This isn’t about term limits. Remember that we have a President with dementia and we have term limits for the president. The problem is twofold. First, voters need to be more responsible with their votes. Second, politicians need to have some sense of dignity and honor and step down when they are incapable of doing the job. But yes… term limits or a maximum age limit would help. It will take a constitutional amendment either way.

A Republican congresswoman from Texas has not cast a vote in the US House since July while she has been grappling with “dementia issues” and residing at a senior living facility, according to her family – something she did not disclose to the public before a Dallas media outlet figured out where she was during her prolonged absence.

 

Kay Granger, 81, has represented Texas’s 12th congressional district, which includes part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, since 1997. And beginning in January 2023 she spent more than a year as the chairperson of the powerful House appropriations committee.

 

But months after announcing her plans to retire when her term ended in early 2025, Granger largely disappeared from the public eye. Her congressional website shows her last vote was on 24 July, opposing a measure to reduce the salary of the deputy assistant administrator for pesticide programs to $1 just days after Joe Biden canceled his presidential re-election campaign over questions about his age and mental fitness.

Oh shucks. I guess we can shut down for a few weeks. Darn.

WASHINGTON — A House Republican bill to fund the government for three months and suspend the debt ceiling for two years failed Thursday night, as dozens of rank-and-file Republicans voted against the deal endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump.

 

Without a deal to fund the federal government and legislation that has passed the House and Senate and been signed into law, a partial shutdown is set to begin late Friday night.

A total of 38 Republicans voted against the bill hammered out by their own party’s leaders. The 38 were joined by every Democrat, save for two who voted in favor and one who voted present.

The first real test of the post-election GOP caucus was a disappointment. This bill was a ridiculous mess of spending, bad policy, and waste. We’ve had enough.

Already, the massive 1,500-page bill was on the verge of collapse, as hard right conservatives rejected the increased spending, egged on by Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk who rejected the plan almost as soon as it was released late Tuesday night.

 

Rank-and-file lawmakers complained about the extras, which included their first pay-raises in more than a decade — a shock after one of the most unproductive chaotic sessions in modern times.

While establishing Post Offices and Post Roads is a power specifically delegated to the federal government in the U.S. Constitution, it does not mean that the federal government is required to exercise that power. Nor does it mean that the federal couldn’t delegate that power. While I am not convinced that privatizing the postal service is in the best interests of the U.S., I think we all can agree that there has to be a better way. Perhaps privatization would relieve the post office expensive and onerous unions and expenses to allow them to be solvent.

(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has in recent weeks expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.

 

The U.S. Postal Service, which has lost more than $100 billion since 2007, reported a net loss of $9.5 billion for its fiscal year ending Sept. 30, $3 billion more than last year, largely due to a year-over-year increase in non-cash workers’ compensation expense.

LOL.Comer wants to ensure maximum media coverage of the Oversight Committee’s work.

REP. JAMES COMER, R-KY.: I think that if you look at the current leadership with the oversight committee on the Democrat side, they’ve had Jamie Raskin leading them. So the Democrats have nowhere to go but up. Jamie Raskin has been wrong.

ARTHEL NEVILLE: So then how will AOC make you go up — or make the Democrats go up?

 

REP. JAMES COMER, R-KY.: Yeah, well, she’s better spoken. Look, I think that, you know, the Democrats are turning on AOC. My endorsement of AOC is probably hurting her, which… I think is amusing. They’re wanting to go back to another boring old guy like Gerry Connolly. But look, AOC is, you know, I think she represents a big segment of the Democratic Party that believes in socialism, that believes in the Green New Deal, that believes in Wokeism. So, if the Democrats want a real Democrat to lead the oversight committee on their side, I think AOC is perfect for them.

Will anyone get fired over at ABC?

ABC News has agreed to pay $15m (£12m) to US President-elect Donald Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he had been found “liable for rape”.

 

George Stephanopoulos made the statements repeatedly during an interview on 10 March this year while challenging a congresswoman about her support for Trump.

 

A jury in a civil case last year determined Trump was liable for “sexual abuse”, which has a specific definition under New York law.

 

As part of Saturday’s settlement, first reported by Fox News Digital, ABC will also publish a statement expressing its “regret” for the statements by Stephanopoulos.