SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:  

TAKING ON THE MEDIA – FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT:  Texas Trump supporter Kyle Courtney bought a billboard to bash ABC News over their “unfair” and “excessive” coverage of the Russia investigation.   The Boerne, Texas resident has the following message on his billboard:  “I grew up with you. We are through. The Russians didn’t elect Donald Trump. I did.”  Great message.  Click on the link to see the actual billboard.  Despite all Trump's problems, a number self-inflicted, his support in at least some polls is holding at a respectable level.   And he and his followers regularly do better in actual elections than in polling. 

PARTYING AGAIN – FROM STRAITSTIMES:  UBUD, Indonesia (AFP) - Barack Obama has kicked off a 10-day family holiday in Indonesia that will take in Bali and Jakarta, the city where he spent part of his childhood, officials said on Saturday (June 24).  The casually dressed former president arrived in the resort island of Bali with his wife Michelle and their two daughters, a local military commander said.  "They arrived late last night and went straight to the hotel in Ubud," a local military commander, I Gede Widiyana, told AFP.  One thing Barack Obama learned to do as president was to party.  He is the world's expert, and certainly deserves to run the entire world, based on that talent.  That's right, isn't it?

CALIFORNIA FLOPS ON HEALTH CARE – FROM THE SACRAMENTO BEE:  Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon put the brakes on a sweeping plan to overhaul the health care market in California Friday, calling the bill “woefully incomplete.”  Rendon announced plans to park the bill to create a government-run universal health care system in Assembly Rules Committee “until further notice” and give senators time to fill in holes that the bill does not currently address.  “Even senators who voted for Senate Bill 562 noted there are potentially fatal flaws in the bill, including the fact it does not address many serious issues, such as financing, delivery of care, cost controls, or the realities of needed action by the Trump administration and voters to make SB 562 a genuine piece of legislation,” Rendon said.  A few minor problems.  Neither party has addressed health-care legislation on the state or federal level with the seriousness it deserves.  Both parties will have trouble facing the voters next year. New parties anyone?

June 24,  2017