Morning Coffee

++Is Mullah Omar finally dead? Or is this an Abe Vigoda joke. Afghan government officials are investigating whether the Taliban's Mullah Omar died over two years ago. Then what was the story a few months ago that Mullah Omar wanted peace talks?

++The Koch Brothers are "freezing " The Donald out of their political structure. I love how Politico can say this with a straight face and not comment on whether private individuals should have "front groups" and political data. The idea is to prevent the Donald from building a professional political operation. The Battle of the billionaires.

++Meanwhile we in the Beltway, can't wait for Congress to leave before it does more damage. It now has an approval rate of 8%. 

++Rep. Meadows has filed a petition to remove John Boehner as Speaker of the House because he has weakened the power of congress.

++Mitch McConnell has made some agreement with Rep. Lee that he will pursue the repeal of Obamacare through reconciliation, which would make it veto proof. The two men say that it would be a bill that would be in effect on January 2017 so that a Republican President could sign it. Another reason that you need to vote in a Democrat President and Senate. It seems to me the GOP are measuring the drapes a little early.

++Since there are no reasons, the GOP wants to end any federal funding for Planned Parenthood and will waste their time on abortion and birth control before the summer recess.

++The House is going to introduce an anti-gay measure under the guise of religious freedom to protect heteros from icky gay married people.

++It's still God, Gays and Guns for the GOP.

++Mike Huckabee doubled down on his statement that President Obama is leading Israelis to the doors of the ovens. He said that he knows because he has seen the doors of the ovens at Auschwitz. 

++Huckabee says God is more real to him than clouds. Seems to me the GOP position on climate change. 

++Hillary Clinton has waffled three times on her answers about the Keystone XL Pipeline and that is creating a fuss among her critics.

++Hillary will be testifying before the #Benghazi! committee sometime in October. The GOP will be trying to go for the knockout punch.

++Rick Perry says that if you go to the movies you should take guns.

++Chris Christie says that enjoy the dope while it lasts because he is going to crackdown when he's President. Phew! Nothing to worry about there.

++The Bernie-Hillary duel is getting interesting but Hills still maintains ginormous leads against Bernie. Concern is that she is lapsing into 2008 mistakes. 

++Bibi says there is nothing to talk to John Kerry about because he put Israel's fate on the negotiating table.  Kerry is visiting the Middle East but didn't schedule Israel.

++Leon Weseltier ,the man accused by former Israeli ambassador Oren as a self-hating Jew, breathes fire against the Iran nuclear deal. I'm not surprised by the venom against President Obama.

++In past years, this blog worried whether President Obama would get out of the country as his Asian trips were postponed. Now I wish he would come back so some sense of reality would intrude on America.

++There seems to be an epidemic of African-American women dying in jail cells. I guess this is a ploy to make people think there is racism in the country. The Susan Bland case raises more issues every time the authorities open their mouths. Eating marijuana ? Really? The demon weed. 

++John Boehner proposes a three-week funding bill for highways. Ahhm, now how does that work? Have you noticed how budget bills fall off the cliff with these guys? 

++What is it ? 16 months before the Presidential election. Is there a magic formula where the GOP can say presto, chango and look like there are ready to govern.

++My conservative e-mail is exultant that consumer confidence is drooping and that economic indicators are wobbly. They have revved up their supply side machine. I have received detailed explanations about how liberals don't understand Reaganeconomics. Since they don't know. It's called having Paul Volker at the FED crushing inflation and cutting top income tax rates and creating large national debt. El problem is that we don't have soaring inflation and our tax rates are below Reagan's time. 

++The other conservative e-mails are that "liberals" and the world Left--there is now a World Left--want to install the new world order with the Iran nuclear deal. The unanimous approval by the Security Council of the Iran deal is just a preliminary step to making President Obama the secretary-general of the United Nations, fulfilling his Leftist agenda. I kid you not.

++There have been over 130 pro-confederate flag demonstrations since the killings at Brother Emmanuel. 

++Meanwhile Obamacare premiums in California are slated to rise only 4% this year.