There’s so rarely any Democratic good news in Texas that we kinda set the dumpster on fire when we get some.

Today’s dumpster is Ted Cruz.

Even though Ted was cheating like sumbitch, Democratic senatorial candidate Beto O’Rouke more than doubled Cruz’s fundraising this quarter. Beto raised $10.4 million to Cruz’s $4 million.

And this becomes even more impressive when you consider that Beto takes no PAC money – not even a dime.

Also, Beto proposed a debate in Spanish between the two men. Cruz declined, saying he wasn’t all that secure in his Spanish speaking lying.

Hey, maybe Cruz will challenge Beto to a debate in Canadian.

Enjoy!

And please ignore commenter Mike Crowe. He’s got a crippling case of scrambled brain courtesy of Fox News, and he had a humorectomy a decade ago under George W.

He also has a crush on me and feels the need to call me by name enough to give up his secret.  That’s what I like to think anyway.

Paul Manafort is a doozy. He really is.

He’s a wind-up whine box with a pack of lawyers who seem perplexed about the whole idea of going to court.

So now, after complaining about being put in solitary – which, by the way, is probably so Putin can’t have him killed inside the jail – we come to be alerted that Manafort is being treated like a VIP.

“Among the unique privileges Manafort enjoys at the jail are a private, self-contained living unit, which is larger than other inmates’ units, his own bathroom and shower facility, his own personal telephone, and his own workspace to prepare for trial,” prosecutors said in their filing. “Manafort is also not required to wear a prison uniform. On the monitored prison phone calls, Manafort has mentioned that he is being treated like a ‘VIP.’”

And then get this:

Mueller’s team also notified the court that Manafort has apparently developed a “workaround” for sending emails from jail, which is forbidden at Warsaw, by reading and drafting messages on a separate laptop transported in and out of jail by his lawyers.

Well, that solves any problems in preparing for trial because his lawyers will be in jail with him.

By now you’ve seen this ….

But did you see Sarah Huckybooboo Sander’s explanation of the expression on John Kelly’s face?

Oh, I am so sure that was the problem.  Those continental breakfasts are such a ripoff.

The senate just approved a new member of the Department of Justice.

The Senate confirmed President Trump‘s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s Criminal Division despite concerns about his ties to a bank that has come under scrutiny by the FBI.

Senators voted 51-48 to approve Brian Benczkowski to be an assistant attorney general. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was the only Democratic senator to support the nomination.

Benczkowski has no criminal justice experience.  None.  He would not commit to recuse himself from Russia-related matters if confirmed.  He’s also very close friends with Jeff Sessions.

This crap makes me crazy.  And it makes me wonder how deep the Russian connection is and how the hell long has it been going on?

And I present proof.