Saturday politics
Well, let’s start with the low hanging rotten fruit – after all, she got beat. I refer, of course, to Dallas’ own Jasmine Crockett, soon to be ex-Congresscritter Crockett, and hopefully never Senator Crockett.
As could have been predicted, one of the Democrats who always used to excoriate Republicans over their claims of rigged/interfered with/fraudulent elections, is bleating about what? You got it, her election loss was rigged. Those damn white Republicans, of course. Seems basic math is not her forte – she lost by almost SEVEN percentage points. Not quite a landslide, but then, not a fraudulent “let’s tip the election our way” point or two. Even “her” supporters and people are talking about it – and not in a good way for her.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, faced criticism from members of her own party on Wednesday following her loss in the Senate primary, including one who said the progressive firebrand ran an “f—ing terrible” campaign.
“People who don’t understand politics will be upset because Jasmine was their hero,” said Democratic Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones. “But for people who understand politics, [Crockett] literally had no ground game.”
Her campaign manager, Karrol Rimal, is still cheering:
“This was the most expensive Democratic primary ever in Texas with the overwhelming majority of those dollars being spent on attacks against the congresswoman,” Rimal told Politico. “Despite being outspent, she held our own and excited an untapped base of support for Democrats with record numbers of first-time primary voters. There was also the intentional voter suppression of voters in Dallas and Williamson counties. That can not be ignored.” Fox News
I like that ” an untapped base of support for Democrats” – does that mean the recently deceased? (Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice ! Beemphmph! (apologies to Tim Burton. Besides, that should have been directed at Lauren Boebert.)
A similar view came from the Dem’s own James Carville, who had this to say about Ilhan Omar:
“Lady, why don’t you just get out of the Democratic Party,” Carville said about Omar in the May 2025 video from his Politics War Room podcast. “Honestly, start your own movement.”
Lawmakers like Omar, he added, are “more trouble than they’re worth.”
I met her one time and first of off, she’s a very, attractive, soft-spoken lady. I have a lot of friends in in Minneapolis and people think, a lot of people think well of her, but she started attacking white males and I’m gonna say, wait a minute, let’s stop. Alright. In 2024, 72% of the people that voted were white. All right? That’s just a fact. Of that 72, probably 48% or 48 and a half, were male. So it’s somewhere around, I did the math on the thing, about 33% of the people that are gonna vote are gonna be white males. Well, it’s stupid to attack 33% of the voters.You don’t wanna start there.
Getting noted for all the wrong reasons, ladies.
Another in the news for the wrong reasons: Pam Bondi. (Hey, gotta be evenhanded.) The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Bondi over the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein investigation. Five Republicans voted with the Democrats to subpoena her.
This is the same committee controlled by Republicans (emphasis added – ed.), led by Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, that forced Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify behind closed doors last week.
It was a different one, the House Judiciary Committee, that took Bondi’s testimony last month in a four-hour-long televised session that was supposed to have satisfied calls, at least among Republicans, for greater transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration on the Epstein investigation. It did not. Instead, Bondi’s testimony inspired mockery on the left and even more questions from Mace and other Republicans on the right.
The consensus among lawmakers from both parties was that Bondi had been defiant, evasive and disrespectful toward the victims of Epstein’s abuse.
The vote means that Comer is required to issue the subpoena for closed-door testimony from Bondi, where she will be under oath and subject to perjury laws. Tampa Bay Times
Drag out the popcorn, maybe we’ll get to see some of the show.
Category: Politics
