Opinion – Bill Straub: Unable to guide ‘increasingly sneering’ GOP, McConnell stumbles yet again
For a certified political genius who knows all the levers to pull and bells to ring, the master of the…
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Opinion – Bill Straub: Don’t KY’s AG, House have enough to do other than to intrude on border issues?
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and members of the state House of Representatives apparently don’t have their hands full addressing…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell finds himself on the spot; question is can he hold on to power?
After 17 years finagling and conniving as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell finds himself on the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell have their difference; try to count the ways
Sen. Rand Paul, that sentinel of good sense and comity, hopped aboard the Never Nikki express running through the Republican…
Opinion – Bill Straub: This is a circus, dear readers, and Gomer Comer lies and flirts with pornography
Besides the fact that they are both proud sons of the old Commonwealth sod, what do Rep. Jamie Comer, wherever…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Daniel Cameron to the rescue, tilting at ‘woke’ windmill to save the ‘American Way’
Apparently unable to find honest employment after his Failed with a capital F gubernatorial campaign, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel…
Opinion – Bill Straub: KY’s delegation contributed to broken 118th Congress; more of it isn’t looking great
Let’s face it, you’d have to be a few tics below the IQ level of Mortimer Snerd to dispute the…
Commentary: Bill Straub: Andy Barr enthusiastically endorses Trump; question is, what’s he up to?
On May 9 of this year, a New York jury held the once and possibly future president of the United…
OP-Ed – Bill Straub: House advances impeachment as Comer’s own questionable dealings come to light
If Diogenes the Cynic, lamp in hand, enters the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives today looking for an…
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Here we are again, after thinking it couldn’t get worse; Comer going for Dweeb of Year
I swear, by all that’s holy, I’m so sick of writing about the Tompkinsville Twit that I could just spit….
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: McConnell will celebrate 39th anniversary in Senate and should consider his legacy
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, at 81, will celebrate his 39th anniversary as a member of the Senate come January….
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Comer’s unrelenting quest to undo Biden curtailed by one pesky detail — the facts
It’s quite simple, really. Given his ongoing craven attempt to impeach President Biden with nothing to back him up, any…
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Now starts the speculation about what Andy Beshear might do in the future
Now that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vanquished Republican Daniel Cameron in his bid for re-election in the fire engine…
Op-Ed – Bill Straub: McConnell’s ‘maleable political values’ serve to deliver the power he so desires
The Rosetta Stone required to determine just what it is that makes Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell tick can only…
Bill Straub: Jamie Comer keeps making promises about ‘evidence’ — and keeps failing to provide it
More and more it seems our boy, Tail-Gunner Jamie Comer, is morphing from the congressman most likely to be mistaken…
Bill Straub: A story of different kind of clash between two state titans, Sen. McConnell and Sen. Paul
While wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and other hot spots around this weary globe, a clash of a different, lower…
Bill Straub: Whiz kid Massie up to his old tricks as Republicans muddle toward leadership disaster
Wonder Boy Thomas Massie is at it again. Massie, the Republican congressman from SomewhereorotherLewisCounty with a fancy degree from MIT…
Bill Straub: Here’s a Plato(un)like idea — James Comer, U.S. Speaker of House; makes crazy sense
In Animal House — a classic film about an anarchic and rebellious college fraternity that closely tracks the current-day House…
Bill Straub: What’s going on? Too much nonsense, hot air, phony-baloney games, but no democracy
This from a Mr. M. Gaye, formerly of Washington DC with paternal roots in Lexington, who asks the eternal question,…
Bill Straub: Ukraine aid is on the line — and Sen. Paul is on the side with Russia’s Vladimir Putin
Well, whadayaknow, John McCain was right all along. McCain, the Arizona Republican with a curriculum vitae that notably includes his…
Bill Straub: Maybe Daniel Cameron was premature in taking on popular incumbent Andy Beshear
Word is that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was hoping his protégé, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, would skip this…
Bill Straub: House Republicans are moving along, without sufficient evidence, on Biden impeachment
House Republicans, unrenowned for their lucidity these days, are hell-bent to impeach President Biden, perhaps before the year is out,…