Bye Bye Georgy Boy

Hey there, Georgy boy
Swingin’ down the street so fancy-free
Everybody you met could always see
What lies there were
Inside you

Hey there, Georgy boy
There’s another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the grift you hide
And, oh, what a change there’d be
The world could see
A new Georgy boy

A George Santos 15-foot-high balloon by @MoveOn was tumbling around Capitol Hill ahead of the vote to kick him out of Congress.

[apologies to Jim Dale, lyricist of “Georgy Girl”]

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  1. NBC

    WASHINGTON — House lawmakerstook steps Tuesday to force a vote to expelindictedRep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress this week — the second time this month he will face an expulsion vote.
    Santos, who admitted to lying about his background and has pleaded not guilty to multiple federal charges, easily survived a vote to oust him on Nov. 1. But he predicts he will be removed from office this time around.
    Many lawmakers who voted against expulsion now say they will support it following the release of a damning Ethics Committee report on Santosjust before the Thanksgiving recess.
    A supermajority vote, or two-thirds, is required to expel a member from Congress.
    [continues]

     

     Deseret News

    If George Santos is expelled, I’m going to miss him
    The New York politician was objectively bad for America, but great for my personal amusement.

  2. Parodies: “Jolly Holiday” from Mary Poppins (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) “Georgy Girl” by The Seekers (Tom Springfield)

  3. Looks like Liz Cheney’s book details the lunacy of House Republicans that lets a fraud like Santos stick around this long.

    CNN Exclusive: Liz Cheney’s new book blasts GOP as ‘enablers and collaborators’ of Trump, whom one member called ‘Orange Jesus’

    “So strong is the lure of power that men and women who had once seemed reasonable and responsible were suddenly willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump,” Cheney writes.

  4. AXIOS: Arab American and Muslim American anger over President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war could be endangering his re-election in the majority of 2024 swing states.

    Really? They’d rather elect the guy who wants to ban them, deport them and round them up in detention camps???

  5. Poobah, of course the angry will punish him regardless of the insanity and consequences of doing so.

    BTW, which congressman did she say said, “The things we do for orange Jesus… “?

  6. more on liz’s book

    ‘Bait and switch’: Liz Cheney book tears into Mike Johnson over pro-Trump January 6 brief | Books | The Guardian

    In a new book, the anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney accuses the US House speaker, Mike Johnson, of dishonesty over both the authorship of a supreme court brief in support of Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and the document’s contents, saying Johnson duped his party with a “bait and switch”.
    “As I read the amicus brief – which was poorly written – it became clear Mike was being less than honest,” Cheney writes. “He was playing bait and switch, assuring members that the brief made no claims about specific allegations of [electoral] fraud when, in fact, it was full of such claims.”
    Cheney also says Johnson was neither the author of the brief nor a “constitutional law expert”, as he was “telling colleagues he was”. Pro-Trump lawyers actually wrote the document, Cheney writes.
    […]
    On Tuesday, CNN ran excerpts from Cheney’s book, quoting her view that Johnson “appeared especially susceptible to flattery from Trump and aspired to being anywhere in Trump’s orbit”.
    CNN also reported that Cheney writes: “When I confronted him with the flaws in his legal arguments, Johnson would often concede, or say something to the effect of, ‘We just need to do this one last thing for Trump.’”
    But Cheney’s portrait of Johnson’s manoeuvres is more comprehensive and arguably considerably more damning.
    The case in which the amicus brief was filed saw Republican states led by Texas attempt to persuade the supreme court to side with Trump over his electoral fraud lies.
    It did not. As Cheney points out, even the two most rightwing justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who wanted to hear the case, said they would not have sided with the complainants.
    Cheney describes how Johnson, then Republican study committee chair, emailed GOP members on 9 December 2020 to say Trump had “specifically” asked him to request all Republicans in Congress “join on to our brief”.
    Johnson, Cheney says, insisted he was not trying to pressure people and simply wanted to show support for Trump, by “affirm[ing] for the court (and our constituents back home) our serious concerns with the integrity of our electoral system” and seeking “careful, timely review”.
    “Mike was seriously misleading our members,” Cheney writes. “The brief did assert as facts known to the amici many allegations of fraud and serious wrongdoing by officials in multiple states.”
    Johnson, she says, then told Republicans that 105 House members had expressed interest. “Not one of them had seen the brief,” Cheney writes. She also says he added “a new inaccurate claim”, that state officials had been “clearly shown” to have violated the constitution.
    “But virtually all those claims had already been heard by the courts and decided against Trump.”
    Calling the brief “poorly written”, Cheney says she doubted Johnson’s honesty and asked him who wrote it, as “to assert facts in a federal court without personal knowledge” would “present ethical questions for anyone who is a member of the bar”.
    The general counsel to McCarthy, then Republican minority leader, told Cheney that McCarthy would not sign the brief, while McCarthy’s chief of staff also called it “a bait and switch”. McCarthy told her he would not sign on. When the brief was filed, McCarthy had not signed it. But “less than 24 hours later, a revised version … bore the names of 20 additional members. Among them was Kevin McCarthy.
    “Mike Johnson blamed a ‘clerical error’ … [which] was also the rationale given to the supreme court for the revised filing. In fact, McCarthy had first chosen not to be on the brief, then changed his mind, likely because of pressure from Trump.”
    It took the court a few hours to reject the Texas suit. But the saga was not over. Trump continued to seek to overturn his defeat, culminating in the deadly attack on Congress on 6 January 2021 by supporters whom he told to “fight like hell”.
    Cheney takes other shots at Johnson. But in picking apart his role in the amicus brief, she strikes close to claims made for his legal abilities as he grasped the speaker’s gavel last month. Johnson “was telling our colleagues he was a constitutional law expert, while advocating positions that were constitutionally infirm”, Cheney writes.
    Citing conversations with other Republicans about Johnson’s “lawsuit gimmick” (as she says James Comer of Kentucky, now House oversight chair, called it), Cheney says she “ultimately learned” that Johnson did not write the brief.
    “A team of lawyers who were also apparently advising Trump had in fact drafted [it],” she writes. “Mike Johnson had left the impression that he was responsible for the brief, but he was just carrying Trump’s water.”
    […]
    Two and a half years on, notwithstanding 91 criminal charges, 17 for election subversion, Trump is the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. He polls close to or ahead of Biden.
    In certain circumstances, close elections can be thrown to the House – which Mike Johnson now controls.

  7. and who stands next in line to become prez should anything untoward happen to joe and kamala?

    yeah, that guy.

    better believe there are some bad folks out there planning on seeing it happen so that their sacred golden-haired cow can move back into the WH…. only after which he’s been pardoned of course by their strawman maga mike.

  10. Another good podcast to hear:   “Who Killed JFK?”  They’re on episode 4 out today.   

  11. he’s actually not orange, that’s makeup to hide his pallid, 80 year old skin

    …and don’t mock their religion, appeal to it: “blotchy anti-Christ”

    Jesus: “it would be easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven”

    Trump: “Mar-A-Lago is worth $700 million”

    🧐

  14. i like O’s approach on his radio show as a strategist formulating talking-points for you, the listener/operative
     
    ok have a good day all ✌️ 

  15. He has been belching this crap since 2015 and in four years in the White House he never proposed a single health care plan of any sort….

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!! Getting much better Healthcare than Obamacare for the American people will be a priority of the Trump Administration. It is not a matter of cost, it is a matter of HEALTH. America will have one of the best Healthcare Plans anywhere in the world. Right now it has one of the WORST!

    Nov 29, 2023, 12:36 AM

  16. He’s a liar.  Makes it really easy for him to say things which aren’t true.       

    The only way out (since apparently it’s OK for traitors to run for election to office) will be to attack him relentlessly with unavoidable truths.

  17. Have long thought this is such a powerful argument against Trump for suburban parents, but just don’t hear it that much:

    “The number one hurdle for Donald Trump is I’ve never met a dad or a mom or a grandpa or a grandma who have told me they want their son or daughter, grandchild to grow up to be like him. That’s a big deal” — Bob Vander Plaats, CEO of the Iowa-based Christian conservative group The Family Leader.

  18. So Comer is showing the vacuity of his case against Hunter Biden – Hunter says he’ll  testify to Comer’s committee but he wants it televises.  Comer says, “Well, ummmm, I think we need to do this in private.” As Kimmel finished Comer’s rejection, “,,, How else are we going to make up his answers to give to the press?”

  19. The 14th amendment is what was put in there to make it impossible for Traitors to run for office. The issue is being avoided by those whose JOB it is to see that Traitors are prevented from bastardizing our electoral process 

  20. I saw a trump ad last night while watching the Celtics.  It shows trump as being the champion of the military and then it shows Biden tripping on the plane stairs.  Unfortunately this election is going to be about trumpie.  I can’t stand watching the political shows right now.  Been trying to watch Lawrence O’Donnel… but it’s all about trump and legalize.  I’ll vote for Dems only no matter what…

  21. WaPo on the Biden-Comer thingy:

    Hunter Biden is willing to testify in a public hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, a lawyer for the president’s son said Tuesday,in what would amount to a dramatic and high-profile showdown carrying risks for both sides.

    Abbe Lowell, a lawyer representing Hunter Biden, made the offer in a letter in response to a subpoena this month from House Republicans seeking a deposition, which would take place behind closed doors. Biden’s counteroffer to appear publicly is a striking escalation in the battle between the president’s son and congressional Republicans, who have focused on his past business dealings and have launched impeachment hearings aimed at President Biden.
     
    Lowell’s three-page letter cited past comments from Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the committee, that essentially dared Hunter Biden to come and testify in public.

     

    “Mr. Chairman, we take you up on your offer,” Lowell wrote in a copy of the letter reviewed by The Washington Post. “Accordingly, our client will get right to it by agreeing to answer any pertinent and relevant question you or your colleagues might have, but — rather than subscribing to your cloaked, one-sided process — he will appear at a public Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.”

     

    “A public proceeding would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements,” Lowell added.

    In a statement later Tuesday morning, Comer rejectedBiden’s request that the deposition be held in public.
     

    “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer said. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”
    …

    Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (Md.), the committee’s top Democrat, said Comer’s response shows that Republicans have no confidence in their own case and fear the exposure a public hearing would bring.
     

    “Let me get this straight,” Raskin said in a statement. “After wailing and moaning for ten months about Hunter Biden and alluding to some vast unproven family conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to appear and testify, Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”
    …

    “Your empty investigation has gone on too long wasting too many better-used resources. It should come to an end,” Lowell wrote. “Consequently, Mr. Biden will appear at such a public hearing on the date you [announced], December 13, or any date in December that we can arrange.”

    “From all the individuals you have requested depositions or interviews, all you will learn is that your accusations are baseless,” he added. “However, the American people should see that for themselves.”

    Lowell also suggested that his client had little reason to hide — and that he didn’t trust House Republicans not to selectively leak details from a private hearing.
    “We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public. We therefore propose opening the door,” the attorney wrote. “If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let the light shine on these proceedings.”
    …

    But Lowell argued that the committee has studiously ignored the business activities of Trump family members, even though — unlike Hunter Biden — some of them served in official positions during Donald Trump’s presidency.
     

    “Notwithstanding this stark difference, you have manipulated Hunter’s legitimate business dealings and his times of terrible addiction into a politically motivated basis for hearings to accuse his father of some wrongdoing,” Lowell wrote.

    Comer’s out of his league with Abbe.

  22. Beto O’Rourke is gearing up a voter registration army via a Zoom call on December 5th, one day before the next Republic throw-down. It’s time to rid ourselves of Tedious Cruz and every other Republican possible.

  24. Looks like maybe some people are starting to see that Joe is doing the job he was elected to do and isn’t spending his time looking for ways to fuck up the US and its influence in the world.

  25. A person with whom I am well acquainted claims Joe has more cognitive issues than her 89 year old father. Clips of stumbling, bumbling and mumbling will continue unabated. I won’t be surprised if they slip in an image of Jimmy in his wheelchair and say it’s Biden.

  26. The greatest clumsies of the fat slob need to be shown.  My favorite is shuffling down the ramp at the Army ceremony. 
     
    I have heard of fermented pickles.  Due to the luck of seeing a jar of German pickles on the FB group Buy Nothing I now have a jar of pickles.  I tried to open it, but there was way too much gas in it.  Finally, a handle church key and slamming on a granite surface I got it open.  Smelled fine, nothing funky.  Tastes interesting for dill pickles.  I am going to leave this out, with the yellow sticky to open it a few times just to let it breathe.

  27. BB – They sell jar openers (one end for big jars and for condiment bottles).  I bought mine a dozen years ago. I’m not much for gadgets, but this was a good, little investment. 

    Ivy – The late night shows haven’t helped. Here’s the deal, though. He’s good at his job, so all they’ve got to go on is the occasional human slip up, which they push as a sort of grandpa-ism. I think they feel they can’t just poke at Fat Orange Bastard; they have to mention POTUS Joe in some way and so they show a man who has had a broken foot, tripping going up stairs to the plane. I’m surprised SFB can still climb stairs. He sure as heck can’t walk down a ramp. I miss the previous Joe parodies, like Jason Sudeikis in an aviator sunglasses and big, white choppers, slapping everyone on the back, eating an ice cream cone and cussing.

  28. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4333664-senators-legislation-facial-recognition-screening/

    “Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced bipartisan legislation on Wednesday to end involuntary facial recognition screening at airports.”

    “The pair of senators are aiming to repeal the authorization of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to use facial recognition screening at airports, saying that the Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act (TPPA) would prevent the agency from “further exploiting the technology and storing traveler’s biodata.”

    “The senators added that most Americans are unaware that they can opt out of the screening.”

    If you ask to opt out, I wonder if TSA had been advised that you can do that or if you’ll be harassed?

  29. bId – the jar openers are my life.  I have very limited use of my right hand, and age (with physical damage) has made my left less useful.  Unfortunately I have not replaced my broken electronical mechanical opener yet. Cool thing it fits on the lid, hit start, and it opens jars. It was matched and lost to a jar a month ago, parts all over the place. If I could not get it with a granite counter top I would bring out the big Channel Lock pliers. Those are very good at unscrewing things.

  30. BB, I’ve had a couple of jar openers in the past, but Mrs. P bought a Kuhn Rikon one from QVC  for $10 that I was skeptical about, but the sumbitch works like a charm for me, but it gets mixed reviews. A strap wrench of appropriate size for the lid works well, too.

  31. My jar opener is acoustic (didn’t realize they have electrified versions) and inexpensive, from Walgreen’s gadget section long ago.   

  33. Joe will never be as old as Plumpty is crooked. 

    A court-ordered financial auditor has caught Donald Trump quietly moving $40 million from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account—seemingly so the former president could pay his whopping $29 million tax bill,” the Daily Beast reports.

    “Trump isn’t supposed to be moving any money around without alerting Barbara S. Jones, a former federal judge in New York tasked with babysitting the Trump Organization for its relentlessly shady business practices. But on Wednesday, she notified a New York state court about some major bank transfers that were never brought to her attention by the Trumps.“

    https://politicalwire.com/2023/11/29/trump-caught-moving-money-around/

  35. day 14, tested negative, was terrible, going to back to slightly more caution, but not at a 2020 level 🤷‍♂️ 

    i see more of our service workers masking-up, if that tells you anything

  36. i used to employ the butter-knife method to open jars, but now, as a canner, few things are more precious than an undamaged lid

    ok, a “Henry Kissinger” push-notification after 9pm can only mean one thing…

  38. Apparently the official poke ’em with a stick to make sure people have done the poking. 
     
    Never say something bad about the dead.  Something I tend to not follow.  The guy was a war criminal. He caused tremendous numbers of dead and wounded.  He played games with international affairs.
     
    Say nothing bad about the dead.  Yup.  Nothing bad, I have been waiting for this day for over fifty years.

  39. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/anthony-bourdain-really-really-hated-henry-kissinger.html

    “The late chef and television host Anthony Bourdain traveled extensively in Southeast Asia, including in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, where his shows repeatedly highlighted the legacy of the Vietnam War. In particular, Bourdain frequently trained his ire on former Secretary of State–Nobel Peace Prize winner–secret bombing of Cambodia facilitator–accused war criminal Henry Kissinger.”

    Bourdain had the following to say about Kissinger in his 2001 book, A Cook’s Tour:

    “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

  40. https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/trump-truth-social-posts

    “Former President Trump has spent the last 24 hours on Truth Social unleashing a torrent of grievances, vengeful promises and links to online conspiracy theories about his political rivals.”

     Trump’s gripes and grievances are his followers’ fentanyl. The reality that Plumpty would be incapable to carry out terrible edicts such as he threatens will not inhibit his misguided followers from voting him in to try.

  41. Old Berman un-quits Twitter after Muks deletes that tweet.    
    Old Berman says:
    I quit Twitter but Lauren Boebert’s firm hand showed me I was making a mistake.

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