Archive for 2010
A Little Triumphalism on The Occasion Castle’s Defeat
I think my favorite Castle series was the one that showed how Mike Castle paid back a couple of large agra-businesses for $100 k in campaign donations with 103 tariff suspension bills. Basically, tax cuts that ended up costing the treasury at least $120,000,000 in lost tariff revenue. The year was 2006…
Wednesday’s Asshats of the Day
We have a tie for today’s award. It goes to both the Delaware Democratic and Republican State Executive Committees. Both groups decided to anoint people as their “officially endorsed” (read: preferred) candidates; the Democrats in the Treasurer and Auditor races and the Republicans in the US Senate and House races. In all but one of […]
Impossible to Satirize the GOP
Back in my blogging days I might have written something like this:Prediction: Fox News runs 7 straight weeks of investigative stories…
Did I Hear This Correctly?
Evan Q was just on Rick Jensen’s show, and I think I heard this: Evan said O’Donnell would probably attend the debate tomorrow night if the questions were provided beforehand. Jensen was shocked, started saying that he had never run a debate where the candidate had the questions beforehand, and then… they immediately went to […]
The Delaware Way Lives On.
The Delaware Way strikes again, and it benefitted the candidate that no one ever could conceive of benefitting. O’Donnell was airing negative attacks at Castle, sure. But the reality of Mike Castle, the all around “Mr. Nice Guy,” the beloved “Delaware’s Best,” Mike the Moderate, clashed irredeemably with his name attached to the myriad negative ads he ran. Mike Castle hasn’t run a negative campaign since… well, not in my adult memory. And it destroyed him, not O’Donnell.
Gremlin
All I can make of this is…someone didn’t follow the rules and got Palin wet and now we’ve got all these little fucked up Stripes running around spewing nonsense and threatening to shoot the GOP in the face at the bar.
How They Stormed the Castle: The Pyrrhic Victory
So how did this happen? There are two answers to the question, depending on what you mean by the question.
Miss Jamaica Concedes.
Alas, we don’t have Jamaican resident and heiress Michele Rollins to kick around anymore. She has conceded to Urquhart.
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