September 5, 2013 – Delaware Liberal

Thursday Open Thread 9.5.13

By Delaware Dem September 5, 20133 Comments

"In a world in which threats are more diffuse and missions more complex, America cannot act alone. America alone cannot secure the peace." -- President Obama, in his Nobel Peace Prize speech in 2009. In all this Syria discussion, we kinda forgot that the end of the world is imminent in mid-October. Yeah, remember about the budget deadline (October 1) and debt ceiling deadline (October 15). Republicans all summer were saying that they would shut down the government and default on the debt if President Obama did not repeal Obamacare. For the last two weeks, they have kinda shut up about that, maybe because of a point First Read makes:

"Would a Congress that authorizes military action in Syria shut down the U.S. government and default just a few weeks later?"

The Progressive Divide on Syria

By Delaware Dem September 5, 201320 Comments

Last night at the PDD meeting in New Castle, there was a lively discussion about a proposed resolution opposing the military authorization before Congress. The resolution is inside. The vote at the meeting was nearly evenly split, with one more vote approving the resolution than not. The vote continues today online at the PDD Facebook page and through email (pddemail@gmail.com). This progressive divide should not have been surprising but it was. For it was already playing out in the editorial pages of the News Journal.

Comment Rescue – Flying Frontier out of ILG (New Castle)

By jason330 September 5, 20135 Comments

While they made news for cancelling the Houston route, Frontier's commercial service out of New Castle is (appearently) a real thing. Friend of DL, and someone who knows a thing or two about moving a large group through an airport, JC gives us the 411.

Coons votes for unwinable “humanitarian” war for dubious reasons

By jason330 September 5, 201311 Comments

As a menber of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons voted with a narrow majority to give President Barack Obama the authority to strike Syria. While the vote speaks for itself, the questions Coons posed to John Kerry and to General Dempsey reveal that fact that Coons believes that America is the world's police force. Coons believes that the question facing Congress is not, should we police the world? But, since we are the world's police, can we do that job well? This comes through very clearly in his first question to General Dempsey.

Daily Delawhere 9.5.13

By Delaware Dem September 5, 2013

From Mike Mahaffie on Flickr.