Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ha, ha, Oh, my side hurts! ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

That’s me, laughing at those wacky, zany Republicans and their “hearing” into Biden’s “crimes.” They just get nothing, and nothing, and then more nothing. But having nothing doesn’t stop ’em. They’re going to run into that wall, over and over and over again. Hilarious!

They SHOULD be passing the debt ceiling increase but that would be responsible, doing the right thing. Republicans don’t DO the right thing. EVER! So instead, they’ve launched a hearing into the various and sundry ‘crimes of Joe Biden.’ (Checks notes. Is this correct? Joe Biden?) Yeah, Joe Biden. They brought in a hard-hitting first “witness,” Jonathon Turley from Fox Not-News, apparently because he was opposed to Trump’s second impeachment.

His testimony? No, he doesn’t see any impeachable crimes from Joe Biden. Oh, he thinks the hearings should continue because they might find something, but, no, they haven’t found anything yet. Yeah, that’s how it’s supposed to work, hearings in search of crimes. So far, so good…

These guys are an embarrassment to the country, to the world, and to humanity in general. But not to Republicans. Republicans think they’re hard-hitting, intrepid “investigators” seeking the dirt on a political opponent and they’re desperate to find… something… anything. They NEED some law-breaking from Biden in an attempt to counter all of the law-breaking from 45 but it just isn’t there. Private citizen Hunter, sure, but it just doesn’t have the same zing as getting Joe.

Meanwhile, Democrats are actively mocking them to their faces and they don’t even understand. At some point, stupid on stupid, trying to be even more stupid and, sadly, succeeding spectacularly is going to be a problem for this once great nation. It’s a good thing nothing important is going on right now or the Republicans might drop the ball entirely…

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Speaking of the Republican debt ceiling failure, welcome to the Republican shut-down! Count that a prediction at this point. They actually have one more day, today, to get something done. In my lifetime, I’ve seen Congress get something done in one day exactly one time in my life. (I hadn’t even known it was possible.) It was when conservatives in Congress, trying to make some point, declared Terry Schiavo still alive. Doctors said no, she’s gone, but the cons took a vote and – viola! – resurrected (in a very much still-dead kind of way, though).

Cons have been very quick to try to convince people that nobody will be hurt. Specifically, what they mean is that none of THEM will be hurt. The Democratic controlled Senate is working, today, to try and get something passed as a stop-gap but the America-hating Freedumb Caucus in the House is going to say no to everything. This is their goal, their dream-come-true. They pretend they’re trying to save money but this isn’t the process for that. This is just a question of whether we pay our bills or not and the cons are saying, “NO!” That, alone, is going to do harm.

Perhaps we could slash the Pentagon budget in half. That would save LOTS of money. Hey, we could shut down the money-wasting, time wasting, politically motivated “impeachment hearing,” the very embodiment of “wasteful spending.” I also like the idea of refusing to spend one Federal cent in any district represented by a no-voting “Freedumb Caucus” member. That will save some money, too. Hey, if it’s what those, particular (and particularly stupid), constituents want, let’s give it to them. “No money for you – in keeping with your preference!”

I don’t really see any reason the rest of the country should suffer. Let the constituents of the “Freedumb Caucus” live with ZERO Federal assistance for awhile, say, through the next election. If they return their Freedumb caucus member to the House, they’re approving of no Federal assistance. (That won’t happen. That would involve having an actual principle about a thing.) If they prefer to receive their Social Security or Medicare or Disability payments or whatever other Federal assistance from which they might benefit, they need only replace their insane and always-wrong “representative.” Simple. Meanwhile, NONE of the Congress critters should be paid nor any expenses reimbursed until they do their job…

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Well, Diane Feinstein has passed, aged 90. If you’ve been alive over the last couple of days, you’ve learned everything you could about her from most outlets. For me? I liked her when she was younger, less so as she aged. I thought she should have stepped down, at least when staffers started having to explain to her who she was. I don’t mean her any disrespect but she clearly overstayed her abilities and that was not in the best interests of the country, despite the rhetoric.

Governor Gavin Newsom gets to appoint her replacement. He says he’s going to pick a “place-holder.” He doesn’t want to choose any of the declared candidates for fear of giving one of them a boost the others don’t get. I expect a replacement sooner rather than later. We’ve all seen the state Feinstein was in. Again, despite all the talk, we’ve all been on a kind of death watch for her. Newsom must have someone in mind already…