You guys remember Yachting Randy Neugebauer – the west Texas congressman we love around here.  Randy bought a yacht with his campaign funds which is kinda strange since he lives in the desert, was the guy who chewed out the national park service ranger on tv for doing her job during the government shutdown that he voted for, yelled “baby killer” at a Democratic congressman during a debate, and called US border detention centers the lap of lovely, and a whole mess of other stuff including how the hell did his son, Toby, become a billionaire.

Children at a border detention center.

Randy retired from congress but he’s baaaaack.

Donald Trump is considering Randy to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren’s old job.  Did you hear me? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Why aren’t you hollering and stomping?

Hell, people, you could not trust that guy with a dime.  He will steal the gold out of your teeth.  Plus, he’s crazier than an internationally syndicated Donald Trump tweet.  He’s got loco camped out in his eyeballs.

Serving as a watchdog over the financial marketplace, the agency has returned nearly $12 billion to 27 million consumers who have fallen victim to predator scams, stemming from more than a million consumer complaints.

Republicans in Congress have regularly complained about the agency because they claim it unfairly targets small businesses without effective oversight, and some have sought to eliminate it.

Well, putting Randy is charge will certainly eliminate it.

Excuse me while I go put some ice on my forehead after I banged it on the table.

The FEC has 250 pages of questions/possible violations to Trump’s campaign about how he financed it.

That may be some kind of world record.

Apparently Donald did not get the best and the smartest people to do his paperwork and run his campaign.  He promised he would and I believed him, didn’t you?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Y’all – it’s OutSmart time.  Enjoy.

Barack failed to close it, but maybe that’s a good thing.

JUST off the top of my head; JUST with what we’ve heard in the last week or so, the scorecard now stands at:

Perjury to Congress, treason, theft of intellectual property, violation of various federal laws regarding sanctions and trade, fraud, election tampering, civil rights violations, misprision of felony, bribery, accepting stolen data, violation of the emoluments clause and ethics laws, domestic and corporate espionage and conspiracy to commit all of the above.

For all this and probably much more, Dat Guy, his minions, his children, his appointees, and many of his fellow Republicans should be charged under RICO statutes, tried and sentenced, and then all sent to America’s Elba, Guantanamo Bay.

Orange is the New Orange

You know, during James Comey’s hearing when he was asked if there was an investigation of Trump’s connections to Russia and he replied that the FBI never says whether or not there is an investigation, irony grew hair on it’s chest and melted through ten feet of hard Texas clay.

So, it can be nothing but good news that the Justice Department’s Inspector General will launch a probe into the behavior of the Justice Department and the FBI over the release of Comey’s investigation.

The probe, which comes in response to requests from numerous chairmen and ranking members of congressional oversight committees, will look into allegations that Director James B. Comey broke bureau policy with his various public disclosures regarding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

This might be fun.

The federal case against Texas AG Ken Paxton for securities fraud was put in hold when a judge pitched it out last year, but the Security and Exchange Commission refiled it.

However, he has three pending criminal cases in Texas and his days of postponing judgement day has run out.

Just hours ago, we learned that Paxton will go to trial on the state charges on May 1st.  Jury selection will be in mid to late April.  All this is right in the middle of the legislative session and when people are starting to file to run against him.

In the criminal case, Paxton faces three felony charges of breaking Texas securities law. If convicted, he could be sent to prison for five to 99 years.

Last year, Paxton exhausted his options in trying to put an end to the criminal case. The final blow came in October, when Texas’ highest criminal court declined to hear a Paxton appeal.

Miss Karma is in the green room filing her nails and considering her options. That makes me so happy.