MURDER CAPITOL

Mitch McConnell has constructed a blind to hide Republican fingerprints on a bill to raise the debt ceiling. Ten GOP Senators will vote with the enemy on a bill to allow the Dems to raise the ceiling all by themselves with 51 votes: Democratic votes only.

I wonder if McConnell understands what he's asking his caucus to do.

Republicans who vote for Democrat-backed bills (for any reason) are in for a lot of crap from GOP hotheads. Nasty calls. Screaming rants. Death threats, and so forth. Some Republican family might be missing Dad (or Little Susie) at Christmas dinner this year.

If so, they have only themselves to blame.

Republicans have quite deliberately constructed a monster and filled it with damnable lies designed to elicit violent action. And to make the game more interesting, they've loaded their creature up with lots of constitutionally-approved guns. Lock and load, everybody!

That sounds like fun, but can they be sure they know how to control that conspiracy-crazed beast?

There is nothing on this planet more dangerous than a human being who knows he's about to do God's work. Humans can't be wrong, you know. Being right, about everything, is baked in by evolution.

Doesn't matter what nonsense has been shoe-horned into your noggin, by definition it's certified golden, God-given truth. Get busy putting your solution into action: sharpen your knife, load your mags, get your camo-panted butt to Washington and let 'er rip.

Donald Trump mini-me Matt Gaetz was on the teevee the other day, rhapsodizing about how things will go when the GOP blasts its way back to power in 2022.

Forget about weak-ass work like legislating. That's off the table. He's looking for wall-to-wall investigations into the Dems' nefarious election steal. He's going to get to the bottom of that fictional well and suck it dry.

Such manic operations are like lightning storms in the sky above the tall rock walls of the laboratory, force-feeding raw power into the skin of the monster, energizing its limbs, packing its Abby Normal brain with incontestably divine motive to unleash the inevitable righteous rampage to come.

Break out the blood flag, Hans, there's a new mission coming in on the hot line.