Sorry, American-flag-wearing, Bible-banging female Trumpster in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District: All your beseeching of the Almighty couldn't drag your porn-stache candidate, Rick Saccone, over the finish line last night.
But maybe God wasn't even listening to her. Maybe he was too busy talking to Stephen Hawking about the laws of science — which, if you think the deity is responsible for everything, God must have created. Right? Oooh, never mind — now we've got her head spinning.
In the meantime, we're excited about Conor Lamb winning this Pennsylvania squeaker. Although we were a little annoyed that it wasn't by six points like Monmouth University said it would be. So we're left with trying to decide if it was better to have Saccone wiped out immediately — or tantalized with the prospect of winning, only to be crushed in the end. Guess we'll have to go with the latter.
Meanwhile, the ever-loathsome Paul Ryan decided to point out the obvious and call PA-18 a "wake-up call" for Republicans in Congress. But if it's a "wake-up call," what will woke Republicans do? Investigate Trump-Russia? Really fix Obamacare instead of trying to destroy it? Give up trying to control every uterus in America? Quit suppressing the vote? Call out Trump when he acts like a boor? Do anything to protect our sacred democratic institutions instead of helping to tear them down?
Sadly, we fear the answer to these questions are no. The Republicans may get their "wake-up call," but they will continue to do nothing — except maybe double down on selling their ridiculous tax bill, killing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, handing out mulligans to hypocrites and traitors, and toadying to the NRA. We cats HISS.
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