Less than two weeks after the House approved the tax revision, Chales Koch and his wife donated almost half a million dollars to Paul Ryan’s joint fundraising committee.

Less than two weeks.

Pay off is not only large, it’s fast.

(Click the little one to see the big one.)

In June, mega-donors in the Koch political network had threatened to withhold contributions to GOP members of Congress unless they repealed Obamacare and passed tax reform.

Well, a large shout of glee came from Republicans members of congress as they sold their souls.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

Another Republican House member jumps ship.

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, announced Monday that he will not seek reelection in an increasingly competitive district.

This makes him the 9th Republican committee chairman to announce retirement in the 115th Congress.  Let’s go for 10!

The Democratic candidate will more than likely be Mikie Sherrill—a former federal prosecutor and Navy veteran—was identified by the DCCC as part of the “Red to Blue” program, “an initiative by the campaign committee to flip Republican districts nationwide.”  That means they will spend money on this race.

I will say one thing, if Republicans keep dropping out, they sure are making it hard for Russia to win this election.

So here’s the deal. You probably didn’t hear about this. I didn’t, and I only know about it because someone else named Susan gave me a heads up.

This story comes to us from a newspaper in the Czech Republic.

Five US Congressmen representing the Republican Party have requested a meeting in Prague with Tomio Okamura,  the leader of an extreme right wing party, the Movement of Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD)

These US Congressmen have chosen to meet with Tomio Okamura, who is well known for calling for the banning of Islam and ‘external manifestations of Islam.’ The SPD’s parliamentary party secretary has called for the gassing of Jews, gays and Roma.

According to Okamura’s press release, “they will discuss topics of bi-lateral and global importance, including European policy which concerns demographic changes, migration and immigration”.

So, they are meeting with a certified lifetime guaranteed Nazi to discuss demographic changes, migration, and immigration. Now, what red-blooded American would meet with this guy?

Okay, I’m pretty certain you can guess at least three out of five of the congressmen who were scheduled to attend, but here is a list in case you get stuck.

Steve King (R-IA)
Andy Harris (R-MD)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
Paul Gosar  (R-AZ)

The meeting got cancelled because of “ongoing budgetary problems in the US Congress.”  Thank God.

I have an idea if it gets rescheduled.  Let’s start a Go Fund Me Account to bribe Okamura to keep these five guys and open a hamburger joint.

Thanks to the other Susan for the heads up.

The Texas State Republican executive committee voted on Saturday to censure outgoing speaker Joe Strauss for standing up for human and equal rights.  Hard right goons were very frustrated last session when Strauss stood in the way of Patrick’s asinine Bathroom Bill and other bills that did nothing to help anyone but homophobic white supremacists.  More amazing?  The censure vote took a 2/3rds majority to pass, and they got it.  One of those opposing the censure vote was Michael McCloskey of Cedar Park who said, “The Republican Party of Texas has changed into something most mainstream Republicans would not recognize.”

That statement wins the day for the most understatement.

We have recently discovered that Air Force One has five “chillers” (refrigerators) on board, with each one having 70 square feet of storage space.  Your average home refrigerator has about 20 cubic feet of storage.

Two of them apparently need replacing.  The cost?  $24 million.  Dollars. Taxpayer money.

Honey, for that much money, they better not be able to tweet on their own.

It remains unclear if both airplanes that serve as Air Force One need their chillers replaced.  That would double the cost.

Eric Schultz, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama, reacted to the news by tweeting that “we would have been impeached” if the previous administration had carried out such an upgrade to Air Force One.

No kidding.

Okay, in today’s edition of Why The Hell Aren’t These People In Jail? I will tell you about a Super PAC that ripped off people to the tune of $3,000,000.  You’d think they won the damn Super PAC lottery.

The PAC is called “For A Better America.”  It is located at 2180 North Loop West, Set. 255, Houston, Texas 77018. That is the law office of Jarad Wayne Najvar.

The PAC raised $3 million, but only $30,000 of it is itemized.  When you click that link, you will notice the lack of employer information for the donors.  Hmmmmm … is that on purpose or just real sloppy bookkeeping?

And how was the money spent?  Well, vendors got all of the $2.75 million spent.  All of it. Click here to see this damn mess.  Pay particular notice to this vendor.

This vendor got a boatload crap of money.  However, their address is a post office box, and there is no such company authorized to do business in the District of Columbia.

Not one dime of the monies raised went to a candidate or a campaign.  Not one damn stinkin’ dime.

Here’s the couple who bankrolled the creation of this bucket of crap.

They have a little history with this kind of stuff.  Two years ago, they were prohibited from doing any fundraising in the state of Oregon after ripping off people with their Firefighters Support Foundation, which didn’t support firefighters.  The website is still up.  The “Foundation’s” address is at a UPS store.

The reason they were banned in Oregon is that their “charity” only spent 6.5% – averaged over three years! – on program services, i.e., benefitting firefighters. The rest went to fundraisers. Thanks to Citizens United their new super PAC can give zero to support or oppose candidates – all the money can go to fundraisers.

Here’s another little fun fact – the website for “For a Better America” links back to the original website that got them banned in Oregon.  Holy. Damn. Crap.

There has got to be a real special place in hell for these people.  It’s legalized theft, thanks to the United States Supreme Court.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.