I’m not following the Hamas-Israeli conflict, but as sportswriter Hugh Keough (not Damon Runyan) observed, “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.” An even safer bet: Palestinians in Gaza will bear the brunt of the human cost. Another sure winner: The bombings will continue until morale improves.
With the latest war gobbling up pixels, ratings are slack for the House GOP production of “Who’s the Boss?” the palace-intrigue dramedy that took over the Running D.C. Story slot from the swiftly axed “Lappy!” In our story so far, the race between Jimbo, the molester-adjacent ex-wrestler, and Steverino, the KKK-adjacent groin-shot recipient, has hit a snag: a pair of Kave-in McCarthy loyalists who swear they’ll vote for nobody else. And I do apologize for the Steve Scalise joke – that was a cheap shot that hit below the belt.
The Inquirer’s Will Bunch examines a persistent polling paradox: The Biden economy has created nearly 14 million jobs but voters still think Trump could do better. Well, “think” is probably the wrong verb.
RFK Jr. has decided the Democratic Party doesn’t deserve him, so he’s going to run for president as an independent. This is bad news for Joe Biden, because it’s going to cost him the anti-vax/anti-Trump independents, a voting bloc about equal to the number of RFK’s siblings who denounced his candidacy via Xitter. Just another triumph from the superbrain of Steve “No Mirrors, Please” Bannon.
The floor’s yours.