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Attorney General William Barr has agreed to give testimony before the House Judiciary Committee next month amid growing questions over the administration’s alleged interference in the criminal case of a close ally of President Trump.

The Judiciary Committee has become concerned about Trump’s interference in the Stone case and why the hell Rudy Giuliani reports directly to Barr about Giuliani’s own private investigations.

Oh Lord, it’s Jim Jordan, Louie Gohmert, and Matt Gaetz – we’re all gonna die.

Democrats need to let Zoe Lufgren take over as chairman of the committee.  Jerry Nadler is a nice guy but he has way too much on his plate right now.

We’re getting to keep our grandbaby this weekend to try to lighten all the darkness in our hearts.

But, if you’re not ready for that, Texas is here to help.

Two Texas zoos are ready to help you with every passive-aggressive instinct you’ve ever had.

The San Antonio Zoo and the El Paso Zoo are both running campaigns through Valentine’s Day to dedicate a cockroach after an ex and have it fed to an animal.

The El Paso event is free, but donations are suggested, while San Antonio’s costs $5 per roach.

The best part? You don’t have to live in either city. Both zoos are offering the chance for people to see all the munching action on their social media streams.

If you’re feeling particularly in need of releasing some of your worst thoughts, you can name a rat after Mitch McConnell and have it feed to a snake named Donald Trump.  Okay, I’m lying about the snake being named Trump but you can have a pre-frozen defrosted rat fed to a snake for $25.

Their names (downer: first names only) will be posted on the zoo’s website.  But, you could email Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and have them look for their names.

This is just another friendly free service of your beauty salon.

Roger Stone is going to prison unless Donald Trump dusts off his magic wand and practices forgiveness.

He was sentenced to 87 months to 108 months in prison.  Federal Courts use months instead of years for two reasons: (1) to confuse the hell outta reporters who can’t do math in their heads, and (2) they actually tried to use days so their legal fees won’t seem inflated.

That’s 7 to 9 years, 364 to 468 weeks, or 2,555 to 3,285 days plus a couple of leap year days thrown in.

That’s not long enough. Roger Stone is 67 years old. He’s apt to live another 20 years. We do not need a man with a Richard Nixon tattoo living among us again because he didn’t contribute anything the first time.  Am I right?

UPDATE:  This just in from CNN

The Justice Department will backtrack on its request that longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone get up to nine years in prison, a senior department official said Tuesday, contradicting its own federal prosecutors in a highly unusual and politically charged move.

WHY?

 … that sentencing recommendation, transmitted to a judge and signed off on by the office’s top prosecutor, had not been communicated to leadership at the Justice Department.

Yep, just gotta rub our noses in it.  This is Trump Justice.

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE.  This just in from CNN

A Justice Department prosecutor who asked a judge to sentence Roger Stone to between seven to nine years in prison has withdrawn from the former Trump aide’s case after reports that officials would seek to reduce the sentencing recommendation.

The withdrawal by prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky on Tuesday came after the initial sentencing guidance was sharply criticized by President Trump, raising questions about potential political interference in the sentencing of Stone. Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress and witness tampering .

Oh good lord, Trump just broke the justice system.  Hell, and he did it before nap time.

Last weekend the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee, the elected body that controls the internal governance of the state party, went all Mardi Gras on Mitt Romney’s ass.

They passed a censure resolution saying that Mitt Romney was being mean to poor, defenseless, picked-on Donald Trump.  Yeah, the same Louisiana Republican Party who refused to censure David Duke.

Now here’s the cup of crazy in the gumbo: the resolution was written before Romney voted for impeaching Trump.  If they’d known he was going to do that, I suspect they’d replace language like …

with, “he’s a butt face.”  Oh, give me a break, they are only about 6 people in all of Louisiana who know what egregious, rhetoric or belligerent even mean, and exactly none of them were at the Republican convention.

It passed with a voice vote.  They were drunk and showing people their ta-tas.

Okay, already there’s talk.

I dunno – we usually get our act together by mid summer.  However, I think people missed part of the process last time and aren’t anxious to coronate anyone.  I would not count on a floor fight because the Super Delegates kept just enough power to win.  They gave away just enough power to make it a landslide.

I’m not anxious for a fight in Texas.   When I was younger, it didn’t bother me at all.  Hell, I even wrote about it.

I think I’ve grown weary of all the whining and finger pointing.  Honey, we Democrats can nurse a grudge back from the dead and carry it around for fifty more years.  Speaking of which, I used to have a bumper sticker that said, “I don’t care if Nixon is dead, I still want him impeached.”  I guess that’s not funny now, considering that Bob Barr is trying like hell to find a way to retroactively impeach President Obama.

I think there’s a pretty good chance that the Texas caucus and state convention will be brokered, because it was in 2008.  That might be fun. But a brokered national convention? Not so much.