December 17, 2021: Roger Stone Pleads the Fifth. Repeatedly.

12/17/21: With each passing day it becomes more apparent why GOP lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives wanted no part of an investigation into events surrounding the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill.

 

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Have you ever had sex with your wife?

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Today, Trump whisperer and pardoned-by-Trump-seven-time-felon Roger Stone appeared before a congressional panel. Asked what he knew about events of that day, Mr. Stone plead the Fifth to every question.

 

The session went roughly like this: 

Questioner: Mr. Stone, have you ever had sex with your wife? 

Stone: I refuse to answer on the grounds that I may incriminate myself.

 

Q: What is your favorite color? 

Stone:  Blu…I mean…I plead the Fifth.

 

Q: Is it true you were pardoned by President Trump. 

Stone: I plead the Fifth.

 

Q: It is public record that you were pardoned by the president. Do you realize you can’t take the Fifth reflexively for every question? 

Stone: I plead the Fifth.

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Meanwhile, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem – Donald Trump in a skirt, but sexy at least – recently blasted President Biden for blowing up the federal deficit and passing a $1.9 package of COVID-relief. She said she considered rejecting her state’s share. You know – good fiscal conservativism. 

Then she decided she’d take all the cash she could but keep faulting President Biden for his profligacy. 

In the same vein, as noted by The New York Times, Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana called on  Biden and the Democrats in D.C. “to turn off the spigot of out-of-control spending and get inflation under control.” In the very next breathe he decided to use some of the $906 million in stimulus money that was coming to Big Sky Country to invest in nursing homes and return-to-work bonuses. 

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida also complained about the Biden plan but decided not to slap away the federal hand which held out a check to the Sunshine State for $8.8 billion. Nor can we remember the day when DeSantis – or Gianforte – or Noem complained about their Orange God blowing up the federal deficit in fiscal years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. In just four years (and all we got for our money were tax cuts for the rich, two impeachments, and an attack on the nation’s capital), President Trump rang up $6.5 trillion in new deficit spending, after taking over from Mr. Obama, who ran deficits of “only” $2.2 trillion in his second term in office.

 

Indeed, if we don’t round off, Noem and company loved Trump, whose deficits totaled $6.528 trillion in four years and hated Obama, whose deficits totaled $6.549 trillion in eight years. 

Also: Did you know that red states, generally speaking, suck up more in federal dollars, per capita, than blue states? 

Well, now you do. 

For even more fun, consider comments by purported-deficit hawk Sen. Rand Paul, who voted against providing federal relief to Northwestern states after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2103, vs. Sen. Rand Paul clamoring for aid to Kentucky after tornadoes tore a path through his backyard earlier this month.