Trump Has Blamed Everyone for the GOP’s Midterm Meltdown—Except Himself and the Worst Member of His Staff

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) Wake up, little Susie. The gravy train went off the tracks. From CNN: So, the president is a) in a rage because his party got annihilated after he bounced around the country telling everyone to pretend he was on the ballot, which millions of Americans cheerfully did, and b) his solution is to put the least popular primate in his employ in charge of the White House.

I'm sure that this bodes well for his relationship with the incoming Congress, considering that any hearings about ICE and draconian immigration policies is bound to have Miller at a witness table. He, of course, was not "among those" Trump blamed for the loss. We have lost some of the highest flying of the flying monkeys in the House of Representatives.

However, the Republican reservoir of otherwise unemployable whackadoos remains bottomless. Meet Anthony Constantino, congresscritter-elect from that part of New York we like to call Baja Canada. Here he is, celebrating his victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2028 Republican National Convention keynote speaker. Ever since the Great Day of Reckoning dawned, I've been watching a number of interviews with the various new faces that have emerged. Specifically, I listened to James Talarico in Texas and Dr.

Annie Andrews in South Carolina. and both of them laid out their wish list for congressional reform. Both of them want a ban on congressional stock trading, an improvement supported by an estimated 125 percent of the American population. They both also expressed support for ... wait for it ... term limits.

Kept that baby in your pockets, didn't you? As is well known around the shebeen, term limits are the third worst idea in American politics. (The first two are a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and the elected judiciary.) They are a poisoned placebo. You end up with legislators led around by the nose by battalions of lobbyists, who end up empowered as the legislature's institutional memory.