A cool, rainy Memorial Day weekend on my N.C. barrier island. Renters started arriving yesterday. They’ll be disappointed big time. No beach days. No cookouts. Domino’s will do a landmark business.

Republicans, as they always do, are playing chicken with the debt ceiling, knowing they can vote against raising it if they don’t get the cuts they want - without raising taxes or cutting defense, of course - while Democrats, as they always do, will blink, bite the bullet, and accept the cuts they don’t want and vote to pass it because they’re, unlike MTG et al., unwilling to have the disaster of default.

@DJNoneYa If it is true she spends less raising a child than for purchasing birth control, Child Protective Services should be alerted!

Rep. Comer essentially admitted that his committee’s investigation into Hunter Biden is to hurt the president’s favorability and boost Trump. Well, everyone knew that already. But still. Shades of McCarthy bragging back in the day that the purpose of the Benghazi hearings was to bring down Hillary Clinton.

Putin has put all those prosecuting Trump or refusing to give in to his election fraud claims on his list of sanctions. And that the woman killed trying to storm the Capitol was a simple protestor who was assassinated. This from an autocrat who routinely imprisons protestors of his regime. Never has his relationship with Trump been more blatant. Hey, I’m a thriller writer, but I wouldn’t have dared put this plot into a fictional story. No one - until now, I guess - would find it credible!

@Coctaanatis Of course we will! My point was to highlight the absurdity of the exemption for Congress.

If the U.S. defaults on its debt, Congress members will still get paid. But their staffers won’t. So we’ll have Congress, who was responsible for the default getting paid for doing nothing. Nice work if you can get it, right?

@WeThePeople Yup. And then we’d be back to the days in the eighteenth century when Congress had to decide everything. They do such a good job of that now, right?

@XaoslordErie Or Poulter or Westwood or Gooch, etc. The major winners can still play four times a year on the PGA tour until their exemptions run out - which is lifetime for the Masters. The other has-beens can thank their lucky stars LIV happened and wanted them! But even if Koepka becomes the next Tiger Woods, I’ll never pick him for one of my fantasy golf players. Or any of the others playing for the Saudi crown prince.

@Kaysymmetry Yup.

I wonder if Brooks Koepka now regrets selling his soul to LIV golf.

@Kaysymmetry Hello, Canada! Are you sure you aren’t watching TV stations originating in the U.S.? My understanding is that direct drug ads to consumers is prohibited in Canada. A loophole in the law allows a drug name to be mentioned, but not it’s use.

@Kaysymmetry Where is here?

Can Congress please pass a law banning pharmaceutical ads on TV? Only one other country in the world does that - New Zealand. No offense, kiwis, but what’s your excuse? Ours is Congress in the tank for big Pharma. So we won’t ban the ads that pit patients against their doctors. “Why can’t I have that drug? Everyone who takes it seem so happy on TV.”

From champ to goat. After winning the Masters in my fantasy golf group, I will be a bottom-feeder for the PGA. Oh, well. But I’m playing with OPM!

Retire now, D. Feinstein. Don’t be another RBG!

@JV3MJD Where it will go to die, as did the last referral to the Ethics Committee to oust Santos.

Here’s to all the mothers! We couldn’t have don3 it without you.

Self-fulfilling circular reasoning by Wall Street. “Stocks down as consumer sentiment drops.” Yeah, it’s dropping because the market keeps dropping!