Democrat Tom Suozzi beat Republican Mazi Pilip to take the New York congressional seat that was left vacant when Republican George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives.  Did you know that former speaker Kevin McCarthy not only lost his leadership, but he outright resigned from Congress?  There are now, I think, 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, with three vacancies, all Republican seats.  Speaker Mike Johnson's job is getting more complicated.   How important is just one more Democratic seat in the House?  Well, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas got impeached yesterday by one vote.  Had Suozzi been there, that would have failed again.  This matter dies here anyway, for the Senate won't do anything about any further impeachment.   About McCarthy , he now has time to work behind the scenes to hurt the re-election chances of Republicans who ousted him. About vitamins from  Wikipedia : Vitamins are organic molecules essential in small quantities for proper metabolic f

What is happening in the House of Representatives only draws comments of clown show and idiots.  Looks like no Speaker until next week.  Bipartisan solution?  On top of all that, former speaker Kevin McCarthy publicly blamed President Joe Biden's climate policy for catalyzing the Hamas attack.  Huh???   Read this . The  Arab World  is of course supporting pro-Palestinian protests, such as the one in Baghdad, Iran to the right.  Of course  Europe  had some of this, and police in Paris used teargas and water cannons to break up the banned rally.  However, there was also a sizable, but peaceful, gathering around Times Square in New York City.   Only in America . Israel is in a pickle.  They almost surely will expand their ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, but, as  The Atlantic  reported, Israel is  Walking into a Trap . You can't root out a terrorist group that runs the country. Israel has warned the populace of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to move away, but where do th

Biggest news of the day?   The House of Representatives voted to oust Keven McCarthy as Speaker of the House, 216-210 .  Never happened before in our history.   So what's next? At the beginning of his speakership, McCarthy filed into the record (kept secret) a list of names in priority order to the House Clerk to act in the case of his vacancy.   The person highest on the list shall act as Speaker pro tempore.   The first task will presumably be to vote on a permanent speaker.  But not necessarily.  There is no legal time frame for anything. Could McCarthy run again? Sure. Probably won't win a normal vote, so could well work out a deal with Democrats. But he has said  enough , and won't run again. Could Democrat Hakeem Jeffries run? Sure. But he won't get that position. Could Matt Gaetz become the next speaker.  Nope. Why?  Republicans are not idiotic as Gaetz. The second big newsworthy item is that no one won the Powerball jackpot last night.  Thus, you have until...we