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Getting even better in Baltimore: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lamar-jackson-negotiation-seems-to-be-getting-worse-for-ravens-010655834.html

First of all, I would hate to see Hurst leave, let alone got to an AFCN rival, let alone the Browns. But, it would be fun to watch hubby and the son's reaction to this if they let Njoku go. Both of them really like him, for some reason.

Meanwhile, in Cleveland, this drama may be starting: https://www.10tv.com/article/sports/cleveland-browns-could-restructure-deshaun-watsons-230-million-contract/530-e5e48288-4742-4423-b4b9-0afb0742d415 Yeah-good luck with that. Browns are currently 14 million over the salary cap.

Good article on Drew Pitt (last season’s preseason hero). https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/2023/02/25/drew-plitts-enjoys-xfl-experience-with-arlington-renegades-former-bengals-ball-state-and-loveland-qb/69943215007/

Didn't he stay with Whit and his family when he was doing his rehab?

Good read. Thanks for posting. This is what I keep trying to explain to my hubby why I prefer Burrow over Herbert. He has "it". Call it perception, call it a knack, call it whatever you want. He just has "it".

The Ohio House Republicans are feuding, too. They elected a Speaker of the House who worked with the Democrats to get elected and the 22 Republicans who voted for him were censured by the state Republican Party. 😂

Agreed. I don’t think he’s about the money or the bragging rights about being the highest paid QB. He wants to win. Period.

True. Here ever after, I will refer to Lauren Boebert as “Look at Me Lauren”. 😂

There was an Op-Ed in the Columbus Dispatch today by Connie Schultz, who is a prize winning journalist and Sen. Sherrod Brown’s wife and part of it does call out Boebert. It mentions that she only won by 546 votes. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/01/06/january-6-capitol-riot-house-speaker-vote-republican-split/10988458002/

Didn’t Little Miss Lauren Boebert’s election have to be recounted because it was so close? That should serve to remind her that a large part of her constituency would like a more moderate and willing to compromise point of view from her instead of her mega right wing stubbornness. But if she is like most Congresspeople , she’ll ignore the minority who voted against her anyway.

Republicans promised their voters an ambitious agenda, including securing the border, outlawing abortion, getting inflation under control, investigating Hunter Biden, etc. They can't even elect a Speaker of the House. 😂 Methinks that they won't get nearly as much done as they promised, especially with a Democratic Senate and President.

Only because the Federal Appeals court with 2 Trump appointees upheld it. It’s only good for this election.

Yes, there was, but their idea of bi-partisan was 5 Republicans (including the governor and the AG, I think), and 2 Democrats. The maps right now are only good for 2 years, but with the Republicans controlling everything, it will be lather, rinse, repeat in 2024. The only thing that kept these maps only good for 2 years was the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice siding with the Democratic justices and she is now retired.

Watching Faux News (and no, I don’t actively watch this-I just happen to be in the room when it’s on.) still claim this is embarrassing 😳. You want proof that the Republicans are power hungry-look at Ohio and how badly it’s gerrymandered right now (and probably will be for years to come.)

He would probably be considered too moderate for today’s Republican Party.

Agreed. In Ohio it’s even worse because the Republicans have a stranglehold on the state and unfortunately, for the next two years and possibly beyond, it will continue because the state is so gerrymandered. The current legislative map is only good until the next election because it wasn’t agreed upon by the commission (comprised of 5 Republicans and 2 Democrats) and was rejected as unconstitutional numerous times by the Ohio Supreme Court but upheld in Federal Court (with 2 Trump appointees on it). But if Republicans continue to control the state (and they probably will), then the same thing is going to happen for 2024. Lather, rinse, repeat. 🤬😞

Out of curiosity, where would you draw the line?

Who would want it right now??? LOL!!

Some would debate that Obama and the Clintons are not liberal enough for today’s Democratic Party. But some of the ideas that are being thrown out there, especially about some of the green initiatives, are unrealistic. Do you think California is going to have the electrical infrastructure in place by 2035 to ban gasoline car sales? Do you think the rest of the country would be ready for a similar initiative? My sister recently experimented with driving her EV from Virginia to Cincinnati and what is normally a 7 hour trip turned into an overnight trip because West Virginia doesn’t have any fast charging stations. And what’s going to power these electric stations? I’m all for clean air and I believe that the threat of global warming is real, but I just don’t think that getting away from gas and oil won’t happen for a long time.

I’m not fond of what the Democrats are doing right now, but at the same time, I can’t vote or take seriously any Republican who is maintaining that Trump won the election, or any Trump supporter, really. Here in Ohio for the Senate race, we have JD Vance, who was an anti-Trumper until he got his endorsement, and is cringey for a million other reasons, and Tim Ryan, who at least tries to work with the Republicans (and gets criticized by the radical left for doing so.) TBH, if Matt Dolan had won the Republican primary, I would probably vote for him in November over Ryan. I think a lot of the reasonable congresspeople on both sides, who want to work together for the common good, are drowned out by the louder and more radical voices on both sides and feel like they have to fall in line or lose their seat. It’s sad 😔.

Faux News and all of their collective "contributors" were losing their collective minds last night. All the usual suspects were whining about this-Lara Trump, Eric Trump, Jim Jordan, Marc Levin, and others. They were calling it the "end of democracy" and 'weaponizing the FBI and DOJ" amongst other things.

Part of the whole Mexican prejudice does have to do with drugs, given Vance’s family history with drug addiction, which was the basis for “Hillbilly Elegy”. (Which I have not read, nor have any desire to read.)

I know, right? I guess opinions can change but I’m still scratching my head over that endorsement. But I did find it amusing to watch the Republicans fight each other during the primary season. Some of the ads I heard were just plain bizarre.

Well, the Trump endorsed Republican Senate candidate just won the Republican primary here in Ohio. 🤮🤢Granted, almost all of the Republican candidates sucked this year.