jack, that soft jazz is background for your road trip today.  was tempted to start off with ray charles and the rayettes singing “hit the road, jack” but worried you might take it the wrong way.  any ol’ how, enjoy yourself and the spring scenery.

LP’s latest  on gop

Matt Gaetz isn’t an anomaly. He’s part of the stain on American politics that the Republican Party has become.

newsweek‘s  latest on the grand ol’ party poopers

Trump-McConnell Feud Heats Up as GOP ‘Kiss the Ring’ at Donor Retreat,… 

thinking of springtime in FL when critters begin to stir about and snakes slither from under dark places (like the above gopers), here’s a rather disturbing op ed today in wapo:

Florida is full of invasive species. They’re coming for the rest of us. 
[…]
Call it Floridafication: A number of the state’s nastiest living attributes are rapidly migrating outward. The state’s unusual history and climate have made it a cushy incubator for all manner of ecological threats. But many of the phenomena that make Florida disturbingly unique, from reptiles to trees to whole landscape types, may not be unique to it for long. As the climate continues to shift, it will get harder and harder to think of the Sunshine State as a place apart, an ecological Other sealed off from the rest of the country by an imaginary wall of palm trees. So mock the place at your peril. Florida’s strange present may be coming for your state’s future.
Floridafication is being driven by those two familiar forces — man-made climate change and globalization — stirred together into a cocktail all the state’s own. Florida is a good case study for the effects of globalization, in particular
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sounds like Boehner’s book may be a fun read

the hill:

Ted Cruz is a “reckless asshole” and Michele Bachmann a “lunatic.”
Conservative pundits like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are residents of “Looneyville.”
And Donald Trump, pushing a “bullshit” lie that the election was stolen, incited the “bloody insurrection” on Jan. 6 “for nothing more than selfish reasons.”
In the world according to John Boehner, detailed in his profanity-laced memoir out Tuesday, the former House Speaker is the voice of reason and sanity in a Republican party that has been taken over by “whack jobs” and “insurrectionists” and become unmoored from reality — and its core conservative principles.
[…]
“He’s still well-liked in the district by tons of folks, just like on the Hill. Some people love him and some people were kind of happy to see him move on,” Davidson said. “But I think everybody has some sort of good story about him, and he’s a likeable person. And I think a lot of people whether they loved him or didn’t are going to enjoy reading his book.
Davidson’s Boehner story happened at the Mexican restaurant that night. He asked the Speaker if the recent press accounts were true: Did Boehner really call Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh”?
“I did,” Boehner replied. “Have you ever met Ted Cruz?” 

pogo, yeah, that’s the thing that really stood out in his drivel.  mr. wilde had a saying that aptly reflects on his $400,000 a-pop audience lastnight

wapo’s ms petri has an op ed today about the above proposed bill.  as usual it’s funny – not the bill, her oped.

I am trying to report gender infractions in my kindergarten but don’t know what counts!

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