

Here’s the twist.  And, rogue? Really.

Yeah, Trump corrected his original tweet and never apologized.  Fake tweet.

Well, now we know there was more than we suspected that nasty ole Steve Linick, the inspector general, was messin’ his nose around that caused him to get fired.

First, “The now-fired State Department inspector general had recently wrapped up an investigation into two other top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, determining that they had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence.”

Yeah, workplace violence. Let’s keep that quiet.

Now add to that, the Madison Dinners using taxpayers money to promote a political career for Pompeo, using his government paid staff to run personal errands, and by the way, an $8 billion arms sale to the Saudis.  You know, not that we’re counting or anything.

Last night, Ole Bubba was shaking his head and said, “Those sumbitches think they can get around everything and the damnedest part of that is that they can.”

I kinda feel the same way sometime.

Annie Glenn, wife of astronaut and senator, John Glenn, died today at age 100.  Besides being the wife of an astronaut and senator, she also overcame a debilitating stutter and became a national advocate for the disabled.  She lived a long, full life.  What took her from us?  Coronavirus.

Fuck you, Donald Trump.  One more needless death of a great American by your gross negligence.