Stick with me on this. We have our morning routine here. Whoever is up first prepares breakfast. For me, Cheerios with fruit. For my wife, fruit with oatmeal or granola. Then, we each have a cuppa. …

2/8/2023 0 Comments For the one or two readers who may have noticed, I haven’t posted in a while seems, every time I was about to post something Cong. George Santos (R-Never Never Land) told another lie or there’d be yet another round of voting for Speaker of the House, making whatever I was going to say Inoperative. So, as CBS News anchor Nora O’Donnell annoyingly says every night, “we’ve got a lot to cover”:

(This is being posted prior to noon on January 6th when the House is scheduled to return to the business of electing a Speaker. Anything can happen anytime.) The multi-day debate and voting over electing a Speaker of the House could be destined for failure for Kevin McCarthy no matter…

Congressman-elect George Anthony Santos (R-Fantasyland) “embellished” his resume as he was seeking election, he has admitted. Better that he admitted what he truly did — flat-out lie on his resume and about his life. For example, he said he graduated from Baruch College. But he didn’t. He never even attended Baruch, according to the school. That, Santos says, is an embellishment, not a lie. I once worked at Yale University. It means I went “to” Yale every day to do my job, so I guess I could say I “attended” Yale because I was there every day?

As his “brand” starts to diminish, there are three choices left for former President Donald J. Trump: 1) Maintain his current posture that he is a candidate for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination and see if he can win (doubtful) 2) Decide that the way to take over the country is to convince his followers that they and he have been wronged and that the Constitution must be done away with and then wage a full-blown insurrection in an effort to take the country by force (unlikely and will not succeed)

President Biden had it right when he said yesterday that democracy won Tuesday’s elections. The pundits, pollsters and press had it wrong when they say Democrats won the election. Clearly, Democrats won the expectations game because they did way better than those same pundits, pollsters and press said they would…

I decided to quit Twitter. I don’t expect the Earth to stop because of that nor do I even expect the few likes my posts used to (sometimes) get to miss me. But, finally, Twitter got me. Honestly, it’s not like I even looked at it every day. I didn’t. It took a buildup, I confess. First, it was the phony information that made Twitter all atwitter. Then, it was tracking ex-President Trump’s tweets. Why, I’m not sure, because they always made the news in nanoseconds anyway so I couldn’t fall behind by much.

Two news stories caught my eye in the past couple of days. The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate debate and the story about the My Pillow Guy and Trump supporter, Mike Lindell. First, Pennsylvania. I won’t even begin to try to dissect the response Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz gave on abortion. That’ll be torn apart enough but let me just say, as a man, I don’t want “local political leaders” involved in a decision on whether a woman gets an abortion. It’s not only wrong, it’s icky to even think about — I picture a local politician in the room with the doctor and the woman. I trust the woman making the decision, with medical advice from her doctor.

If you ever entertained any notion that the Republican Party will endure in a democracy, tell me what you’re smoking, please. As an example, Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s most recent embarrassing issue to cope with is twofold: A woman claimed to have an affair with him and he…