The Washington Post says that Rod Rosenstein is going to the White House this morning to offer his resignation.

Rosenstein is poopie del pollo.  If he is serious about protecting the Mueller investigation, he would sit still and wait to be fired – just like Jeff Session is doing.

I’m hoping this is just more crap from Trump’s blabber, because if Rosenstein resigns before Mueller finishes his investigation, you can bet that Jared will be the new director of the FBI.

UPDATE:  No quitting, no firing, It’s just a normal day in America.  No crisis until Thursday.   Here ya go.

Okay, so there’s this new book coming out that explains …

In two hundred and twenty-four pages of extremely dry prose, with four appendixes of charts and graphs and fifty-four pages of footnotes, Jamieson makes a strong case that, in 2016, “Russian masterminds” pulled off a technological and political coup. Moreover, she concludes, the American media “inadvertently helped them achieve their goals.”

I spent the whole damn morning reading this article in the New Yorker.  Yeah, I read the whole thing and it scares the beejesus out of me.  I know the term “Russian masterminds” sounds like something you’d hear on shortwave radio, but damn, y’all, this is the science part of political science.

You might want to at least skim over it and see that the Russians didn’t have to hack the voter files.  They hacked voter minds.  And they did it the way we teach people to canvass voters. Nothing helps get out voters better than being contacted by someone people identify with or know personally.

Remember how weird it was when Mark Zuckerberg suddenly started touring the country and dropping hints that he’s running for president last summer?  Zuckerberg has the keys to the kingdom and is likely to have proof of any coordination between the White House and the Russians.  My theory: Zuckerberg knows how it works and had a sudden brief thought that he could get elected president by using Facebook.

I need to go read something funny because I am creeped-out by this.

UPDATE:

Okay, I found it.

It made me laugh.  Russian teevee is defending the size of Trump’s … uh, little hands.

More fun stuff here.

Starting about Wednesday of last week, Little Bubba began telling me that something was going to break on Sunday night about Kavanaugh.

He was right.

Remember how those drooling old codgers, Chuck Grassley and Orin Hatch got up on their hind legs and  threatened to ram this through on Monday?  That’s because they knew about it last week – around Wednesday.

They knew this guy was defective, but saving Donald Trump was was more important than having a pervert who probably lies and surely has a gambling and drinking problem on the Supreme Court for the next 30 years.

I hate Republicans, y’all.  I just hate them.

We were at dinner with Little Bubba and Mrs. Little Bubba when this broke.  He paid the mariachis to sing a few songs and ordered Margaritas for the table.

Grassley must be writhing on the floor.

UPDATE:  Avanetti says there are other women and witnesses.

Watch this to the end.  Trust me.

https://youtu.be/IZuayQFD51w

Anyone paying attention knows that SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a radical partisan activist who’s main job has been installing radical partisans in judicial positions throughout the federal court system.  We also know the he lives on the teetering far right edge of judicial thought, supporting a totalitarian executive branch (only if a Republican is running that branch).  The character trait that is emerging, though, is one that many male politicians own, and that is obsession with sex.  His radical obsession with controlling women’s healthcare decisions to keeping them subjugated to unfair employment and pay practices, his singular focus on dominating the female members of our society is clear.  But apparently it’s worse than that.  Not only is he all of the above, apparently he’s a real shitbag.  Dr. Blasey Ford’s charges of attempted rape are credible (especially since Kavanaugh’s male friends have sudden cases of amnesia), but now the pattern of his misogyny is becoming more clear.

But before we talk about new revelations about Kavanaugh, let’s talk about his spokesman who has been carefully crafting the messaging about his image to the press.  Said spokesman’s name is Garrett Ventry, who is (was) a communications aide to the Senate Judiciary Committee and chair, Chuck Grassley.  Well, Garrett was shown the door yesterday after NBC News started asking questions about allegations about…wait for it…sexual harassment made by female staff when he worked for the North Carolina House Majority leader at the North Carolina General Assembly.  Not only were there allegations against him about sexual harassment, he also apparently “embellished” his resume.  He was canned from that job.  Nice.

Anyhoo, back to Kavanaugh.  Late this week, stories started emerging about how Kavanaugh insists that his female clerks “look like models” and now the Dean of Yale Law has called allegations about a faculty member grooming female candidates’ appearance for clerkships in Kavanaugh’s office “…of enormous concern to me and to the School.”

GOP Senators have leapt to Kavanaugh’s defense, saying that if he really was a sexual predator that the pattern of behavior would have followed him throughout his career.  Apparently, it has.

Boy, Republicans sure can pick ’em.

If you want to meet Beto O’Rourke, here’s your chance.  The first debate between Cruz and O’Rourke is tonight.

You can watch it right here at 6:00 Texas Time.