COMMENT RESCUE: Sagacious Steve says, “And if ethics in government is such a Republican clarion call, when will the legislative leaders holding up windpower reveal any involvement they might have with Delmarva?”
Great point. Why don’t these Republican lobbyists for Delmarva REALLY stick it to the Democrats by fessing up?
Delmarva Power sure is lucky to have these guys on the payroll.
“Clean” coal anyone?
I knew someone was going to be holding the bag and it wasn’t going to be the banks (thanks Mike Castle!).
Anyway. I’ve got to be honest I have no sympathy for some nit wit who bought a $350,000 house for $550,000 because they thought it was going to be worth $750,000 in a few years.
I just don’t.
Some young people register to vote at the same time they apply for a driver’s license, yet may NOT realize they may be able to vote BEFORE they turn 18 in Delaware.
Here’s the deal:
If you’re registered, and you’d be 18 in time for the November general election, you have the right to vote in the coming Delaware Presidential Primary and the September Delaware Primary elections.
Here’s the question:
Can we use this information without seeming like the creepy middle-aged guys that we know we are? Be honest.
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Hmmm…
Some blogger at the University of California takes a few pot-shots at us and our second best University (snark). Be sure to stop by and remind him that he has an action hero for a Governor and other weirdnesses of Cali.
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It has never happened in my lifetime, but we have a shot at it this cycle. It is a situation where no one candidate has enough committed delegates to win the nomination going into the convention. This is more likely this cycle due to the compression of the schedule. If we have an equitable distribution of wins through Super Tuesday, things are going to get desperate. 29 states will have voted by February 6th (27 Republicans) including New York and California (including two states that have been stripped of their Democratic delegates).
I heard Tony Blankley of the Washington Times say that he has upgraded his hotel room at the Republican convention to a suite to allow for people to meet in there, should it be brokered.
We have already seen a number of odd voting events in the past few years (see Florida, State of) so why not an all-out political brawl at the conventions? Sadly, I think that such a situation on the Dem side would benefit Hillary, it is much more fluid on the Republican side, but it’s early. Either way, it is going to get interesting.
Celia sure picked a strange time to have some journalistic integrity. Perhaps it is because Biden ran afoul of Cohen’s sense of history. She is nothing if not nostalgic.
Regardless, if this perks to the national press, it could be the end of Biden’s 2nd run for the nomination.
I’m not linking to it.
This is how far we have come:
Irwandi Yusuf, the governor of Indonesia’s Aceh Province, bluntly said to me: “We don’t believe the Americans in this administration.”
One of these god damned days people are going to get angry enough to do something about this shit. I’m disgusted as an American and embarrassed too.
Hillary Clinton and her driver were cruising along a southern country road one evening when an old cow loomed in front of the car. The driver tried to avoid it, but could not. The aged bovine was struck and killed.
Hillary told her driver to go to the farmhouse and tell the owners what happened. She stayed in the car to make phone calls to lobbyists.
About an hour later the driver staggered back to the car with his clothes in disarray. He was holding a half-empty bottle of expensive wine in one hand; a rare, huge Cuban cigar in the other; and smiling happily, smeared with lipstick.
‘What happened to you?’ asked Hillary.
Well,’ the driver replied, ‘the farmer gave me the cigar, his wife gave me the wine, and their beautiful daughter made mad passionate love to me!’
‘My God, what did you tell them? ‘ asked Hillary
The driver replied, ‘When they answered the door I said, ‘I’m Hillary Clinton’s driver and I’ve just killed the old cow.’ The rest happened so fast I couldn’t stop it.’
Dave Burris (for his myriad of faults and just wrong-ass shit that he believes) is a credit to his party. The open government movement has taken a huge leap forward this week and he needs, not only congratulations but support.
Having said that – he is still a partisan hack when it comes to pointing the finger of blame for the sorry mess that we are in. Like me, he tends to view the sins of his fellow party members as lesser sins.
He seems willing to give Charlie Copeland and Terry Spence a pass when it comes to being on the take with regard to wind power – just I tend to shrug off McDowell and Thurman Adams’ opposition to open government. [For the record, I once dismissed “open government” something that is important to bloggers but does not resonate much outside of the blogs.]
So where does that leave us? My feeling is that if you pull the lens back on both issues a the truth that comes into focus is that these issues are not so much Repub vs. Dem issues but are “power fossils” vs. everyone else issues.