John Kasich is a former GOP presidential candidate and Ohio governor. This is what they did in the Alaska, Pennsylvania, and Ohio legislatures. The GOP speaker nominee, Kevin McCarthy, is being blocked by a few extremists who want to dismantle the federal government. That tiny group doesn’t re[...]
Archive for January, 2023
House speaker update (1/5/23)
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January 4th, 2023 - 7:51 pm § in Misc.
Who is Rep. Kat Cammack?
Kat Cammack is the young GOP congresswoman from Florida no one ever heard of until she injected low humor into the high drama of the House speaker election impasse on Wednesday, January 4, 2022. Now everyone’s heard of her. In a floor speech, Cammack said, “They want us to fight each oth[...]
January 4th, 2023 - 6:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake goes “stolen valor”
Kari Lake, the defeated GOP candidate for Arizona governor who refuses to concede after losing the election, a recount, and a court challenge, is going around calling herself Governor Lake (see story here). Gee, where have we seen this before? Here? In videos like the one below? I remember when to [...]
Best Captcha of 2023
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Don’t give GOP speaker holdouts what they want
What they want is to dismantle the federal government. In the 2023 Congress, the GOP has 222 House seats, and needs 218 to elect a speaker. Because of intraparty divisions, it isn’t enough. At this writing (Wednesday, January 4, 2023), five roll calls have fallen short of producing a majority [...]
January 3rd, 2023 - 9:09 pm § in Misc.
Traffic stop (video)
An Indiana state trooper pulled over this driver at 3:52 pm on December 15, 2022, for following too close. If he’d known Idaho police were searching for this vehicle, he wouldn’t have let the driver go on his merry way. (Update: Vox reports he was pulled over at the request of surveillan[...]
January 3rd, 2023 - 6:20 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP’s leadership problem
People who follow political news are aware two big leadership fights are unfolding in the GOP, with a third lurking in the background. The most visible of these is Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s struggle to be elected House speaker. He has only a 3-vote margin to work with, and 5 of his members openly [...]
January 2nd, 2023 - 3:39 pm § in Law and Courts
Another case of trigger-happy vigilantism
Quadarius McDowell, 30 (photo, left), of Decatur, Georgia, took his car to a tire shop (photo below) on Saturday, December 31, 2022. When he saw Daniel Gorden, 24 (photo, right), a tire shop employee, moving his car he assumed Gorden was stealing it and shot him to death (see story here). McDowell w[...]
January 1st, 2023 - 10:05 pm § in Misc.
2023 Space Needle New Year’s show
If you missed it, here’s the video from Seattle TV station KING 5. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]