We’ve been through a year of darkness, so I found an upside to Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation:  You don’t have to set your clock back this weekend.  She’s doing that for us.

Except like years and years and years backward.

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A cute little tweet last night from the House Judiciary Committee.

So the rush to approve her on Monday was so that the boys on the committee could give the confirmation as a birthday gift to Hillary Clinton.

I’m sure that the lowest level of silliness goes the Jim Jordan, but there’s plenty of room to add the wit and wisdom of Louie Gohmert.

Bad winners are going to make horrible losers. So, prepare yourself.

One other question – are they so obsessed with Hillary Clinton that they would publicly cut off their own winkies just to jab her? Because, Honey, that’s what they just did.

Holy cow!  A dozen senate seats are in play?  I’d be happy with 5.

While Republican Senate seats in Maine, Colorado, North Carolina and Arizona already appear to be lost causes for the GOP leadership, Politico’s James Arkin reported that more GOP senators are finding themselves “scrambling” in more states than the party had planned for.

“Republicans are scrambling resources into red and purple states alike — from Kansas and South Carolina to Iowa and North Carolina — cutting down Democrats’ massive financial edge and hoping for a late-breaking turn in their favor, similar to four years ago.

Okay, we have two jittery seats.

Let me tell you how great this is.  Kamala is coming to my county – just a couple of miles from Tom DeLay’s home district – this Friday.  I’m not going but lots of my friends are.  They have promised iPhone movies!

I’m not celebrating yet but I am just tickled pink that a dozen Republican seats are in play.

It was just a matter of time ….

Haines City police say 26-year-old James Blight – yeah, his name is Blight – stole a bulldozer from a construction site and proceeded to ride his happy butt through Haines City, tearing down Biden signs and even running down a taxpayer owned speed limit sign.  You’d think violating the city speed limits is probably the last of his worries in a damn bulldozer.  He’s apparently a fan of the anarchy crowd, too.

He been charged with grand theft auto because they apparently do not have grand theft bulldozer in Florida, which is a wonder because it’s Florida.

So, if Trump loses Florida he can blame it on the bulldozer guy for his bad choice of vehicles for the job. Everybody knows you steal a backhoe for a delicate job like that.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Another treat from Nick Caraway

If I’ve learned anything about hanging out with the Buchanon’s it is that they are experts at the self-own. There is no better self-own than the joke at someone else’s expense. They sounds so smart and so smug. What they don’t realize is that this joke ends up making them look bad in the end.

We saw the following on Twitter right after the debate. “Did @realDonaldTrump

just say 545 kids they can’t find their parents for came over through “cartels and coyotes”?! How the hell does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?! Lord—–stop talking. #FinalDebate“

Of course, conservative twitter and those on social media couldn’t resist the temptation. The struck on the representative’s naïve nature and pounced. Seems she didn’t know that coyotes referred to drug smugglers. It was a general theme from the night. Trump played the Fox News greatest hits while most of America was puzzled.

Conservative folks got a cheap laugh out of that picture. I have to admit it was funny. The problem is that the joke is on them. Most people pay enough attention to know that those 545 kids were separated from their parents. They weren’t smugglers, coyotes, or very bad people. They just wanted a better life for themselves and their children.

So, maybe they got a cheap laugh. They also showed their true colors. We always knew these folks. We knew what they were all about. The few undecideds know too. It might be too much to hope that a few people will be turned off by the president and these cheap jokes. It’s one of the main reasons I left New York in the first place.”

Headlines all over the place: Trump’s chief of staff says “we are not going to control the pandemic.”

No shoot, Sherlock.  Mark Meadows is flying the white flag on his beanie cap today. He gives up.

But, he goes back to the flu …

Pressed by Tapper on why the US isn’t going to get the pandemic under control, Meadows said: “Because it is a contagious virus just like the flu.” He added that the Trump administration is “making efforts to contain it.”

Let’s quit calling it the flu. It is not the flu. It’s more like leprosy, except more deadly.  How come everybody in the world has it more under control than we do?

Now we find out that five members of Mike Pence’s  staff is sick with it.