Joe “No Bullsh*t” Biden All But Declares Bush An Illegitimate President

Joe “No Bullsh*t” Biden All But Declares Bush An Illegitimate President

It is all true, so I'm just going to post this whole Dartagnan diary.
The Biden, unleashed:
In remarks made on Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Massachusetts Senate candidate Ed Markey in front of an audience of donating (doting?) Democrats, Biden went for the jugular.In a reference to Al Gore, who introduced Biden at the Washington, D.C., event, Biden said, "This man was elected president of the United States of America,"according to the pool report. "But for the good of the nation, when the bad decision, in my view, was made, he did the right thing for the nation," Biden continued.
Biden was just getting warmed up....
As the Sussex GOP Turns… or These are the Days of our Tin Foil…

As the Sussex GOP Turns… or These are the Days of our Tin Foil…

So Delaware Politics has a story up by the very wonderful Don Ayotte, currently a member of the Independent Party of Delaware (iPod), formerly a Republican candidate for Sussex County Council, about the current Sussex County GOP Spokesman, Duke Brooks. I am preserving the story in its entirety as it appears Delaware Politics is suffering some site outages at the moment, most likely due to David Anderson or some other admin over there trying to delete the story. Here it is...

Wednesday Open Thread [6.12.13]

Here is some schadenfreude:
“Ignore the fucking scandals for a few days and save the country from Chuck Schumer.”
That is Mickey Kaus, alarmed about immigration reform sailing through the first hurdle in the Senate with over 80 votes. Some other witless conservative dubbed immigration reform the "Schumercare Democrat Voting Fraud Act of 2013." LOL. First, these conservatives always personalize their opposition to a bill by attacking the person or persons behind it. Nancy Pelosi. Barack Obama. Ted Kennedy. Chris Dodd. Barney Frank. Harry Reid. And now Chuck Schumer. And hence "Schumercare," which is supposed to allude to Obamacare for some reason, I suppose to awaken fear and loathing in the conservative lizard brain, as if enough did not exist there already. Second, "Democrat voting fraud?" Let's ignore for the moment the fact that every single documented instance of "voting fraud" over the past several years has had a Republican as the culprit, and instead let's focus on the fact that conservatives view minorities voting as a fraud. That cannot be denied given all the Jim Crow laws Republicans are passing or have passed in the South. Further, the earliest that an undocumented immigrant can be become a citizen under this reform bill and vote would be 2028. 15 years from now. They will be voting on whether to keep President Julian Castro on for a second term. And if the GOP decides to go all racist in opposition to this immigration reform bill, then yes, those new citizens will all be voting Democratic. But their votes will be as legal as the conservative's vote. And that is because they would have paid their fines and their dues and fulfilled their other onerous requirements in this reform to bill to become citizens.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds. June 12, 2013

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds. June 12, 2013

Let us circle June 11, 2013 on the calendar. It will go down as a day when public schools were dealt yet another blow at the hands of greed and silence. The Governor's greedy desire to rise above his station, D's and R's alike greedy desire to get their hands on funds they shouldn't have, the press' unwillingness to function as journalists instead of lapdogs; a conspiracy of silence that rippled through the Delaware Way, leaving only the have-nots behind (admittedly, that's a dog-bites-man story in Jack Markell's Delaware). Here's the roll call on the charter schools money grab, if you have the heart. Oh, and if anyone thinks that $5 mill is the end instead of the beginning, well, you're not thinking. So, Markell will get his Race to the Top filthy lucre and his imaginary presidential street cred, Charlie Copeland (!) will parlay his family's expertise in bankruptcies into running a hy-ooge city charter. A Tower Hill grad who inherited his fortune will be one of the largest players in Delaware education. In the inner city. I mean, has anybody with any say-so over who gets to run a charter ever read Dissolute Recrimination? The politicians who supported this railroad job (deliberations in private, rushed through in a week and a half) opted to serve themselves instead of the majority of their constituents. The least they could do is let everyone in on the details of the deals. A very dark day for public education in Delaware.  And a black mark on the Delaware General Assembly that won't be easily removed. Jack Markell is now officially dead to me.