Rob the blogger

Election day is coming in 142 days, and at this writing the Democrats have roughly a 70% chance of taking the House of Representatives. There’s also a 45% chance they’ll win the Senate. Sounds awesome, right? Only with Toady-in-Chief Mike Johnson arguably set to lose control of the Speakership, it seems safe to conclude he’ll call the House back into a lame duck session before the 120th Congress begins on January 3, 2027. Lame duck sessions offer potentially high-impact, low-accountability...

Thanks (most recently) to Trump’s profanity-laced post on Easter Sunday, an increasingly bipartisan group is agreeing that he’s lost what little of his mind was left and it’s time to get his finger off the nuclear button. After all, when Bernie Sanders, J.B. Pritzker, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene all agree on something, it’s pretty obvious the world has been turned on its head.

I have some good friends who are professional magicians. They wave a wand, say a few incantations, and make a rabbit disappear. Anyone who’s paying attention isn’t fooled, of course, though it’s always entertaining to watch. One could say the same thing – anyone who’s paying attention isn’t fooled – to the performances being put on by the nation’s Republican “leadership.” It’s what prevents anyone with sense from being fooled by the “America First” award presented by House Speaker Mike...