The hits keep coming

Everybody knows the Gorgeous Ladies of the 116th Congress:  Ilhan Omar, the scary Muslim with the hijab; Rashida Tlaib, the equally scary Muslim who doesn't dress the part but knows a motherfucker when she sees one; Ayanna Pressley, incredibly the first African American woman to represent Massachusetts in the House; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, already renowned for the quality and quantity of her haters, throw in a cannibalism-murder conspiracy and she's La Nouveau Hillary; and of course the Wise Sisters -- Nancy, Frederica, Maxine and Sheila, warning, encouraging, mothering, disciplining as needed.  It is, as they say in baseball, a deep bench.  But wait, there's more!

Yesterday was the first time I heard of freshman Tom Malinowski, who displaced a Republican empty suit in the New Jersey seventh.  That's down to his expert bitch-slapping of Secretary of State and useless tool Mike Pompeo, the noted pee-partier.  Sorry, Tea Partier.  The topic was Trump's second-favorite dictatorship North Korea, whose Congressionally-mandated sanctions he partially cancelled via Twitter last week.  It's spring, the last of the cherry blossoms were on display, and he felt like doing something impulsive and crazy for Kim Jong-un ("We fell in love").  Malinowski began innocently enough, asking why Trump loves Communism in the Hermit Kingdom but loathes "socialism" in Venezuela.  Pompeo's response was right out of the Daily Worker circa 1943:  "The government there will evolve over time."  Imagine, a Kansas Republican who believes in evolution.  Malinowski pressed on:  Does Kim operate brutal concentration camps?  "He's the leader of the country."  Did he order the murders of his uncle and his half-brother?  "He's the leader of the country."  Is he responsible for the death of the American student Otto Warmbier?  Thankful to be on firmer ground, the SoS expressed his admiration for Warmbier's family:  "I know those people.  I love them dearly."  Move to strike all the weasel's answers as unresponsive, Your Honor -- I'm sorry, I thought this was Law and Order.

I did a little research, and the picture became clearer:  Between 2014 and 2017 Malinowski was Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and I'll bet all these chips in front of me that the job has been vacant ever since.  But it gets better.  Tomasz Malinowski is an immigrant, born in Poland in 1965.  That means he can't run for President, but we don't need more people doing that anyway.  We need more people making life miserable for Trump and his courtiers, and Tom Malinowski won the week.