I decided that these mini-snippets of snark should be called ‘snarklets’, and today I have limited time, but a number of these little snarklets bouncing about in my head.
A nice little vacation?
Well, as you all know, Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned under duress yesterday morning after taking only 45 days to practically destroy the economy of the UK. So now comes the big question: who will replace Ms. Truss? From what I’m reading, there are three main possibilities and guess who heads the list? Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has only been out of office for the same 45 days that Ms. Truss occupied it. So … what this looks like to me is Boris, not-so-affectionately known as BoJo, wanted a little vacation, so the Tories hired Ms. Truss to fill in for him so he could have a month-and-a-half to spend cruising about the Caribbean, catching some rays, eating good food and drinking fine wine. Must be nice. And if they think Boris will be any better leader after his little vacation … think again.
Bye Steve!
Well, it looks like a small bit of justice has been handed down and Steve Bannon is actually going to prison for defying a subpoena to appear before the January 6th committee. He was convicted back in July on two charges of Contempt of Congress – one for failing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents requested by the committee. This morning, Judge Carl Nichols handed down a four-month prison sentence – about four years less than he deserves, but at least it’s something. Or is it? The judge ‘paused’ the sentence until Bannon’s appeal can be heard. Welcome to another episode of “Drag Our Feet”, for Bannon will likely be long dead before he sees the inside of a prison cell.
Boomerang LePage
Some politicians, usually the worst of the worst, just won’t go away … they keep coming back like a boomerang or more aptly, a bad penny. Just one example is former Maine governor Paul LePage, a blatant racist who was voted out in 2016. You can read some of LePage’s lunacy in my two 2016 posts about him: Another Unsavory Politician … LePage and Time For A Change In The Governor’s Mansion!. Suffice it to say that the man is one brick short of a dozen, is a cruel and bigoted excuse for a man, and yet he has the unmitigated gall to run for his old position yet again? Fortunately, it doesn’t look like he’s doing too well against incumbent Janet Mills. Which of these two people would you want for governor …
Okay, folks, that’s all the snarking I’ve got time for today but you know there’ll be more soon! Have a great weekend ahead!
On Thursday, in her first executive order on her first day in office, Mills ordered Maine to move forward with Medicaid expansion, which is likely to provide health insurance for an additional 70,000 Maine residents. LePage had been fighting tooth and nail to prevent Medicaid expansion in the state for years, vetoing no less than five different bills. Then, when the issue was passed as a separate ballot issue in 2017, he blocked it … went directly against the will of the people. Is it any wonder he lost his bid for re-election? Ms. Mills has certainly started on the right foot.
And then he plans to travel to the southern border on Thursday, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Now why would he feel a need to ‘address the nation’ on live television at this time? It isn’t as if we don’t have his opinions, his hateful rhetoric, shoved in our faces 24/7 by the media and on Twitter. But to interrupt prime-time television programming … presidents typically only do that when they have a major announcement, such as when Obama interrupted programming on May 2nd, 2011, to inform the nation that 9/11 master planner Osama bin Laden had been captured and killed.
McConnell refused to allow a vote on the spending bill that was passed by the House of Representatives, saying …
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