Around The Horn Friday: Jack’s All In Edition
Well the big news this week was that Jack Markell has announced that he is running for Guv’ner. This will potentially set up the best campaign that we have seen in this state since I’ve been of voting age. All over it this week was Tommywonk with the pre-announcement and then the announcement coverage. More coverage at Liberal Delight, Kavips, and DWA here, here and here. Nancy is in also. Over at FSP they are trying to put on a brave face.
Speaking of FSP, there are some weird things going on and MOTSmitty has come out of the shadows to post on it. It looks like some angry Republican has an ax to grind and they are doing it with postcards mailed to the delegates. The first was posted on DWA last Friday.
FSP is also starting to feel the heat that is the DelawareLiberal.net radiator. According to technorati, FSP is worth more than Our Humble Blog. Methinks the County Chair doth protest too much. Plus Mitt is probably pouring money into their operation…
Congrats go out to the bloggers that had a hand in killing HB 161, including Dana and the Irish Phone Boy. Looks like we can finally have tax increases in Wilmington to fix the sidewalks!!! 🙂
On Bills that we should support, CBS has a call to action to support a bill to be introduced by Smitty’s and my rep, Dick Cathcart. Looks like the goal is to keep poop out of Lums Pond. Sounds good to me.
Kavips wants us to stop looking our local gift horse in the mouth. Seabiscuit starring Joe Biden. OK, I get it, it’s a horse race. We have some strong starters and Richardson is fading. Joe could be #4. Dennis McGlynn is just trying to figure out how he can make money betting on it.
Nationally, Ryan at Liberal Delight points out that Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas passed away this week. In Wyoming, if the Senator is a different party than the Governor, the Senator’s party nominates 3 people for the Governor to select to finish the term. The result? We don’t have the sort of vulture mentality we had when Tim Johnson had a stroke. We should look into that…
Ever vigilant, Tommywonk fills us in on another hurdle that Bluewater has gotten past.
Mike Mahaffie has a poll that he wants us to take about the readership of state-level political blogs like this one.
Merit-bound-alley has returned with a killer post about Politics and Religion.
Duffy at Pencader Days has a post about how even Peggy Noonan has given up on Mr. 32%.
MOTNewbie has officially hung up his “CLOSED” sign. I’ll probably drop his blog from the blogroll next week, but you can expect to see him posting over at FSP as MOTSmitty until Dave kicks him to the curb. I may do the same for the Liberalgeek blog.
KarmicJay has thankfully gotten back to full blogging strength. He has a great reason why you should buy your food from the local farmer.
Protack has a post on the problem with tax rebates in Brandywine.
Over at FSP, Dave is giving his O-face over Frank Luntz’s analysis of the Republic debate. I was struck by the part at the end of the clip when Luntz talked about how neither side is listening to the other. It doesn’t really bode well for Democracy, if you ask me.
Gazizza has a post about the Catholics Against Rudy website going up. Now I have a reason to root for Rudy.
Over at JttR, it is the return of the inane. Things That Are Bad is back, new and improved. Ryan laments the lack of international soccer on TV. Dude, If we had more soccer on TV, when would we have time to show Dancing with the Survivor All-Stars Idol?
Kilroy seems to be the only one talking about the smackdown delivered to Christina this week. Go get ’em Kilroy.
Hube administers a smackdown of his own on Fulcher and Jensen and their tin foil hats.
That’s all for this installment. We have passed the 3,500 Americans soldiers dead mark and at least 64,879 Iraqis have been killed. Bush is giving Merkel a backrub at a resort in Germany.
Tags: Around the Horn, Blogosphere, Delaware
. I may do the same for the Liberalgeek blog.
YES! I live in constant fear that you are going to change your mind.
Bush was photographed with a beer in front of him yesterday in Germany, and today he missed his morning meetings with a “stomach ailment.”
“Looks like we can finally have tax increases in Wilmington to fix the sidewalks!!!”
….since we all know the city government is so frugal and efficient with the $137,000,000 they are spending this coming year.
The city government is bleating about a “sidewalk tax” – since we all know a tax increase is necessary for each and every essential charter-mandated functions like this one.
Since they have so many other essential, critical programs to be protected too, I am suggesting a few other taxes, before the sidewalks, to protect these indispensable city services :
HOPE Commission Tax
Feel Good Festivals Tax
Mayor Baker’s Hemi Durango Tax
Gasoline for Mayor Baker’s Hemi Durango Supplemental Tax
John Rago Propaganda….errr, “Information” Tax
WITN-TV Ch. 22 Revenue Enhancement and Advancement Tax
Bogus Parking Ticket Surcharge
Additional Overcharge User Fee
Licenses and Inspections Retraining Levy
Send City Solicitors Back to Law School Tax
Get Rid Of Nixon Tax (I borrowed this one from a city white paper I uncovered)
Please email more suggestions to :
mayorbaker@ci.wilmington.de.us
MOTNewbie has officially hung up his “CLOSED” sign. I’ll probably drop his blog from the blogroll next week, but you can expect to see him posting over at FSP as MOTSmitty until Dave kicks him to the curb. I may do the same for the Liberalgeek blog.
Would you like a copy of the closed sign? Believe it or not, it was not that easy to find a decent image on the web.
Looks like the goal is to keep poop out of Lums Pond. Sounds good to me.
So, does that mean Jason will stop going to Lums Pond?
Actually Hube and I did join Kilroy in commenting on the Chancery Court decision blocking Christina from closing city schools. Hube sees the decision, based on Christina’s failure to adhere to the Neighborhood Schools Act, as a vindication that Wayne Smith was right all along.
Kilroy and I focus on the application of the law rather than the ideological intentions of its sponsor. The convergence between the two of us is a little spooky.
Kilroy: “The law is the law.”
Mr. Wonk: “But the law is the law…”
Dude, If we had more soccer on TV, when would we have time to show Dancing with the Survivor All-Stars Idol?
I fail to see how this point is not in favor of more soccer on TV.
Over at FSP they are trying to put on a brave face.
Are you kidding? I’ve ordered cases and cases of popcorn! Let’s get ready to rumble.
I don’t know how old you are, but the best campaign in recent memory has to be Carper-Roth 2000.
No, that campaign is symbolic of the campaign that SHOULD have been the best, Carper-Castle. We were all robbed, since either way one of those two dopes would have been walking the bread line.
There will never-ever be a Carper Castle race for anything. If you do not understand that fact you don’t understand Delaware politics.
So tell me, Mike, who would have blinked if Roth had decided to retire?
Tyler, you are a scream, keepin’ the heat on like nobody else can!
“So tell me, Mike, who would have blinked if Roth had decided to retire?”
It was widely known that Castle would have gone to the Senate and Carper back to the House, where he would have seniority. He then would have moved to the Senate in 2012 upon Castle’s retirement.
This Just Makes Us Cry http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=1962
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has tapped Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat, as a “national campaign co-chair,” the campaign announced yesterday:
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Rep. Hastings said, “When we elect the next President Clinton, this country will be a much better place for the African-American community, Floridians and all Americans.” . . .
“I am delighted that Debbie and Alcee will take on leadership roles in my campaign,” [Mrs.] Clinton said. “With their help, we will bring our message of change throughout Florida and across the country.”
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Who is Alcee Hastings? Ed Morrissey http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/010178.php reminds us:
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Hastings got appointed to the federal bench by Jimmy Carter in 1979. In less than two years, he got indicted for soliciting a bribe in an FBI sting. In 1983, he won an acquittal, but a subsequent House investigation found that he had committed perjury in that trial. The House Judiciary Committee authorized a whopping seventeen counts for impeachment against Hastings in 1988. . . .
Now Hillary has embraced Hastings, and indeed has made the former perjurer and corrupt judge as her campaign’s national representative. She says that with Hastings’ help, her “message of change” will get rolled across the country. The message is that the Clinton campaign has its own idea about the culture of corruption–they want to pursue it.
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We’re so disillusioned. We really thought the Democrats were going to be different!
It’s OK, I’m not a big Hillary fan either.