So now Jerrold the Hutt Nadler and the Dimocrats are going to hold AG Barr in contempt of Congress, yannow like Congress did to a more deserving AG, Eric Holder, who really did act as the president’s lawyer and did obstruct justice. Ron has some thoughts on that.

Just didn’t feel like walkin today. Not in the mood. So there! But then I get up and check the blogs, and all I’m getting is Cohen with his chicken joke about Barr’s refusal to come in for his iron-maiden fitting. Hate politics. Wish they’d fix the immigration laws instead of attacking a PotUS who’s actually fixin stuff.

The reason Nadler set up Barr to be grilled by his team of lawyers instead of actual House members was to create a no-win situation for him in terms of perjury and contempt of Congress. Either that or he didn’t want to give the guy another opportunity to blow the blowhards out of the saddle as he did with the Dems in the Senate.

He was trying to set up a kind of Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in which he would be the puppetmaster, a modern Spanish-style Inquisitor or primo matador, sending out his Cuadrilla of Toreros, Picadors, Banderilleros, and assorted Mozos and Perseguidores in a farce inquiry into a non-crime based on actual political chicanery by HRC and BHO.

Nadler, Schiff, Swallwell, Cummings, Pelosi, and especially Hirono have redesignated the words “Senator” and “Congressperson” to mean “Whiner” and “Nitwit.” Grassley’s drop-the-mike riposte to a reporter flogging the collusion/obstruction dead horse sums it all up as neatly as I ever could:

“O.K. Here’s where we are: The Democrats and you folks in the media aren’t concerned about [Mueller’s] report. You’re concerned only that the results aren’t what you expected. And now you’re finding out you were sold a bunch of snake oil and the jig is up.” Then he turned and walked away, letting response questions fall to the floor like dust in a wagon track.

When Barr decided not to attend the dunking and pressing and at-the-stake burning by lesser twits, the brilliant mind of Steve Cohen came up with the absolutely profound and magnificently appropriate metaphor to illustrate the move: greasy KFC with a grin on his face like he’d just solved the Riddle of the Sphinx.

Nadler, Hirono, Harris . . . and all the rest who just can’t get over the fact that your carefully rigged 2016 election was lost by a besotted errorist . . . you’re nothing but askholes, self-possessed crybabies who insist upon posing moronic, useless, repetitive questions in perpetual Congressional “investigations.”

You guys have a classic case of destinesia – finally getting to the place you worked to get to but forgetting why you came there in the first place. Please, try to remember that you work for US, not yourselves or the DNC. Do the nation’s business, not your party’s. Stop trying to climb Mountain Dew on an imaginary obstructosaurus.

Gowdy pretty much nailed this nonversation about collusion and obstruction when he said no requirement exists for it to be made public – that’s the AG’s call. Barr could have kept it confidential or released it in whole or in part as he saw fit. Any info in it not sufficient for charge or indictment is nothing more than material for a political smear.

For some reason, about half the 535 members of the national legislature are in advanced stages of Russiosis, a degenerative psychological disorder in which the mind is tricked into seeing Putins everywhere it looks.

A few of them, such as Schiff, Waters, Nadler, Cummings, are in terminal-stage investigitis, a permanent involuntary thought-lock which blocks all new facts and data because of the post-hypnotic “impeach” command lodged there by the Sorceress of Sleaze, the Conjurer of Chappaqua, the Absolut Queen of Crapulence.

Their problem is, of course, that after their best-laid plans for Her Rotten Heinous gang agley, they had their alphabet-soup operatives stage a coup, but nobody came. It was like a rainy day at Wimbledon with players slipping in the mud and falling on their broken rackets.

Funny the way things work out . . . Ben Franklin felt that our national bird shoulda been the turkey. For years I considered that the wrong bird. Now I’m not so sure any more. And for years I considered Kennedy a worthless president who was far too leftist for the good of the nation. Now I wish we’d had him instead DingleBarry.

As for poople such as Waters or Jackson-Lee or Wilson or Schiff or Swalwell or Cohen . . . they might serve useful purposes if properly detoxified, dehydrated, granulated, and worked into the feed bins in a commercial catfish farm. Bernie, Beto, Harris, Warren . . . well, they might be useful in practice sessions for the next Olympics as javelin catchers.

Heh! Heh! This is CNN.

CNN is planning to cut up to 300 jobs, “many being older employees with years at the network,” according to a report on Monday.

According to FTVLive, a website that monitors the television industry, “Word is that just under 200 people will be pink slipped and just over 100 will be offered a buyout.” Staffers are reportedly calling the cuts a “massive brain drain” because so many veteran employees are being given pink slips.

Hmmm. Whatever could be the cause of this? Could it be that no one watches CNN?

[…]
Aidan McLaughlin, an editor for Mediaite, tweeted that, according to a CNN source, the cable network is not making layoffs, but “more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program”

A CNN spox tells me there are no layoffs at the network, but more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program https://t.co/Z6bie8WPgi

— Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) May 6, 2019
CNN host Brian Stelter also knocked down rumors that layoffs were in the works.

There’s a rumor making the rounds today about big impending layoffs at CNN. A CNN spokeswoman is knocking it down on the record: “No layoffs.” There WERE voluntary buyouts throughout the organization, and about 100 people opted for it.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 6, 2019

“Voluntary buyouts’? That’s an euphemism for layoffs with separation pay. I can remember back when I worked for IBM we had all sorts of euphemisms for layoffs. One of them was “workforce rebalancing”. Your job went away and you had thirty days to find a job in another part of the company. If you didn’t you were “rebalanced” out of a job and were released with separation pay.

I started this blog when I still worked for IBM but to hide that fact I called it TCIDNN (The company I Dare Not Name). Just like with Scott Adams, people thought I worked for their company. Only three people figgered out I worked for IBM. One of them read one of my posts about a current layoff program and emailed me. “Dude, you’re busted! You work for IBM. I googled “workforce rebalancing” and came up with IBM.”

It’s not unusual for downsizing companies to offer voluntary buyouts, hoping to avoid layoffs, so we’ll have to wait and see if there is a need for cuts after the voluntary arrangements are agreed to.

The cuts come on the heels of devastating April ratings for CNN, with the lowest number of total viewers in five years. The network’s prime-time lineup plummeted 26 percent in April compared to the same month last year. CNN’s total audience in prime time was a pathetic 767,000. Compare that to Fox News, with 2.395 million viewers and third-place MSNBC with 1.660 million. CNN’s Cuomo Primetime was one of the hardest hit, with a mere 971,000 viewers in April — the worst month in the show’s history. Sean Hannity, Cuomo’s Fox counterpart in the 9 p.m. slot, dominated the ratings with a total audience of 3.086 million. Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight came in second, with 2.834 million viewers and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show was third with 2.630 million viewers.

Maybe riding the Russian collusion bullshit wasn’t a good business plan. Maybe people are sick of loudmouth Jim Acosta. Maybe people are sick of the constant Trump bashing. Look for even more downsizing at CNN in the future if it continues with its Trump bashing business plan.

At the rate CNN is going, its only viewers will be in airports.

The Clintons ended their Grifter Tour and it was a flop.

When the bottom fell out of the ticket market for An Evening With the Clintons, it really plummeted. The final date of their “speaking tour” is Sunday night in Las Vegas. A quick scan of tickets on Stub Hub for the Sunday night show offers tickets for as little as $15.00, at least when I checked late Saturday night.

A glance for tickets available on sale at Ticketmaster online shows they begin at $45.72 and go up to $257.18. I wrote about this tour back at the beginning of December and even then, ticket sales were slow and had to be discounted. Perhaps realizing they were on rocky ground, the two Clintons first took the tour to Canada as a soft opening before their American dates. The fine folks in Toronto were less than impressed and the ticket sales showed a lack of interest in the former President and his wife, the woman who felt entitled to the presidency but lost to her old friend Donald Trump.

I remember when the Grifter Tour started. Ticket prices were discounted and they didn’t come close to filling the venue.

The tour dates were scheduled in Clinton-friendly cities yet the struggle to put warm bodies in seats was real. Still, audience reaction has been mixed. Just last month in New York City, a tour stop brought Haitian protesters and a man in a front-row seat yelling out, “Bill, this is boring!” Ouch! That night at the Beacon Theatre, the moderator was Clinton loyalist and political consultant Paul Begala.

Friday night’s date at Seattle’s WaMu Theater brought out the true blue Clinton supporters. The stop in Seattle, a liberal haven in the great Northwest, included actor Bradley Whitford as the moderator. Does that name sound familiar? Whitford played the role of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in The West Wing. Whitford plays the role of a political activist in real life. This week he will co-host a fundraiser in Los Angeles for Mayor Pete’s presidential campaign. Ticket prices in Seattle were deeply discounted.

In deep blue Seattle. How much were they discounted?

The best seats in the house at Seattle’s WaMu Theater on Friday could be had for $829, a steep 54% drop from the $1,785 that the former first couple fetched when the tour was announced in early November.

But organizers soon had to slash listed prices and even offer discount ducats through Groupon to boost sales.

The official prices for Friday’s appearance ranged from $66.50 to $519, the Seattle Times reported.

Only a liberal idiot (redundancy alert) would pay that much to see the Clintons.

Hillary Clinton used a popular phrase with the left – we are in a constitutional crisis.

Yep! Because of a fake dossier that led to a witch hunt and because of a political party and candidate that refuses to accept the results of an election.

“I really believe that we are in a crisis, a constitutional crisis,” Hillary Clinton said. “We are in a crisis of confidence and a crisis over the rule of law and the institutions that have weathered a lot of problems over so many years. And it is something that, regardless of where you stand in the political spectrum, should give real heartburn to everybody. Because this is a test for our country.”

It’s a test to see if Crooked Cankles, Obungler, and the corruptocrats can get away with all of the crimes they have committed. If we had a genuine rule of law, Felonia von Pantsuit would be in an orange jumpsuit and sitting in a prison cell.

She criticized Attorney General Barr as she stated that Barr “would rather be the president’s defense lawyer than the chief law enforcement officer of our country”, as the Seattle Times reported. Funny, I don’t recall any complaints from her when the Obama administration’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, declared himself Obama’s “wingman”.

It’s different when they do it.

[…]

And then the best line of the evening occurred. Not surprisingly, it was Bill Clinton who delivered an unintentionally ironic remark. He said, “These people, they don’t believe the same set of rules apply to them that apply to everyone else.” I know. I laughed, too. Self-awareness is hard, y’all.

That’s different because shut up.

[…]

But wait, there’s more. The Clinton’s show moved to California Saturday night and tickets went for as little as $2.00. Wow. Imagine that. Some California Democrats listened to Bill and Hillary, a former president and a former Secretary of State (and the leader of pantsuits nation) in person for a couple of bucks That makes the $15.00 tickets in Las Vegas look over-priced, doesn’t it?

Paying to listen to BJ and the PIAP whine at even $2.00 is overpriced. Now I would pay to watch them do a perp walk off to prison.

A day late for this one. From Neil.

Or as Obungler calls it Cinco de Quatro.

Thanks to Chuck.

I just heard this for the first time yesterday on Sirius XM.

Let’s do Bach’s Lute Suites. Here’s the Prelude from the Suite in E Minor.

From Don H. (more…)

The circus was in town in DC and all of the clowns were on full display in both houses of Congress. It’s hard to pick out the chief clown. I’m gonna give it to Mazie Hirono one of the dumbest members of Congress and one reason we should have never made Hawaii a state. In hearings this week she called on Barr to resign as AG. Screw you bitch! You should resign as a member of Congress. You are a disgrace to your state.

I opened up the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation yesterday and saw this.

Stacey Abrams said Tuesday that she won’t run for the U.S. Senate in 2020 but left open the possibility she could launch a presidential campaign.

Abrams Tank for president! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Another Klown in the Kar.

The decision not to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue follows months of speculation about the Democrat’s next political step after her narrow loss in last year’s race for governor.

Which she still has not gotten over and she refuses to concede.

“I’ve been deeply honored by so many fellow Georgians asking me to serve,” she said in an interview. “But my responsibility is not simply to run because the job is available. I need to run because I want to do the job.

And I don’t know if I can quit whining about losing the governor’s race long enough to campaign.

”It leaves Democrats without their top recruit for the Senate race, which has essentially been frozen while Abrams has deliberated. Republicans, gleeful at her decision, rushed to describe the other potential hopefuls as “second-tier” candidates.

Which they are, but so is Abrams Tank after acting like a sore loser.

And it opens a new round of scrutiny over whether she will join the growing presidential field or emerge as a White House hopeful’s running mate, a possibility that heightened after she delivered her party’s rebuttal to the State of the Union.

C’mon in Stacy, the water’s fine. Noooooo! Don’t do a cannonball!

If she doesn’t make a White House run, Abrams is likely to prepare a 2022 rematch against Gov. Brian Kemp, who bested her by about 55,000 votes in a contest marred by allegations of voter suppression. After 10 days of legal wrangling and vote-counting, Abrams ended her campaign but refused to call it a concession.

Sore loser.

Her profile has only grown after that election as she’s traveled across the nation on a book tour. She’s hit the late-night talk show circuit, attracted sold-out crowds from Nashville, Tenn., to Seattle and drawn huge audiences to podcast tapings.

Which doesn’t help her in Georgia.

Closer to home, she’s trekked across Georgia on a “thank-you tour” to reconnect with supporters; appeared on local Super Bowl ads to boost her Fair Fight voting rights group, which is challenging state electoral policies in court; and sharply criticized the anti-abortion “heartbeat” measure backed by Kemp.

While her national image has soared, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll showed Abrams’ favorability ratings in Georgia have dipped. The poll, released in April, showed about 45% of Georgia voters view her favorably, compared with 52% in January. Her unfavorable rating jumped 5 percentage points to 45%.

The voters in Georgia don’t like her whining and refusing to accept the results of the election. The polls are the real reason she’s not running for the Senate. She’s now a friend of Schmuck Schumer. Georgia voters are seeing what a real leftist she is.

Maybe she can join Cynthia McCommie in California.