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If you have read anything that I’ve written lately, you know that I have been stressing about the midterm elections. Traditionally, the party holding the White House loses big in the midterms.

This time around, we also have to worry about the census results moving seats from blue to red states and Republican dominated state legislatures gerrymandering to an absurd degree while passing voter suppression laws that make it more difficult for POC to vote.

But it turns out that I’m not the only one losing sleep at night. …

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So when we last peeked into the venerable halls of Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had vetoed two Republican candidates for her select committee for having not only voted against certifying the election, but also for publicly supporting the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Trump.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a striking display of mature wisdom, retaliated by pulling all five of his chosen candidates from the committee, effectively gathering up his marbles and heading home.

Pelosi, not to be outdone, upped the ante on Sunday by appointing another Republican, Adam Kinzinger, an outspoken Trump critic…

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I don’t know about you, but I miss the good old days of “No-Drama Obama.” After the three-ring circus of the Trump administration, I thought for sure that the country would get a respite while Biden tackled serious issues like the pandemic , vaccines, healing fractured relationships with our allies, working on climate change and infrastructure, you know, presidential stuff.

Alas, no. While everyone else is desperately trying to ignore the frantic efforts of former ringmaster Trump to cling to power, the Republicans have apparently absorbed some of the less desirable lessons in governance from the Trump circus.

The Freedom…

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You can file this one under “So what else is new?” Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, was formed last year supposedly to fund his challenges to the 2020 election. It raised $75 million.

Would you be surprised to learn that not a single penny has been spent on any of the ongoing election audits? That the only monies disbursed went to pay Trump’s legal fees, travel expenses and staff?

So what else is new?

The never-ending Arizona audit is being paid for by taxpayer dollars and private donations. Private donations that don’t include donations from Trump’s PAC.

There is an…

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The political world is in a lather over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to reject two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks for the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.

I don’t understand why her decision is so controversial. She is doing exactly what she said she would do — block any Republicans from serving on the committee who refused to certify the election.

I hope you are sitting down for this. I actually agree with her.

Bet you thought that you would never see the day that I agreed with anything that Pelosi said or did. …

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Amy Klobuchar, who was my choice instead of Biden in the Democratic primaries in 2020, has apparently started her next run for the presidency. She is the chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee, a normally quiet, staid committee that doles out senate office space and oversees foodservice and the day-to-day business of the Senate.

Sounds boring, right?

Well, the Rules Committee also oversees “federal elections generally, including the election of the president, vice president and members of the Congress.”

Senator Klobuchar is using those responsibilities to leap into the fray over voting rights. And not only is she having the…

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Hey, remember that article I wrote about the conspiracy theory that Biden is a figurehead and VP Harris is actually in charge? And Trafalgar Group did a poll that showed that 56.4% of Americans think that Biden is not running the government?

Well, Trafalgar Group did a follow-up poll about Harris’ preparedness for the presidency.

You’ll never guess what they found.

58.6% of those surveyed said that Harris is not ready to be president “based on her performance as vice president.”

Only 36.4% responded that they were “very confident,” “somewhat confident,” or “not sure” how confident they were about Harris’s…

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Trump is peeved that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which organizes the British Open, decided against holding any of its games at Turnberry, Trump’s Scottish golf club, for the foreseeable future.

This is the statement that they issued in the wake of the January 6 insurrection:

“We had no plans to stage any of our championships at Turnberry and will not do so in the foreseeable future. …