Tony Sinclair wrote: "Thanks for ruining my New Year’s Eve. "
Sorry, Tony.
Fine with me. At 80 she won’t last long.
No chance we’re gonna be needing an ethics committee moving forward.
First thing we do, we kill all the watchdogs.-Paraphrasing Shakespeare.
From that front page rightmost column piece:
Pulling their worst tricks in secret. Typical Republicans. Just as in Wisconsin. The Party of Pepe is like a group of monkeys. One or two of them around are kind of cute, but when there’s a mob of them they start throwing shit all over everything.
They bailed. Its all over the news.
Whada ya know? You can’t fool all the people all the time. 
Today, the Republicans, now in the majority, began to enact their carefully considered agenda…
Trump even joined in, Tweeting to criticize the plan. Just after his blonde spokesmodel was defending it on TV…
He criticized the timing. He has no problem with the gutting.
Trump rides in on his white horse to save the day!
Yeah, Trump twitterated 'em. Good. although while doing it he added, “even though it’s unfair.” Why is the ethics board unfair? Because it’s always Repubs with no ethics?
They will slip it through quietly sometime in the next 6 months. Calling it now.
The idea that progressives are either stupid or evil, instead of both at once. 
You really do think you’re clever, don’t you?
The head of the North Carolina Environmental Agency, who thinks there’s too much environmental protection going on, was worried about being fired by the new Democratic governor, so he gave himself a civil service job that the Governor can’t fire, and stepped down from his political position.
https://thinkprogress.org/nc-regulator-holds-on-for-one-more-term-f51d19031827#.sp3uzotmr
He may someday learn how to construct sentences so that they.
Aren’t so disjointed.
The board was originally created because of two Republicans who were convicted of bribery in the Abramoff scandal *and *one Democrat.
Power corrupts, it is true, but corruption often follows after power. For the recent times, ambitious scoundrels have gravitated to the Republican Party, because that’s where the opportunity was.
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater