Commentary: Bill Straub: Andy Barr enthusiastically endorses Trump; question is, what’s he up to?
On May 9 of this year, a New York jury held the once and possibly future president of the United States, one Donald J. Trump, liable for sexually abusing an advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll, in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in 1995, awarding the victim $5 million. The presiding judge said the assault could properly be characterized as a rape. At least 26 women have accused Trump,...
OP-Ed – Bill Straub: House advances impeachment as Comer’s own questionable dealings come to light
If Diogenes the Cynic, lamp in hand, enters the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives today looking for an honest man or woman on the Republican side of the aisle, he will be doomed to failure.
The lower chamber voted Wednesday to authorize something already well underway – an impeachment inquiry targeting President Biden for, well, who the hell knows what. Primarily, it seems the probe is...
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Here we are again, after thinking it couldn’t get worse; Comer going for Dweeb of Year
I swear, by all that’s holy, I’m so sick of writing about the Tompkinsville Twit that I could just spit.
But here we are, friends. Every time you conclude our boy, Rep. Jamie Comer, R-Whereverhehangshishatishishome, couldn’t possibly sink any lower, couldn’t demean himself any further, he ups and provides the American public with yet another outrage, the sort that easily establishes himself...
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: McConnell will celebrate 39th anniversary in Senate and should consider his legacy
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, at 81, will celebrate his 39th anniversary as a member of the Senate come January.
Ultimately, history is unlikely to treat his tenure well, but there is one, simple step the Louisville lawmaker can take to save and enhance his tattered reputation.
McConnell’s sins over almost four decades are too numerous to list. He packed the Supreme Court with justices...
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Comer’s unrelenting quest to undo Biden curtailed by one pesky detail — the facts
It’s quite simple, really.
Given his ongoing craven attempt to impeach President Biden with nothing to back him up, any assessment of Rep. Jamie Comer, R-Whereverhehangshishatishishome, aka Snuffy Smith in a Wal-Mart suit, must consider three possibilities:
A) Is he really that incredibly stupid, so dumb that, as the great Dylan pronounced in Idiot Wind, “It’s a wonder that you still know...
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Now starts the speculation about what Andy Beshear might do in the future
Now that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vanquished Republican Daniel Cameron in his bid for re-election in the fire engine red Commonwealth of Kentucky (for the record, I thought Cameron would pull it off), speculation nationally is centered not so much on what Beshear achieved but what he might do in the future.
It’s time to put the cart before the horse once again and involve ourselves in...
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: McConnell’s ‘maleable political values’ serve to deliver the power he so desires
The Rosetta Stone required to determine just what it is that makes Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell tick can only be uncovered through the realization that obtaining power for its own sake, regardless of how it’s used or molded, is, for the Louisville lawmaker, the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
That understanding, and the subterfuge he is willing to provide to obtain his golden...
Bill Straub: Jamie Comer keeps making promises about ‘evidence’ — and keeps failing to provide it
More and more it seems our boy, Tail-Gunner Jamie Comer, is morphing from the congressman most likely to be mistaken for a member of the cast of Hee-Haw into Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife, a stumbling, bumbling misfit with no discernable job talents whatsoever.
Like poor Barney, Comer, R-Whereverhehangshishatishishome, should be limited to carrying a single bullet in his breast pocket for fear he might...
Bill Straub: A story of different kind of clash between two state titans, Sen. McConnell and Sen. Paul
While wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and other hot spots around this weary globe, a clash of a different, lower sort is shaping up, centered in my old Kentucky home between a pair of Republican titans – Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul.
There is, to his credit, no more solid a supporter of Ukraine in its battle with Russia than McConnell, of Louisville, the Senate Republican leader, who is consistently...
Bill Straub: Whiz kid Massie up to his old tricks as Republicans muddle toward leadership disaster
Wonder Boy Thomas Massie is at it again.
Massie, the Republican congressman from SomewhereorotherLewisCounty with a fancy degree from MIT and one of the weirdest voting records in the annals of Capitol Hill, has a well-earned reputation for, as they say in pre-school, an inability to play well with others. That was evident back in the days when he actively sought to undermine a pair of House GOP Speakers...
Bill Straub: Here’s a Plato(un)like idea — James Comer, U.S. Speaker of House; makes crazy sense
In Animal House — a classic film about an anarchic and rebellious college fraternity that closely tracks the current-day House of Representatives under Republican control — there comes a crucial moment when one of the protagonists (protagonists is used advisably here) known as Otter, offers a famous call to action: “I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely...
Bill Straub: What’s going on? Too much nonsense, hot air, phony-baloney games, but no democracy
This from a Mr. M. Gaye, formerly of Washington DC with paternal roots in Lexington, who asks the eternal question, “What’s Going On?”
Well, Marvin, nothing good. In the formerly sane state of Tennessee earlier this year, the House of Representatives, with a Republican super majority, expelled two Democrats, who just coincidently happened to be African-Americans, for suggesting that lawmakers...
Bill Straub: Ukraine aid is on the line — and Sen. Paul is on the side with Russia’s Vladimir Putin
Well, whadayaknow, John McCain was right all along.
McCain, the Arizona Republican with a curriculum vitae that notably includes his status as a prisoner-of-war, a U.S. senator and a candidate for president, who died five years ago, was no great fan of one particular colleague, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, who he once memorably characterized as a “whacko bird.”
McCain particularly didn’t...
Bill Straub: Maybe Daniel Cameron was premature in taking on popular incumbent Andy Beshear
Word is that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was hoping his protégé, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, would skip this year’s governor’s race and let someone else take on the popular Democratic incumbent, Andy Beshear.
It’s been speculated that McConnell, of Louisville, might have wanted Cameron to bide his time over the next four years by returning as attorney general and...
Bill Straub: House Republicans are moving along, without sufficient evidence, on Biden impeachment
House Republicans, unrenowned for their lucidity these days, are hell-bent to impeach President Biden, perhaps before the year is out, and might very well do so without sufficient high crimes and misdemeanors to even cover the head of a pin.
GOP lawmakers, who hold a bare majority in the lower chamber, are instigating the effort to drive Biden from office for only one definable reason – their messiah,...
