Thursday Open Thread [6.13.13]

Thursday Open Thread [6.13.13]

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Joan Walsh posts that Hillary must be active in 2014:
"...She needs to be part of a Democratic team making the 2014 midterms a referendum on the uncompleted business of the Obama presidency - and on the GOP's outrageous abuse of its minority status to block everything from popular legislation to agency nominations...Clinton has enormous political capital with the Democratic base, and beyond it. She needs to spend some of it turning out voters in 2014, or the presidency might not be a prize worth winning, except as another title in your Twitter bio."
Joe Biden has already started, and I am sure O'Malley and Cuomo are sure to be traveling the country.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 13, 2013

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 13, 2013

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Let me get this straight. Jack Markell cuts taxes for his wealthy friends early this session. The only tax among the so-called temporary emergency taxes enacted in 2009 that he cut. Now he says he needs $80 million in new taxes and fees, or bridges will fall down, highways will crumble. Oh, and if they do, it will be somebody else's fault because Markell gave the legislators a full 2 1/2 week's warning before the end of session. Maybe, just maybe, if he stopped appearing on TV, writing half-baked op-eds, or accepting ginned-up awards created solely to increase his national stature (I recommend lifts as an alternative), he might find time to, you know, actually govern. I mean in public, not in secret.