The Stupid Cafe has been so swamped with customers that we haven't been back there for a while. ("Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded." Yogi Berra.) But there was a new house special on Wednesday morning that looked so delish that we couldn't resist sitting down at the counter and digging right in.

This tasty frontier grub was served up by Mike Rounds, the senator from South Dakota. He had some Stupid he wanted to share concerning the president*'s dalliance with Ms. Daniels, and how that encounter proves what a family man the president* really is. From The Daily Beast:



Berman, who co-hosts New Day, said: “This is a jarring juxtaposition, the president accused of writing payoffs to porn stars at the same time he’s conducting presidential business. As you look at this, are you OK with all of this?”

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Sen. Mike Rounds: Trump paid hush money to Stormy Daniels because "he loves his family and I don't think he wanted his family to go through this."



He won't say whether he thinks the payments broke campaign finance laws. pic.twitter.com/LJTItYUd5o — Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) March 6, 2019

Rounds replied, “Most of us have a concern anytime you have a president who is trying to work through some very personal matters...I honestly think this president loves his family. I think it has as much to do with trying not to have public discussions about something that is, for him, a private matter that he didn’t want to have discussed with his family. I think that’s a lot of it...I think he really does care about his family. I think he loves his family and I don’t think he wanted his family to go through this.”



I think we're going to have to do an extensive rewrite on the old law-school definition of "chutzpah," because the old one is clearly inadequate to this presidency*.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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