Last things

Did you know you can't drink alcohol on the floor of the House of Representatives?  I don't know about the rest of the building -- some of those people are not legally qualified to drive -- but not in the hallowed chamber, where apparently guns can be carried.  Anyway, outgoing Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC) toasted the end of his one term by opening a can of "Joint Resolution" ale but not imbibing.  It's that lack of commitment that stalled his political career.  What are they gonna do, Joe, censure you?

Bigger doings elsewhere.  For instance, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller cancelled further cooperation with the Biden transition team because everyone is too busy trying to grasp the extent of the catastrophic Russian hacking at DoD and elsewhere.  (You know it will turn out to be Obama's fault, him and his "wire tapps.")  They're enraged that Biden proposes to end work on WALL, some of the money for which came from, let's see, the cybersecurity budget.   How about that?  Not to worry, Trump is on the Twitter:  "Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded."  The hell with all the missile data, hang onto that obsession with "election hacking."  

Other Trump obsessions got an airing this week:  the water pressure in his damn shower, the Supreme Court ("I am very disappointed...and so is our great country!"), the election he lost ("We won Wisconsin big.  They rigged the vote!") and -- wait for it -- John McCain.  "Check out last in his class John McCain, one of the most overrated people in DC."  Also dead for over two years, but sure, why not?  Nothing about Rosie O'Donnell?

The Pfizer vaccine distribution is proceeding about as well as everything else the executive branch has touched in the past four years.  The company says it has millions of doses ready to deliver if only someone would tell it where.  Even red states are getting shortchanged, so it's not your basic revenge, it's your basic blithering incompetence.  Some suspicious types are beginning to ask who's found a way to profit from this, as they did last winter when Slumlord-In-Law Kushner told the states they couldn't have any from his stockpile of ventilators because they were his, go get your own, Governor Cuomo.  See, that's what happens when news breaks about shell companies and missing money.  Loss of faith.  Some people are whispering that Trump has a bigly share of Moderna, whose vaccine was approved today.  Stop whispering, mean people.  So vicious.

It's December and we know what that means -- decorations, presents and government shutdown.  Moscow Mitch can't even get his demented caucus to keep the lights on, much less do something for those wonderful people out there in the dark.  Some leader.  I wonder if the Magic Bus containing Sarah Palin and her Merry Wanksters is still rolling through Georgia in an effort to keep him in power.  Democrats say the Warnock/Ossoff cause benefits every time Trump snarls at Kemp and Raffensperger, which is daily because he continues to have lost Georgia.

Could Wilbur Ross's Commerce Department have had its thumb on the scales when the FAA cleared the Boeing 737 Max for takeoff (and subsequent crash in Ethiopia and Indonesia)?  What do you think?

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Have to get a bigger chart.