champing at the bit

After a week where Donald Trump unveiled one of the strangest Cabinets in recent memory, "Saturday Night Live" was champing at the bit.

He has made it plain that he is champing at the bit to oversee Trump's massive deportation plan, revealing that wholesale deportations are the goal.

Indeed, Trump is champing at the bit to again enact huge tax breaks for the richest 1 percent and corporations.

The supplemental investigation was simply a #MeToo-era exercise in providing cover to Republicans who wanted to appear to take the allegations against Kavanaugh seriously — when in fact they were champing at the bit to confirm another ultraconservative justice.

They may be peaceniks but they are champing at the bit for a war of their own and it looks like Mexico will be their enemy of choice.