Gop Ground Game Focuses On Abortion

“It’s going to happen again. The Senate is about to jam the House once more — this time on the five-year FAA reauthorization bill,” Punchbowl News reports. “Regardless of when it ultimately gets done and what might hitch a ride on it, the House will have little choice but to swallow whatever the Senate passes to reauthorize the nation’s aviation programs.” “House GOP leaders know they’ll have to move quickly on the must-pass FAA bill when they receive it from the Senate, which could be well after the Friday night deadline.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's Christian Nationalist views are alarming, and Americans need to understand more about the Republican leader who is second in the line of succession after Vice President Harris. Speaker Johnson's beliefs are far outside the mainstream, and he believes that a  "depraved" America deserves God's wrath. The Louisiana congressman's beliefs are radical, even by today's MAGA party standards.

Ukraine’s security services said yesterday they foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top military and political figures. They said two Ukrainian colonels have been arrested on suspicion of treason. Via The New York Times: The Ukrainian domestic intelligence agency, the S. B. U., said in a statement that the plot had involved a network of agents — including the two colonels — that was run by Russia’s Federal Security Service, or F.

Above, The Police perform, King of Pain. It's not a secret that the Republicans are at heart monarchists, you know, as long as they are the monarchs. Let's explore why that cannot happen! Mike The Mad Biologist says Democrats are no longer the party of low propensity voters. Left Jabs notes that the GOP's weaknesses are greater than its strengths. Can It Happen Here asserts there's no king here. Amanda Katz has the BlueSky post of the day. Bonus Track: The Psy of Life celebrates Autism Appreciation Month. Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tried to say the buck stops with her after Newsmax's Eric Bolling suggested that perhaps her editor was "a liberal plant." Incredibly for real people, but not for Republicans, Bolling threw out that conspiracy over the scandal that Noem created by adding in her book that she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy in a gravel pit.

It seems we've reached the Robespierre phase of the Republican Revolution, where one week you're a patriot, the next your head's on the chopping block. Say hi to the guillotine, Marge (just don't try to spell it). Republicans have nothing to run on, as even they've said. Their fearful leader is stuck in a courtroom raging, sleeping and farting.