OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

WORDS OF WISDOM AND NOT JUST ABOUT HOT DOGS:

NEWS YOU CAN USE?

CUTTING OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE: House GOPers are moving to impose a 48 percent operating budget cut on the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the “investigative arm of Congress.” They’re also rewarding the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which never met a GOP tax cut it couldn’t trash, with a $20 million budget increase.

I explain the backstory in my latest Substack column, which BTW has been re-christened Tapscott’s Copy Desk, which may ring a few bells for old-timer Instapunditeers here.

UNEXPECTEDLY:

It won’t become a reality, but still, it’s fun to dig this 2016 Photoshop that accompanied a VDH article headlined “A Nation of Laws—Sort Of” out of the archives:

 

BUILD BACK BRANDON:

STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:

(Classical reference in headline.)

THIS IS CNN: