United States Senators and Congressmen receive an annual salary of $174,000.00. The leaders get a bump to $193,000.00. It’s a job. There’s an on-going peer review, snarkily played out in TV sound bites and tweets, usually with little impact. There’s a performance review, aka election, every two years for Congressmen…
Oral Roberts? Are you kidding me? Actually, this is not about basketball. Well, maybe a little. It’s March…one of the solstices happened yesterday, so it’s spring…many of us are getting vaccinated and feeling pandemically hopeful…stimulus checks are hitting bank accounts…immigrant kids are flooding to our border…Florida, Texas and Alabama, oh…
…and an extra hour of daylight to enjoy it. So, something truly remarkable has happened in a most unremarkable fashion. After one of our country’s most disastrous years, at least since the Great Depression, every Democratic member of Congress, except for the pea-brained Jared Golden of Maine, did their jobs,…
I am not able to verify this with Google Translate, but I’m absolutely certain, (at least, as certain as any statement, aside, rejoinder, exaltation, burp or babble from last week’s through-the-looking glass gathering of morons in Orlando), that CPAC is the colloquial, common, Cyrillic spelling, in Russian, for booooooooooo-shit. So,…