Same bud. And I agree with you about Offerman, the intro, and the portrayal of Conkling. I also loved Bradley Whitford’s crotchety and sarcastic James G. Blaine, probably because I identified with him most of all.

I liked his campaign’s answer but I know I would be a bad politician because I would have just said “yeah I like looking at hot women, sue me.”

The Bruce Harrell Deep State

Honestly the offer passes the CR and also bails out the GOP’s asses on ACA premium increases, and the GOP *still* won’t take it. Ultimately it just makes them look completely unreasonable and uninterested in helping people looking at insane premium hikes.

Smith was a tough guy to the point of being recklessly unaware of how close he was to getting lynched. The closest he came to death was during a speaking tour in Eureka, California, when, after getting kicked out if town, he and his bodyguard were kidnapped by fifty drunk Legionnaires.

His secretary Nora Dishong, was also a fighter.

Smith came in second in the race, but when he ran again he finished a distant third, in large part due to the post-war economic slowdown and the eroded power of unions in the county in the early 1920s. He never ran for office again after that.

Honestly “I was injured by a thrown sandwich and desire relief” is a case for Judge Judy, not an actual court.

It’s the same here in Washington State but reversed. Every electorally-viable statewide GOP candidate gets absolutely destroyed and forgotten. Candidate quality flip-flops between experienced and absolute freak.