Steve Stockman used to be our favorite crazy East Texas Congressman until he got beat and Louie Gohmert blossomed forth as Texas Crazy Proud.

I used to write about him a lot because it was easy.  Bless his heart, he even went missing for a while.

As I told you last week, Stockman finally got his due.  But there’s a cherry on top.

It’s a 28 count indictment and his former aide, the particularly sleazy Jason Posey, was indicted to.  Here’s the cherry.

According to the indictment, from May 2010 to October 2014, Stockman sought out about $1.25 million in donations based on false pretenses. Over those years, Stockman allegedly diverted part of that sum for personal and campaign expenses — including to fund what the U.S. Department of Justice described as “a covert surveillance project targeting a perceived political opponent.”

I thought it was just converting campaign contributions to personal use, but no.  It’s a million dollars.  He’s going to jail. You might get probation for misusing a hundred grand in campaign donations but … a million dollars from charity?  Nope, you’re going to jail.

As far back as 2013, it all looked suspicious.

But Stockman maintains that he’s pure as Ivory soap and just as white.  What’s his alibi?

Stockman has said he will be vindicated in the case. He initially blamed his arrest on the “deep state,” a term used to describe political adversaries in the federal bureaucracy that has gained prominence under President Donald Trump. His lawyers have since distanced themselves from that claim.

Yep, the deep state was out to get a congressman who had his campaign headquarters in an abandoned building.  Seriously, you gotta look for yourself. That’s  his campaign headquarters over to the right.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Regular customers know that the only thing I like better than politics is baseball.  I flat love baseball.

Well, the current occupant of the White House is breaking a 100 year tradition of presidents throwing out the first pitch of the season. He turned down the opportunity to throw out the first pitch for the Nationals.

He’s claiming he has a scheduling conflict.  I doubt that. He doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t have a schedule. Jared Kutcher has a schedule. Trump does not.

Here’s what everybody thinks.  He got 4% of the vote in Washington, Dee Cee.  His approval rating is now 36% nationwide.  He would be booed at the ballpark and his precious little snowflake ego couldn’t take that. Maybe he could wear his red baseball cap and make everybody laugh. The man needs guts lessons from April Ryan.

Or maybe the problem is that the only thing he can throw is a fit.

Holy damn crap.

The Washington Post.

House Republicans voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to repeal a set of landmark privacy protections for Web users, issuing a sweeping rebuke of Internet policies enacted under the Obama administration. It also marks a sharp, partisan pivot toward letting Internet providers collect and sell their customers’ Web browsing history, location information, health data and other personal details.

… it appears that Sean Spicer lied, lied, lied at today’s press conference.

Spicer said the Washington Post story was untrue and that the White House did not try to put any roadblocks to Sally Yates’ testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.

The Washington Post responds —

Here ya go, Buddy.  The actual documents.

Also of note, I just love watching April Ryan get under Sean Spicer’s skin.  Today he told her not to shake her head.  Oh no, that’s not real wise.  She is going to get up out of that chair and slap that silly boy upside the head one day and I do not want to miss that!

Y’all, Nunes has to put some hard ridden miles between himself and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Now.

The Washington Post says they now know why Trump panicked last night and starting tweeting about Hillary.

The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying to Congress in the House investigation of links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Washington Post has learned, a position that is likely to further anger Democrats who have accused Republicans of trying to damage the inquiry.

Trump claims he has presidential communications privilege over Yates’ expected testimony that disagrees sharply with what White House officials are claiming.  Uh, no. Honey, if John Dean can testify against Nixon, Yates can testify against Trump.

So now Nunes canceling the open hearing is starting to make a whole lot of sense.  To crooks.  It makes a lot of sense to crooks.

I gotta tell ya, maybe Nunes can talk water into a boil at twenty paces, but it’s just bubbles. There ain’t nothing there other than bubbles. His explanation of what happened on the grounds of the White House has more twists than a pretzel factory.

I saw that he went on Bill O’Reilly yesterday and said that of course the Democrats want him to step down because “they are afraid of me.”  Honey, your own momma is afraid of you but it’s because you’re dumb, and dumb people do crazy things.  You are only scary because you are dumb crazy and so madly in love with Donald Trump that even Ivanka is jealous.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Several customers have pointed out to me that past presidents all the way back to Reagan have had Czars.  You know, Drug Czar, TARP Czar, Cyber Security Czar, Homeland Security Czar …

Why is it that Donald Trump doesn’t have a Czar?

I dunno.  Maybe he is gonna have comrades instead.

I hope somebody has taught him the word proletariat because an upraising seems imminent once his supporters realize they’ve been screwed, glued, and tattooed.