It’s never difficult to tell the difference between guts and gall.

Please listen to Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker take credit for passing the restaurant aid in the bill.

One bright spot from this week’s budget package is the $28.6 billion in targeted support for restaurants that have been hit hard by the pandemic. @SenSinema and my RESTAURANTS Act was the first amendment added to the package. @RestaurantsAct @werrestaurants @IndpRestaurants pic.twitter.com/XzSc3oR7ik

— Senator Roger Wicker (@SenatorWicker) March 10, 2021

It’s just like Speaker Pelosi said, “They say no and then take the dough.”

His excuse?

“I’m not going to vote for $1.9 trillion just because it has a couple of good provisions.”

Hey, Skippy, that’s what governing means.  You get nothing 100% your way.  I know for a dead solid guaranteed actual damn fact that some Democrats voted for the Trump relief plan while not liking 100% of it.

There’s a saying in Texas that the only reason Texas doesn’t slide into the Gulf of Mexico is because Oklahoma sucks.  Republican State Representative Brad Boles of Oklahoma ain’t helping much.

He’s all worked up over an abortion bill and he forgot to use his Republican outside voice.

Thanks to Keith for the heads up and his comment, “It is almost as if this chucklehead is auditioning to be a member of the British royal family.”

Yep.

Susan Rice now occupies the office that formerly occupied by – brrrr shiver shiver – Stephen Miller.

Everyone was reminded of that when a picture taken inside her office was posted on Twitter and there was clearly sage burning in a small bowl.

Somebody let her know that we can get her the toe of a frog and the eye of a newt if we can get the Gingrichs to stand still for a minute.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Lindsey Graham admitted that Trump has a dark side, but Graham says he stays around Trump to try to “harness the magic” that makes Trump able to succeed where others like John McCain and Mitt Romney have failed.

“The magic is racism.”

— Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher, in an interview on MSNBC

Well, there ya go.

Because Republicans in the Texas State House are 100% pro-life, they have come up with a solution for women who have an abortion – kill her.

A Texas lawmaker has filed a bill that would abolish and criminalize abortions, leaving women and physicians who perform the procedure to face criminal charges that could carry the death penalty.

The legislation, filed Tuesday by state Rep. Bryan Slaton, does not include exceptions for rape or incest.

The whole thing makes me want to throw up, but the second paragraph sends chills down my spine.  This is not about life, this is about ownership.

This won’t pass, but the fact that 20 Republicans voted for it the last time it came up, tells me that there are 20 men in the Texas State House who think I’m a baby machine and nothing more. Y’all, can we make stupid on government property illegal?  Come to think of it, that would solve a whole mess of problems.

Our local Republicans are all glittery and jittery because they are going to be able to have their annual Lincoln / Reagan Day Dinner on April 9th at the Safari Ballroom, thanks to Greg Abbott opening Texas.  Tickets start at $150 per person and go to $10,000.

It’s their big annual fundraiser so they schedule the best speakers they can get. Which ain’t much because the county flipped blue under the unable leadership of the guy who just got elected to the state legislature.

Yeah, the best speakers they could get are Ted Cancun Cruz and Felony Indicted Ken Paxton.  I guess they were going for a Duo of Dopes theme.  They might get real lucky since Paxton is currently under investigation for hanky panky that caused his entire senior staff to resign, he might be double indicted by April 9th.

Seriously, that’s the best they could do.

I guess we can always hope for an enchanting evening of insurrectionist storming the ballroom and stabbing a couple of cops with American flags on flag polls.

The upside is a whole room filled with people crowded together not wearing masks and spitting on each  My money is on Darwin winning.