This is so sweet that it’ll bring a tear to your eye.

The minute a federal judge ruled that congress had every right to see Trump’s financial records, his lawyers denounced it and promised …

Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s personal attorneys, said: “We will be filing a timely notice of appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.”

Do you want to know who is the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals?

Put down your coffee first.

Merrick Garland.

The case will be heard by a panel of three judges from that court, so that means that Garland will not necessarily hear the case, but he’s the head honcho there and I thought Mitch McConnell might want to know that.  And you, I thought you’d want to know.

Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.

Louie Gohmert responds —-

Louie.  Enough coffee, little buddy.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Okay, here’s some Monday morning math.

The Republican National Committee sure spends a whole lot of time and money with 1-800-GOT-JUNK.

From January – March of 2019, they report this.

If ya add all that up, you get about $6,300 just to haul off crap in a two month period.  That’s a lot of crap.

And they apparently didn’t get it all.  Because in March, they were still hauling crap off.

Now here’s the part that that made my ears perk up.

Did you know that 1-800-Got-Junk will come to your office and pick up computers that you want to get rid of?  They do – and they provide another very important service:

If you have sensitive data on your hard drive that you would like destroyed, you can ask us for a certificate of destruction.

That would be very helpful if you have to respond to multiple subpoenas.

So it may be the RNC that is “acid washing” its computers – not the Clintons.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Trump had a twit fit this morning.  The headline that came out of his blabbering fingers on his phone was this …

So Trump isn’t sold on this fair and balanced stuff. It’s Trump, Trump, Trump all day long or it’s fake media.

I think Pete Buttigieg’s interview really got under Trump’s skin because Pete says he doesn’t care what Trump says about him.

And then there’s this answer to Trump’s criticism from Fox’s own Bret Hume.

The ball is in your court, Trump.  Apparently, Fox is getting cold feet on their Orange Trumpious.

Okay, so now we know that Michael Flynn was contacted by a member of congress who was trying to keep him from cooperating with Mueller.

My heart says, please let it be Lindsey Graham.

My head knows it Devin Nunes.

My whole damn body says, “Why the damn hell hasn’t anybody been indicted over this?”

Next time, I’m just tellin’ ya, get me pointed special prosecutor.  I believe that you can indict the president because nobody – not even the president – is above the law.

Okay, since Trump and Bolton are fighting each other over where and when we go to war, I was a tad disturbed that the Pentagon had not held a daily press briefing in a full year.  Yep, May 18th of 2018 was the last Pentagon daily press briefing.

So, yesterday they finally held a daily press briefing, which is now the yearly press briefing.  And to show their respect for the press and the American people, they went all out.

As the frontman of KISS, Gene Simmons occupies rarefied air — a rock star who entertains arenas filled with adoring fans. On Thursday, Simmons joined another exclusive club, conducting only the second on-camera press briefing at the Department of Defense in the last year.

To uphold the proper seriousness of the event, Simmons did not wear his usual make-up.  However, I don’t see how that would have made a difference.

And this is where we’re at.

Thanks to P.P. for the heads up.