Bill Straub: What the Kentucky legislature lacked was a heart and soul and a ‘true champion of the people’
Paul Mason was one of the more conscientious members of the Kentucky General Assembly back in the 1980s and ‘90s….
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Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell is no prize as party leader but what can we expect in his successor?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the earth mother of the new, mean-spirited Republican Party, was attending some sort of right-wing confab…
Bill Straub: Jamie Comer is on a misguided, multifaceted roll indeed — and he’s in over his head
From his ham-handed mangling of congressional probes that makes Inspector Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes, to his stupefying lack of…
Bill Straub: As ’24 Republican race for president heats up, is Rand Paul a vice presidential choice?
Sen. Rand Paul ran an infamously inept campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 when he was under the…
Bill Straub: Giving himself a birthday present, he’s writing about guns — and the insanity of no limits
I’m writing this column on my 70th birthday. In so doing I find myself recalling the words of that great…
Bill Straub: A Chinese spy balloon wasn’t the only thing full of hot air to get shot down this week
That wasn’t the Sword of Damocles that went bob-bob-bobbin’ over the nation’s breadbasket last week. It was a ChiCom spy…
Bill Straub: Comer is up to his neck in ‘brown gold,’ determined to get in deeper; but no civil rights
Interesting article in The Guardian recently (hat tip to my friend Art Jester for pointing it out) about what is…
Bill Straub: From calamity to farce, House speaker election highlights a GOP circus lead by the clowns
Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you approve? One who keeps tearing around One who can’t move Where are the clowns? Send…
Bill Straub: The ‘new/improved’ McConnell –a softie? an obstructionist? a liberal? a team player? a jerk?
Could it be that the vaunted Grim Reaper is actually a softie – or (gasp) maybe even a liberal –…
Bill Straub: Comer achieves the seemingly impossible with latest spate of nonsense
From the Giving the Devil His Due Department, Rep. Jamie Comer is miraculously achieving something that anyone with the least,…
Bill Straub: As it turns out, an ‘old crow’ can indeed learn new tricks, so McConnell-Trump game is afoot
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is proving that even an “old, broken-down crow” can learn new tricks. Actually, in this…
Bill Straub: Jamie Comer, the facinating Rubber Man, is turning into a MAGA hero before our very eyes
It has become easy to view Rep. James Comer as the political equivalent of an especially painful hemorrhoid – he…
Bill Straub: McConnell’s vote against the ‘respect’ for his own marriage is hard to explain — so he doesn’t
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is usually as transparent as glass – whatever enhances the GOP politically, despite potential repercussions…
Bill Straub: Jamie ‘Hee-Haw’ Comer just can’t walk away from Hunter Biden ‘investigation’; about John Y.
Like Ali Baba chanting “Open Sesame” to enter the mouth of a cave holding great treasures, Rep. James Comer has…
Bill Straub: Now that the election is over and R’s lost opportunities, let the games begin in earnest
The election is over. Let the recriminations begin! What say we start with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, generally viewed as…
Bill Straub: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose — but big loser Tuesday was definitely Donald Trump
WASHINGTON – The late Al Smith, my old mentor, and a renowned raconteur used to tell a story about Frank…
Bill Straub: Rand Paul’s viciousness could be put to real harm if he becomes chair of Senate committee
Sen. Rand Paul is a buffoon. But he may soon become a buffoon with a microphone and a gavel, which…
Bill Straub: Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been challenged in the past — but never like this
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, in what thus far has been a year of political discontent, seems to be picking…
Bill Straub: Jamie Comer, with the governmental acumen of Goober Pyle, is puffed up with spotlight
There’s a reason you ought not let a two-year-old handle a .44 Magnum, and it’s the same reason you shouldn’t…
Bill Straub: McConnell will go down in history as worst majority leader ever; Trump may be his demise
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell holds the only political position he has ever coveted and he has no desire to…
Bill Straub: We live in strange times absolutely. Don’t believe it? Just listen to the Republican silence
It’s the case of Addison Mitchell McConnell and the Curious Incident of the Dog That Didn’t Bark. In fact, a…
Bill Straub: DeSantis treated immigrants’ lives like game board pieces in assault on common decency
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated…