Archive for January, 2014
On this day in blogging history
Six years ago today, We got our first (and probably still best) guest post from Senator Tom Carper. Five years ago tonight We had a victory party at Deerfield Wines. Four years ago today, Beau Biden said that he wasn’t going to run for the US Senate. Three years ago today My three part plan for creating jobs in Delaware by raising taxes on Charlie Copeland (part 3) was one day old. Two years ago today GOP Clown, John Sigler gave a whack-ass response to Markell’s state of the state address. Last year on this date SB 3 was on its way to putting the kibosh on the Markell plan to privatize the port of Wilmington – therby proving that “elections matter.”
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Another GOP business that relies entirely on suckers and fools
There was a time when John McCain was battling George W. Bush for the GOP nomination when I thought he would make a decent President of the United States. I may have given him my email address back then because prior to Bush I thought it was possible for a Republican to have the best interest of the country at heart. What was what, thirteen years ago? Anyway I’m still on John McCain’s mailing list. I don’t get why I am on that list, and I don’t get why he still has an organization called “Friends of John McCain” sending me fundraising appeals. What I really don’t get is why anybody would read this and think, “Where is my credit card? John McCain needs money.”
Delaware’s top three counties
3. Kent Marshy to the east, farmy to the west with a strip of fast food places and check cashing shops running down the middle. Sure it has the Firefly festival now, but that’s just NASCAR for hipsters. Swap the Bud Light for Dog Fish head and there you are.
2. Sussex Since none of Delaware’s counties contain a mountain rage, you simple can’t beat the Atlantic Ocean as a marquee feature. The backwards losers are losing the race against modernity in this county. The problem, of course, is what modernity will reign? The crappy Green Turtles of the world or the scrappy El Dorados?
1. New Castle Delaware’s best county by far (not that they had much competition). Great public schools, access to transportation, decent parks and amenities. Look at our streams creeks and bays, just don’t touch them, or eat more than 2 oz. of fish a year, and Bob’s your uncle.
Rubio gains on Christie’s tumble
The media needs a mainstream Republican to talk about. They need to pretend that the two parties are roughly equivalent in common sense and rationality. Therefor it is a fairly safe bet that a lunatic like Rand Paul or Scot Walker isn’t going to get the dubious award of “front runner by media acclimation.” Who will it be then?
Thursday Open Thread [1.23.14]
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I always hate it when the self righteous beltway pundit and the uninformed morally superior Independent voter lament how horrible partisan politics and why can’t both parties forget about their legion of irreconcilable policy differences and govern nicely. As if partisan politics and polarization and political nastiness was a new invention. Partisan politics and political fights are as old, if not older, than the Republic….
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 23, 2014
Today’s highlight, of course, will be Governor Jack Markell’s State of the State Address. I, for one, want to hear whether the Governor has developed even the slightest empathy for those Delawareans who have been hurt by the increasing concentration of wealth that the Governor has helped to enable. Something, anything, to provide hope to those who don’t live in Greenville, and don’t attend the same cocktail parties the Governor attends, and can’t afford to. My prediction? Whether this week, or next week, when he introduces his proposed budget, those who have been screwed will be asked to make even more sacrifices. The wealthy will not. Maybe he’ll prove me wrong. For once.
All Senate and House committee meetings were canceled yesterday, and none were rescheduled for today. Many thanks to House and Senate staff who provided the public with today’s agendas yesterday.
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Wednesday Open Thread [1.22.14]
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Sorry that there was no Open Thread yesterday. I was busy contending with the Blizzard of 14. I hope you are all dug out where you are.
Meanwhile, amid building scandal, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was sworn in yesterday. One way or the other, he will not be completing it. Either he will be forced from office by scandal, or he will resign to run for President (and he will have to resign given New Jersey’s laws about raising money for federal office while serving in a state one).
Michael Tomasky says Republicans have reached the panic mode now over the damage the Christie scandals have done to their chances in 2016.
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New Analysis Of U.S. Misjudgement on Sarin Gas Source
Robert Parry, of ConsotiumNews and noted investigative reporter has just published an investigative report on the August 21 Sarin Gas attack in Syria. The report is entitled “The Mistaken Guns of Last August” and can be seen at ConsortiumNews.com. He cites the work of Richard Lloyd of Tesla Labs and Theodore A. Postol, science professor at MIT. Parry says:
“A new report by two American weapons specialists, entitled “Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack,” makes clear that the case presented by Kerry and the Obama administration was scientifically impossible because the range of the key rocket carrying Sarin was less than a third of what the U.S. government was claiming.
Carper, Coons & Carney can’t grasp this because they are millionaires who hang around with other millionaires
This was reported yesterday but not widely recognized as an actual fact within the beltway:
Two out of three Americans are dissatisfied with the way income and wealth are currently distributed in the U.S. This includes three-fourths of Democrats and 54% of Republicans.
Where do non-congressional members of the American family get these crazy ideas?
The combined wealth of the world’s richest 85 people is now equivalent to that owned by half of the world’s population – or 3.5 billion of the poorest people – according to a new report from Oxfam.
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