Opinion — Bill Straub: Massie cites three reasons for urging Speaker Johnson’s resignation; then what?
For a Whiz Kid with fancy-schmancy degrees from some snooty college in liberal Massachusetts who has more patents than Edison (okay, that’s hyperbole, but play along for a second), it sure seems like Rep. Thomas Massie has a problem figuring out 2 + 2 sometimes.
Massie, R-SomewhereorothwerLewisCounty, is, to put it nicely (as opposed to those who might prefer more scatological references), a gadfly...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Fathoming the unfathomable is just incomprehensible, no matter how you look at it
I confess to having spent a preternatural amount of time over the past eight years trying to figure out the nation’s obsession with a bloated, overweight, orange-hued man whose hair is of a color not found in nature.
And, I must admit, I’m no closer to reaching a resolution on this matter than I was at the outset.
Donald John Trump is an odd animal for anyone to hail as their hero. His sins are...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Immigration emerges as GOP’s ‘Rosetta Stone’ to reclaiming White House
The road to the November elections is growing shorter and MAGA Republicans are confidant they have uncovered the Rosetta Stone that will guide them toward victory.
The answer is simple – brown people.
Immigration has emerged as perhaps the only sure-fire issue at the GOP’s disposal and they’re riding it like Calvin Borel along the rail at Churchill Downs. They’re making no secret of using that...
Opinion – Bill Straub: What’s “anti-American” about a surge in energy options and a focus on environment?
Rep. Brett Guthrie, who to this point has proven as exciting as a bowl of day-old oatmeal, has apparently decided to stir things up a bit, joining the MAGA crowd to declare that President Biden is being downright “anti-American.”
The issue drawing the consternation of the Bowling Green Republican is energy, maintaining the administration’s policies have “crippled American energy independence...
Opinion – Bill Straub: By any other word these actions would still be the same — just call it racism
Let’s call this what it is – soft-core racism.
Over the past several sessions the Kentucky General Assembly has attracted a well-earned reputation for punching down on many of the constituencies it is reputed to represent. Last year it heaped abuse upon transgender kids, essentially laughing in the face of Sen. Karen Berg, D-Louisville, whose trans son committed suicide. Two years ago it placed...
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell endorses the Rapist; can’t help but wonder what’s gone wrong
It’s finally official – the heralded and brilliant Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell thinks The Rapist should be elected president of the United States.
Hyperbole? Think again. A duly constituted jury in the state of New York, sitting in judgment at a civil trial, concluded that some time in late 1995 or early 1996, one Donald J. Trump, the once and, perhaps, future leader of this nation,...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell’s period of reign most ‘consequential’ in recent Senate history
The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution lasted less than a year.
Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate Republican leader, a positioned he announced he will be exiting after the November elections, has lasted a record 17 years.
So, choose your poison – a quick beheading during one Reign of Terror or a 17-year tape loop of the Louisville lawmaker droning on about domestic policy during another?
Sacre...
Opinion – Bill Straub: GOP’s foreign aid and border debacles lay bare polarity between Paul, McConnell
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul, who has proved over the years to be as useless as a fishnet handkerchief, has recently managed to sink below his usual substrata standards by suggesting that certain initiatives he opposes and, by association, those who support those initiatives, are un-American.
Last week it was noted that Paul, R-Bowling Green, in reference to proposed legislation to strengthen security...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Unable to guide ‘increasingly sneering’ GOP, McConnell stumbles yet again
For a certified political genius who knows all the levers to pull and bells to ring, the master of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, sure seems to trip over his own shoelaces a lot.
On Sunday, McConnell, the Senate Republican leader from of Louisville, said the upper chamber must be “prepared to act” on a monumental, bipartisan measure to bolster security along the southern border and provide...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Don’t KY’s AG, House have enough to do other than to intrude on border issues?
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and members of the state House of Representatives apparently don’t have their hands full addressing the myriad of problems facing the Commonwealth, so now they’re going to help run the state of Texas as well.
Coleman has expressed his support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is embroiled in a death match with the White House over the millions of folks from...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell finds himself on the spot; question is can he hold on to power?
After 17 years finagling and conniving as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell finds himself on the spot. His maneuvering over the next few days could determine whether he can maintain the confidence of his caucus, not to mention what sort of impact it might have on his already shaky legacy.
McConnell, of Louisville, has been involved over the past several weeks attempting to forge...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell have their difference; try to count the ways
Sen. Rand Paul, that sentinel of good sense and comity, hopped aboard the Never Nikki express running through the Republican presidential primary this week and did so in a way that provided him with an opportunity to take a nasty shot at an erstwhile compadre – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Paul, R-Bowling Green, for some reason felt compelled to publicly declare he won’t be voting...
Opinion – Bill Straub: This is a circus, dear readers, and Gomer Comer lies and flirts with pornography
Besides the fact that they are both proud sons of the old Commonwealth sod, what do Rep. Jamie Comer, wherever he claims to hale from these days, and the late magazine publisher Larry Flynt, of Salyersville, have in common?
Both men promoted pornography.
That revelation leapt to the fore on Wednesday during a hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, chaired by Comer, R-TheFrankfortHook,...
Opinion – Bill Straub: Daniel Cameron to the rescue, tilting at ‘woke’ windmill to save the ‘American Way’
Apparently unable to find honest employment after his Failed with a capital F gubernatorial campaign, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has hopped aboard the think tank gravy train that will undoubtedly pad his wallet nicely while simultaneously providing him with a plethora of opportunities to hit the links in his early retirement.
It was announced this week that Cameron will become...
Opinion – Bill Straub: KY’s delegation contributed to broken 118th Congress; more of it isn’t looking great
Let’s face it, you’d have to be a few tics below the IQ level of Mortimer Snerd to dispute the proposition that the 118th Congress is broken, perhaps irretrievably so.
And guess which delegation has wholeheartedly contributed to this disaster. Kentucky, you should be so proud.
This Congress has been entertaining, in a peculiar sort of way, inducing the sort of muffled laughter you might encounter...
