Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Murdering Public Education, is completely ready to serve Trump.  She has experience at being unethical.

Devon and her education PAC owe $5.3 million in fines for breaking campaign finance laws in Ohio.  Her PAC campaigned for “school choice.”  That means she supports using tax dollars to corporatize education.

The PAC asked the commission whether it was allowed to contribute more than the $10,000 limit to an affiliate in Ohio. Even though the commission advised that such a move would be in violation of state law, All Children Matter proceeded to provide $870,000 to the Ohio outfit.

Laws, smaws, we don’t need no stinkin’ laws and we ain’t gonna pay the fines either. We are rich, white, privileged and own gold furniture.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

Last week, a national poll asked over 1,000 Americans who won the national vote and who won the electoral college.

Roughly a third of Americans think Trump won the popular vote.  However, the breakdown is almost exactly, okay, totally exactly what you suspected.

Respondents’ correct understanding of the popular vote depended a great deal on partisanship. A large fraction of Republicans — 52 percent — said Trump won the popular vote, compared with only 7 percent of Democrats and 24 percent of independents. Among Republicans without any college education, the share was even larger: 60 percent, compared with 37 percent of Republicans with a college degree.

Being an educated Republican helps make you smarter, but only about half the time.

Look, I know there’s “experts” out there who say I should not make fun of dumb Republicans.  There’s a difference between dumb and ignorant. Being dumb probably isn’t your fault. Being ignorant is 100% your own fault.  Well, and Fox news.

I wonder which one is Jeff Sessions?

Oh shuddup, you were thinking the same thing.

Thanks to BobbyJoe for the heads up.

There will be a live feed of all the DNC candidate by clicking here.   It was supposed to start at 2:30 but we’re running late.  https://m.facebook.com/TexasDemocraticParty

Ya’ll, I am at the SDEC meeting in Austin today.  This afternoon all five candidates for DNC chair will speak.  I’m headed to it because I want to hear what they plan to do about party building.

For the past 8 years the DNC has been a miserable disgusting failure at party building.  We have lost all the gains we made with Democratic governors and state houses.  What good does it do us to have the presidency when we lose both houses of congress for a stalemate and then face states with Republican governors and state house who won’t impliment programs we somehow manage to get passed?

The DNC doesn’t need tweaking.  It needs a bonfire. As we should have learned by now, dammit, money alone won’t win anything if you are spending that money with consultants who haven’t learned any new tricks since Elvis died.

I will take good notes but you probably won’t hear from me tonight because Ole Bubba and I are going to Marble Falls to see the Christmas lights.

Anna The Geek here. First of all, I really appreciate your patience and good humor in dealing with all the issues with the site. It’s been crazy. Really crazy. So here is an update.

I have put in a better but still a temporary fix to the comment issue. You will need to fill out your name AND email again. For now, it’s every time you comment. So disregard Juanita’s previous directives.

Some of you are not able to see the latest posts and/or comments. I am still working on that. For now, reload the page, try another computer, click on December 2016 archives.

Bluehost has been a very reliable, cheap, and easy to work with hosting provider until December 10 when they updated the server and had network issues and the wait times to talk to them started approaching 2 hour mark. I am willing to give them a benefit of a doubt for now. But you can be sure I am not exactly thrilled with this happening during the holidays and right before the Electoral College vote.

Again, thanks for your patience and kind words. You are absolutely the best.