Mr. National Disaster totally chokes like Mitt Romney, signs border bill instead of using veto POWER

I mean he’s so blatantly stupid. 

He’s a punk. 

He’s a dog. 

He’s a pig.

He’s a con. 

A bullshit artist. 

A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. 

He doesn’t do his homework.

He doesn’t care.  

He thinks he’s gaming society.

Doesn’t pay his taxes. 

He’s an idiot.

Colin Powell said it best. “He’s a national disaster.” 

He’s an embarrassment to this country.

It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point that this fool. This bozo. Has wound up where he has.

#metoo

Hillary beats Trump in the shunning department 8-2 as 10 faithless Electoral College electors vote for somebody else

Ugh!

That's the story from ABC tonight here.

It's a stain on our election from both sides that the rules we agree to live by aren't being followed as they should be.

The two defectors from Trump voted for Rand Paul and John Kasich. Five from Hillary voted for Colin Powell, Bernie Sanders and an Injun. Three others were removed and replaced by alternates who ended up voting for Hillary as the people they replaced should have.

On net Trump wins 304-227 instead of 306-232.

Revulsion Election update: Electors pledged to Hillary in MN, ME and WA today refused to vote for her

Democrats really did not like Hillary Clinton in 2016. 5.1 million former Obama voters didn't vote for her, and now her electors won "fair and square" are balking.

You can't make this stuff up.

From the MarketWatch story here:

In Washington state, three Democratic electors voted for Colin Powell and one for Faith Spotted Eagle, who has been fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, instead of Clinton. ...

In Minnesota, elector Muhammad Abdurrahman didn’t vote for Clinton and was replaced by an alternate who did. According to the Los Angeles Times, Abdurrahman was a delegate for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention.

In Maine, elector David Bright tried to vote for Sanders but was rebuffed and ended up voting for Clinton, according to the Associated Press.

The biggest news of the day is that former SECSTATE Colin Powell thinks Hillary Clinton is dumb

What?! The former Secretary of State thinks the smartest woman in the room is DUMB?!

Too bad for Hillary that we haven't yet made the kind of social progress that would allow us to call out a black man for being a misogynist without having someone play the race card on us.

Colin Powell, magic negro.

Ryan did not vote for Speaker this morning, nor did Webster, but Nancy Pelosi voted . . . for herself!

Outgoing Speaker Boehner voted for Ryan.

The Roll Call is here.

The only Democrat not voting was Meeks.

The Blue Dog Democrat Cooper who got one vote to be the new Speaker was the guy who voted for Colin Powell! Being a good guy, unlike Pelosi, Cooper had to vote for someone other than himself, so Colin Powell it was. And it sure as hell wasn't going to be Pelosi now was it?

Freedom Caucus caves, Paul Ryan elected Speaker of the House

Ryan received 236 votes for the Speakership on the floor of the House this morning, Nancy Pelosi 184. 432 votes out of 435 were cast. I'm assuming Boehner, Pelosi and Ryan didn't vote.

The Republican Caucus in the House numbers 247 in the 114th Congress. The Democrats 188.

Story here.

45 Republicans voted against Ryan yesterday in caucus, but today Florida Republican Dan Webster received just 9 votes of the 12 cast for candidates other than Ryan and Pelosi (Webster voted for himself?).

Blue Dog Democrat Jim Cooper (TN), Democrat John Lewis (GA) and Colin Powell (!) each received one vote.

Rush Limbaugh Continues To Blame The Republican Base

Since the end of the first half of the second hour of the broadcast today, Rush Limbaugh again repeatedly blamed the Republican base for Romney's loss, instead of blaming the Republican Party for nominating the wrong candidate, and Romney for being the wrong candidate.

So not only did Romney blame the 47 percent who wouldn't vote for him, Rush Limbaugh continues to blame Republican conservatives for not voting for Romney. If you want to know what's wrong with the Republican Party, that's it. 

Romney was the wrong candidate, because he wasn't a conservative, and had no fire in the belly for anything, including holding Obama's feet to the fire. 

So what do Rush and Republican liberals like Colin Powell have in common? Criticism of conservatives. And Rush starts the show bemoaning the growing isolation of conservatives, and then proceeds to contribute to that isolation.

Gee whiz. Rush had a nice long weekend to rest up, and this is the best he can do? I swear he got more than a cortisone shot from that doctor he just met.

The time has long since passed that Rush should have retired.

Remembering Some Who Endorsed Obama in 2008

Just making my list, and checking it often.

Ken Adelman

Wick Allison, former publisher of National Review

Ann Althouse

Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University

The Daily Bail

David Brooks, The New York Times

Christopher Buckley, National Review

Jimmy Buffett

Governor Arne Carlson

Senator Lincoln Chafee

Ken Duberstein

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Susan Eisenhower

Charles Fried

Representative Wayne Gilchrist

C.C. Goldwater

Representative Ryan Grim

Merle Haggard

Governor Linwood Holton

Jeffrey Hart, National Review

Representative Joel Haugen

Rita Hauser

Larry Hunter

Douglas Kmiec

Representative Jim Leach

Scott McClellan

Scott McConnell, The American Conservative

Tim McGraw

John Mellencamp

Governor William Milliken

Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal

Kathleen Parker

General Colin Powell

Senator Larry Pressler

Ron Reagan

J.K. Rowling

Bill Ruckelshaus

Andrew Tobias

Governor William Weld