The very fluid race for the GOP nomination got even more fluid this week.

Guliani: Tanking. The word is finally getting out about Guliani. I predict that he will not be the front runner this time next week.

Romney: Lost a lot ground to Huckabee last week but managed to stop the hemmoraging. He is spending obscene amounts in Iowa in order to be able to limp into NH not looking too much like a complete loser.

Huckabee: Busting out of the third tier in dramatic fashion got him noticed by Romney who went on the attack with news of an Arkansas “Willie Horton” which slowed him down. Is he ready to be the front-runner?
McCain: Highest trading numbers since back in July. Some of the Guliani mirage is heading his way. He is also probably also picking up the “I can’t fucking believe these choices” vote.
Ron Paul: The “money bomb” finally got Paul some attention and some of the Guliani mirage is headed his way, but is he “for real?” You’ll know when Romney starts attacking him.

Fred Thompson: Who?

It’s awesome! Fed to lend $20 billion to banks It’s sort of like the Hybrid’s that the American car manufacturers were first to make instead of the Hummers Japan made.

It’s awesome if you stop to think about it. You see in our Psuedo-Free Market-Adam Smith-Invisible Hand-Friedman-Corporations only have to make money-Economy the more you screw up and the bigger you are the more likely you are to get help from the government.

How sweet it must be to be an American Bank that can pressure corporations to perform by squeezing pennies, out-sourcing jobs, laying off tons of Americans, blaming the vicitim for being swindled, not giving raises that offset inflation, going to war, cutting taxes, continuing to allow the pay of corporate senior management to increase to over400 times the guys in the middle they look to fire, allowing kids to be poisoned by lead, tell us to eat less fish to avoid mercury poisoning, all the while not have to worry about going bankrupt. How awesome!

Man, Friedman was fucking brilliant. It’s like a period scheme

Well – Ive been punked. it seems someone who knew that I would jump at this sent me a clip from a different Castle press release. Sorry about the rush to misjudgement. The press release had nothing to do with Wind power.

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This is as direct and forceful a statement from the leader Delaware’s GOP that I’ve ever heard:

” I support acting immediately to avoid the potentially catastrophic repercussions of climate change by reducing emissions of harmful greenhouse gasses and enacting the kind of reform business and industry need to grow the economy and stabilize the climate.

“Our work has just begun.”

Wow! That was a speedy smack down of Terry Spence. I guess Castle is taking his leadership role seriously for a change.

Huge Minner/Carney Failure of Leadership

Here is how Tommywonk writes up the utter BS that went down:

Russell Larson, the controller general, quoted the Lloyd Bridges character in the movie Airplane, “I picked a bad day to give up smoking.” (I don’t know whether Larson smokes or not.) He went on to explain that he represents 62 members of the General Assembly. (Not that he has discussed this will all 62 members; he has met with the legislative leadership.)

Har dee har. Funny joke Russell. However, what is not so funny is that Delmarva Power’s Gary Stockbridge and his paid henchmen in Leg Hall (Terry Spence, Charlie Copeland et al) have scuttled the Windpower project.

This is complete Bullshit.

Here is Spence Via the NJ

House Speaker Terry Spence, R-Stratford, said he was concerned about the cost of the project, $1 billion to construct 150 turbines off the coast of Rehoboth Beach.

“I have a feeling, in talking with other elected officials, that the possibility of a huge expense down the road, long-term, was one of the reasons why there was some hesitation, and it’s probably why it’s been tabled,” Spence said.

The Minner/Carney administration has utterly failed to exercise any leadership in this. The whole thing is putrid.

Meanwhile, Tom Noyes seems to be filling a void left by the abject uselessness of the Minner/Carney administration. He kicked off “round two” of decency’s  face off with Stockbridge with this:

Tom Noyes, whose Tommywonk blog is widely read among Delaware environmentalists, expressed optimism the issues could be worked out.

 

“We’ve got the facts on our side, we’ve got the law on our side, we’ve got public sentiment on our side. Now we just have to get talking to our legislators,” Noyes said.