Rethugs Practice Under Heavy Security

Roughly eleven months after the shooting at an Alexandria, VA baseball field where Rethuglican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was wounded by a gunman, Rethuglican members of Congress gathered for softball practice this morning, heavily guarded by Capitol and local police. You can be certain that each and every one of these self-important, cynical pols got significant campaign money from the National Rifle Rampage Association. The key point is that they're "heavily guarded," in a security bubble that the vast majority of Americans don't have the luxury of having. They'll continue to ignore public sentiment that background checks need to be strengthened, that sales of guns to kids under 21 needs to end, and that other control measures need to be taken (including banning assault style weapons -- 68%).

Here's hoping that no violence comes to these sheltered SOBs, but that the 2018 ballot will send them back to the minors.