Archive for October, 2012
Late Night Video — President Obama Tells You Why Trump is Mad at Him
Awesome sauce and hysterical. One of the things that I like about President Obama is that when he is ready to own somebody, he knows how to do it without breaking the china. Trump is probably losing sleep over the fact that this Kenyan dissed him so publically. AGAIN.
Libertarian drops out of IC race – Mobley just picked up another three votes
David Eisenhour, the Libertarian Party candidate for Delaware insurance commissioner is suspending his campaign and endorsing the Republican challenger, Ben Mobley, in his campaign to defeat incumbent Karen Weldin Stewart.
BREAKING: Paul Clark Gone in Less Than 3 Weeks
This was news to me. Apparently it was a surprise to Paul Clark as well. He just found out. But here’s the applicable section from the Delaware Code (Title 9, § 1114):
§ 1114. Vacancy in office.
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of County Executive by reason of death, resignation, removal from office or other cause, the President of the County Council shall serve as County Executive until the latter office is filled as a result of an election. If a vacancy in the office of County Executive occurs more than 30 days prior to the date of a primary election in which county officers are nominated, the vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term in the next succeeding general election and the County Executive elected in this manner shall take office on the first Tuesday following such election. If a vacancy in the office of County Executive occurs less than 30 days prior to the date of a primary election in which county officers are nominated, the vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term by the President of the County Council. If the President of the County Council becomes County Executive, the President’s office as an elected official of the county governing body shall become vacant.
Guess we’d better keep a close eye on Clark to make sure that his limited window runs out with a minimum of chicanery.
“Sparks Fly at Debate”
That’s the Delaware state News Headline. The News Journal saw fur flying. Anyway, something was flying. (Sparkly fur?!?!) Here is the News Journal’s Jonathan Starkey (mostly paraphrased by yous truly):
DOVER — Sen. Tom Carper was double teamed by wack-jobs.
Kevin Wade, a teabag, accused Carper of not reading the Affordable Care Act, and basically being a lazy douche.
Carper conceded the point on a technicality. “On the [Senate] Finance committee, (a place you will never see) we work off of plain English language,”
Open Thread – Delaware “Survivor” contestant didn’t survive long enough to annoy the sh*t out of me with her vocal fry
After a few weeks of zero face time, Delaware’s “Katie” washed out of survivor, not with a bang – but a whimper.
After enduring a little smack talk from Jeff Probst during the elimination challenge, “Katie, completely ineffective in this challenge.” she was bounced at the tribal council.
If you substitute the word “show” for challenge in Probst’ statement you get a little closer to the truth.
The Polling Report [10.25.12]
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Mark Halperin: “Chicago remains sufficiently funded and emboldened by its own polling to compete for the final two weeks in all nine of the battlegrounds: Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia in the South; New Hampshire in the North; Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the Midwest; and Nevada and Colorado in the West. As they have in the past, Obama campaign officials say they expect to win a high percentage of those states and conceivably could sweep all nine.”
“When pressed, the Obama officials with whom I met said that five of the nine stand out: Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, and New Hampshire. In that quintet, Democrats believe the combination of their current leads in polling, early voting (where applicable), and ground game makes their chances of winning even greater there than in the other four. And given the Electoral College math, unless Romney picks off one or more of those five states, Obama would win a minimum of 281 electoral votes and re-election.”
As Greg Sargent notes, the polling averages show Obama leading in each of those states as well.
The polls today also show Obama leading where it counts:
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Superblogger: Clark Kent leaving the Daily Planet for online journalism
In the latest issue of Superman, Clark Kent quits. And delivers a stinging rebuke of the modern media that nails it as well as anyone could:
Wednesday Open Thread [10.24.12]
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“The truth is both sides are worried — Team Obama is nowhere near as confident about its map as public statements suggest, and the Romney surge isn’t as real (or relevant, given battleground-state polling) as Republicans are spinning. Yet it’s that map that governs still — national polls aside, the Romney surge hasn’t spilled into the battlegrounds (particularly Ohio) enough to upend the race in Romney’s favor, at least not yet.”
Christine O’Donnell Defends Eric Bodenweiser, calls Indictment “Tacky.”
WGMD has the audio of Christine O’Donnell’s reaction to the Eric Bodenweiser indictmenet. Christine O’Donnell, mind you, is the presumptive GOP nominee to run against Sen. Chris Coons in 2014. Here is the transcript:
CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: That’s why these sort of, charges are so, are so, potent as political weapons because they put a seed of doubt in someone’s mind. If you do it as an October surprise there’s not enough time between when they throw the bomb on election day for the truth to really emerge and, um, it’s just, it’s tacky and it’s what happened to our political system.
This is the same woman whose campaign spread rumors about Mike Castle being gay. Seriously, Christine, shut the fuck up. You are the ultimate practitioner of what you call “tacky” politics. You and your tea party has been using lies, rumors, racism and innuedo since your arrival on the political scene.
Further, this is not tacky. It is tragic. A Horror. And if these charges are true, Eric Bodenweiser is a monster that needs to be put away forever. Yes, forever. Until he dies in prison. Seriously, it is that freaking serious.
Lest There Be Any Doubt…
I am not going back to Dover or anywhere else to work for the General Assembly or, for that matter, state government.
In the past day, we at DL have had to moderate allegations from one poster that I’ve cut some sort of secret deal with candidates for me to get a job back in Dover. Not because of the allegations, which are false, but b/c this serial outer once again outs where I work.
This person is not affiliated with the Cloutier campaign, the moribund DeLuca campaign, or any other campaign. He simply blames me, along with numerous other people in my community, for his own situation. Which is not true, but that’s neither here nor there. He’s done this many times before, and he’s been moderated for it.
My statement should be obvious to anyone who has read my work for the last four years or so. I’ve held nothing back as far as my opinions regarding what I believe is good and bad in state government. I am neither delusional enough to believe that what I’ve written would be forgiven/forgotten, nor masochistic enough to want to work in that environment.
Twice Divorced Trump to make a big deal about an almost divorce?
So weird-hair cut Birther King and small businessman Donald Trump, who has had numerous adulterous affairs throughout his life and has been thrice married and twice divorced, has a big announcement scheduled for this afternoon, and in his typical lampoonish style, Trump has described what he will announce as “bordering on gigantic,” a story so big that it would “possibly” change the state of the election.
And what is this annoucement? Well, according to the British tabloid, the Daily Mail, the announcement will concern the discovery by Trump of long lost divorce papers that Michelle Obama had drawn up back in 2000 after Barack lost a U.S. House race to Bobby Rush in 2000.
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