Holy cow!  This is all kinds of fun!

Frank LoBiondo, a Republican congressvarmint from New Jersey has announced that after 20 years in congress he is retiring.

He’s a centrist Republican who voted against the repeal of Obamacare and does not support the tax bill.  He say the extremes in both party are making it hard to govern.  (Yeah, but, we know which party has the majority, right?)

His decision to retire does create a possible opportunity for Democrats.

While Donald Trump won the district in 2016, Barack Obama won it by seven points over Mitt Romney in 2012.

So, here’s another chance.

Thanks to Patrick for the heads up!

UPDATE:

Tonight Ted Poe, Republican of Texas, said he would not seek re-election.  He’s the third Texas Republican this week, and the fifth this year,  who has announced they won’t seek reelection.

Gohmert and Farenthold, we’re waiting.

I know you’re gonna find this hard to believe.  I mean, a man in Donald Trump’s administration who lies about how much money he has?  Really?  Who would believe that?  But, it happened.  It really did.

Wilbur Ross ain’t worth 3 billion dollars.  I mean, we already know he ain’t worth dog crap, but he also lies about his money.

Forbes Magazine discovered this when he lied to them – and everyone who would listen – about his net worth.  It wasn’t hard to discover his lie.  It required a pencil, a paper napkin, and extensive knowledge of addition and subtraction.

Forbes says they noticed something amiss when Ross filed his required financial discloser forms after Trump nominated him to be Secretary of Commerce.

In all, the forms showed he had assets with a net worth of just $700 million, which was far below the $3.7 billion he had claimed to be worth, and below the $2.9 billion that Forbes had believed he was worth.

He told people that he had transferred $2 billion to his children before he accepted Trump’s offer.  He didn’t.  He lied.

Sound familiar?

Wilbur has also taken a starring role in the Paradise Papers.  There’s no Russians here.  No, sireeee.  Not a Russians anywhere to be found.  And even if a Russian is involved, nothing improper happened.  Just keep saying it over and over and over and damn.

… I want to introduce you to Gregg Popovich, a Texan by choice and the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.

The Spurs played, and won, a basketball game on Sunday, just 30 miles from the church shooting.  Coach Popovich told the assembled sports reporters after the game …

“We won a basketball game, but considering what’s gone on today it’s pretty meaningless,” Popovich said. “When you think about the tragedy that those families are suffering, it’s just inconceivable and impossible to put your head around. So I think talking about basketball tonight is pretty inappropriate. So you guys have a good night.”

This was only minutes after Texas Attorney General and indicted felon Ken Paxton pranced in front of tv cameras to say that the only, by gawd, only solution to this kind of thing is for Texans to carry more guns.

And Texas Governor Greg Abbott highjacked a police news conference to run it like a damn game show host, which left even me with my mouth hanging open.  You’d have thought he was describing a homecoming dance, not a mass murder.  Especially appalling since he tweeted this two years ago.

Moreover, Popovic has said of Trump “This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others.”

And if that wasn’t enough, he continued,

We have a pathological liar in the White House, unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office, and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day. The people who work with this president should be ashamed, because they know better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all.”

Popovich, who goes by “Pop”, is considered one of the greatest coaches in NBA history.  He graduated from the Air Force Academy with a degree in Soviet Studies.

I don’t think he’s finished talking yet.  He’s a leader, and just the kind we need.

I just wanted you folks from foreign states to know about it.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.  

And they expected someone else?

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

Today in Tokyo, Trump said that the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs Texas yesterday was “a mental health problem” and “not a guns situation”.  As we’ve pointed out before, every country has mental health issues, but the ONLY country that has a mass shooting problem is the United States.  The difference between us and other developed countries?  Guns.  Hundreds of millions of guns.

The Sutherland Springs shooter was 26 and had received a bad conduct discharge from the Air Force in 2014 after serving a year in a military jail for assaulting his wife and his child.  He bought his assault rifle at an Academy in San Antonio.  How in the hell can an individual with this kind of criminal record?  Answer – The background check system in this country SUCKS.  Many records are still paper.  Not all criminal records make it into the system.  NO mental health data gets into the system unless a court adjudicates a person incompetent.

In short, any idiot, criminal, and weirdo can easily put his hands on a weapon(s) with a high capacity magazine and all the ammo he can afford.  This is not a mental health problem, Donald, it’s a GUN problem.  Hundreds of millions of guns.