Republicans took Alan Dershowitz down to the river to baptize him.  They dunked him three times to get all the liberal off and then banged his head against a rock about five times too many.

After OJ, the man was a nobody.  Nobody cared what he thought or asked him to be on teevee.  OJ eventually went to jail and Dershowitz went to celebrity hell.  In my way of thinking, they both deserved what they got.

But, Dershowitz found his way back. He did a complete flip flop on what the Constitution says and now says the framers did not mean abuse of power to be an impeachable offense. Okay, if abuse of power is not impeachable, what the screaming hell is?

How does he explain this about-face?  When questioned about his current views as opposed to his opposite views during the Clinton impeachment, we get this.

“I am much more correct right now having done all the research.”

Nope. You cannot be “more correct.” You can be right or you can be wrong. This is not a multiple choice question. Going the opposite direction is not getting “more right.”

Dershowitz is 81 years old. He ain’t got a lot of study time left to spare.  Who’s to say that if he studies it for another 20 years, he won’t come full circle?

But I still respect him slightly more than I do Ken Starr. Ken Starr is just a law gigolo.

In Texas and several foreign states, there are three guys, all related, and all named pretty near the same.

Here’s the backstory:

 Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, who has run for president in the past as a Democrat, is running for president this year (including in the Texas primary) as a Republican. He also has run for Senate, simultaneously and unsuccessfully, in several of the several states.

His son, also Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, following in Dad’s footsteps, is among 18 candidates (including four who’ve dropped out) on this year’s Texas Democratic presidential primary ballot. I’ll let you decide whether either of the De La Fuentes is a rogue Roque.

So, it is possible, weirder things have happened, that we have a November election consisting of a Democrat named Rocky De La Fuente vs. a Republican named Rocky De La Fuente.

Daddy Rocky is also running for a congressional seat as a Republican in California.

But, it gets leaky here … Daddy Rocky has another kid, named Ricky.  Ricky De La Fuentes is running for congress in both California and Texas. States with lax residency laws will let you do that.  He’s running as a Democrat against his Dad in California and as a Democrat against no family member in Texas, which seems to take some of the sport out of it.

Glen Maxey puts a translation lid on it in the Austin American Statesman.

Political dynasty – hey, it couldn’t be worse than the Trump family.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Back when Ken Starr was trying to impeach Bill Clinton for getting a blow job, my Aunt Bessie was flabbergasted. “Of course he lied about sex,” Aunt Bessie proclaimed, “that’s what a southern gentleman does.”

Ken Starr and Friend

The next time I heard about Ken Starr, he had been named chancellor of Baylor University.  During his tenure, a scandal broke out.  Baylor went deeply into debt for a fancy new football stadium and drafted hot shot players right out of high school. Sounds like a plan, right?, because the hot shot players started winning and filling the expensive new stadium.

One small problem. Some of the best players began raping Baylor coeds.  In a 2017 lawsuit, victims suing the university alleged that from 2011 to 2014 at least 31 football players committed at least 52 rapes.  All the adults at Baylor refused to do anything about it.  They allowed it to continue.

The buck stops at Ken Starr’s desk.  I guess if Clinton had just been a football player instead of president.

So, today when I heard that Trump named Ken Starr to his defense team, I knew for a dead certain guaranteed fact that there is a pee-tape.

Mark my word – it’s real.  However, at this point, it may be the least disgusting thing that Trump has done.

Holy crap, y’all, they did a slideshow of the document dump from hell.

And if that’s not enough entertainment for the day, you’ve also got the whole Kevin McCarthy scrapbook montage.

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Anybody want to bet that  Matt Gaetz took the photo?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

UPDATE:  Wait! Wait! There’s more ….

Republicans efforts to stymie the Senate impeachment trial continued this week with Senate rules committee Roy Blunt announcing that access by the press will be severely restricted during proceedings and even excluded completely at times.  Blunt lied that these restrictions are the same as during the Clinton trial, but they’re not.  This is simply a continuing effort by Trump enablers to make a mockery of these proceedings including even trying to dismiss the charges before a trial even happens, keeping witnesses and documents out of evidence, and coordinating directly with Trump’s goons in the WH.  Cutting out the press?

It’s shameful, but not at all surprising.