Day: October 8, 2013

The recent PPP polling has been getting a lot of attention. In addition to basic "approve/disapprove" they asked about Tea Party sentiment in the district. The high levels of disgust with the tea party provides Democrats with real openings in these districts.

According to Politico, it's because Harry Reid wants him there. Doesn't want him giving any more stuff away to the Rethugs:

“None of the deals Biden has struck have aged well from the perspective of the Democratic Caucus,” said one Senate Democratic official aware of Reid’s face-to-face insistence that Biden be excluded. "In December, McConnell went around Reid — and straight to Biden — to get a better arrangement for Republicans.

A Republican congressman gives his a history lesson:

The congressman began with an anecdote from the Civil War. "I would liken this a little bit to Gettysburg, where a Confederate unit went looking for shoes and stumbled into Union cavalry, and all of a sudden found itself embroiled in battle on a battlefield it didn't intend to be on, and everybody just kept feeding troops into it," the congressman said. "That's basically what's happening now in a political sense. This isn't exactly the fight I think Republicans wanted to have, certainly that the leadership wanted to have, but it's the fight that's here."

So the GOP is the Confederacy, about to be slaughtered in battle.

Where are Delaware's Republican grownups? Doesn't Delaware even have a functioning GOP anymore? Take a look at Charlie Copeland's official DEGOP Chair blog page. Ridiculous. Copeland is particularly craven given the politics of his father, a Republican who was instrumental in bringing Planned Parenthood to Delaware. What ever happened to the sane/insane divide in the party. I haven't heard a peep about the GOP's outrageous and unpatriotic brinksmanship from ANY Delaware Republican. Kovach? Lopez? Are you guys the future leaders of a political party or what? Man up for God's sake. While the "moderates" cower in silence, many Delaware Republicans live in the same self-imposed intellectual isolation that Ted Cruz inhabits. It is an intellectual ghetto in which the only voices are extremist charlatans who say there’s no risk associated with default. Because they never hear the thoughts of alleged Republican moderates like Copeland or Kovach, they honestly think that the government can structure payments so that the country’s creditors are held harmless. An alarming number of Republicans think this way, and that is to the DEGOP's eternal shame. The Delaware Republican Party "moderates" no doubt strut their level-headed reasonableness behind closed doors, but there are publicly complicit in allowing the GOP's dangerous fantasies to flourish. < / rant >