Oh, singing in the key of Q.

The GOP talent pool is shallow and it’s shrinking.

Last year, Louie Gohmert fled a lawsuit asking a federal judge to reconfigure a post-Reconstruction law in order to give then-vice president Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

The lawsuit won the trifecta of loser, loser, oh crap I’m a loser again. First it was tossed by a federal district court, then an appeals court stomped on it, and lastly, the Supreme Court declined to even consider it.

Now comes the payback time.  A Washington, DeeCee, lawyer has filed ethics complaints on the three lawyers who filed the complain on Gohmert.

The lawsuit sought to overturn the votes of certified presidential electors by a series of false statements of fact and ludicrous arguments of law. Among other errors of important facts, the complaint asserted that on December 14, 2020, when the electors met in each state, “the State of Arizona (and several others) have appointed two competing slates of electors.”  See Exhibit 1, Complaint ¶ 4.

In fact, no state certified competing slates of electors.

Frivolous and Dangerous.  That’s not only Gohmert’s lawsuit, that’s his head.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Just as we figured, the Texas Power Scandal is growing, and it’s going to be as bad as we feared.  It turns out that the Abbott appointees to the PUC have been systematically undoing safety and reliability protocols put in place after the 2011 power grid failure.  In November of last year, the PUC unilaterally canceled the contract with the Texas Reliability Entity, the outside entity which had been monitoring compliance of Texas power grid since the FERC delegated congressional authority to a private non-profit corporation to monitor the national grid.  No entity replaced Texas RE, so no one was minding the store on compliance, winterizing, and reliability.

Even worse, the previous July, the PUC disbanded the Oversight and Enforcement Division, firing it’s chief attorney and reassigning the rest of the staff within the agency.  This committee had been charged with overseeing power providers’ operations and enforcing safety and reliability rules.

So, Greg Abbott, whose appointees had dismantled the PUC’s safety and compliance functions of Texas power producers, is now calling for heads to roll – the heads that he appointed himself.  I think he can start the rolling with his own.

I wonder if Moses is pissed off.

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My Governor.

And yes, he appointed the members of the ERCOT who he is now blaming for the Texas Ice Follies, trying to act like they are elected or something.

Mic check: Gov Abbott practicing sounding sincere #txlege #TexasBlackout pic.twitter.com/ZUyuQejJJ3

— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) February 25, 2021

And meanwhile, people who look at numbers for a reason, have discovered something interesting.

Click here and scroll to the last few pages to see how much your state representative got.