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On this day the Tea Party stopped being an actual thing

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The item below is a good news/bad news type deal for Democrats. The good news is that the Tea Party is completely defunct as a movement with the ability to wield any power. Except for some reality impaired dead-enders and their wealthy enablers, nobody is going to utter the words "Tea Party" as anything other than a punchline from now on. The bad news for Democrats is that the Tea Party is defunct. The "grassroots" movement that allowed Christine O'Donnell to challenge Michael Castle will not be around to run its reign of terror party purges in future elections.
Blizzard of ’14 Open Thread [2.13.14]

Blizzard of ’14 Open Thread [2.13.14]

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15 inches as of this moment in North Wilmington. How about where you live? One of our conservative commenters warned us that the GOP would win heavily this fall because they were going to focus on Obamacare. And our liberal commenters welcomed the challenge. Why? Because if the election is about Obamacare, like it was in 2012, we win. Evidence? Polling in the upcoming special election in the Florida 13: FLORDIA--13 CD--SPECIAL ELECTION--Tampa Bay Times: Alex Sink (D) 42, David Jolly (R) 35.
Interesting: "The poll also reveals how the Affordable Care Act has become a virtual litmus test for voters. Of those who support Sink, 81 percent also support Obamacare. Of those who support Jolly, 84 percent also oppose Obamacare."
Beau Biden is planning something, but he is skipping over a step…..

Beau Biden is planning something, but he is skipping over a step…..

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It is time to come clean with your fellow Delawareans. We are adults. We can accept and understand any kind of news, good, bad or even horrible, every day. But first, Celia Cohen:
Beau Biden collected more than $1 million in political contributions in 2013. This does not look like the conduct of a sick man. This looks like the conduct of a man who wants to be regarded as a future candidate for governor. Not that anybody is saying. Not that anybody ever does. It is all still supposed to be about Biden running for a third term as attorney general in 2014. "He has not made any bones about his love of public service. At this point he has not made any decisions. He's always taken it one year at a time," said Molly Magarik, who manages Biden's political operation. Money talks, and maybe this money is as close as Delaware is going to get to a statement about Biden's wellbeing.
Well, Biden will need more than fundraising as proof of his wellbeing before he proceeds with whatever plans he has, especially if he intends to run against Matt Denn for Governor.

If Progressives Show Up to Protest, Will Anyone Hear About It?

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This past Sunday, 80K - 100K people from all over the US took to the streets in Raleigh, NC to protest the draconian policies that the GOP are implementing there. The protest, called the Moral March on Raleigh, was kick off of this year's long Moral Mondays marches in Raleigh -- marches that resulted in arrests of non-violent protesters last year.
The “Moral March on Raleigh,” organized by Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) and the North Carolina NAACP, marched from Shaw University to the state capitol to push back against the “immoral and unconstitutional policies” of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory during the 2013 NC General Assembly session. Since North Carolina Republicans took over both legislative chambers in 2010, legislators have eliminated a host of programs and raised taxes on the bottom 80 percent, repealed a tax credit for 900,000 working families, enforced voter suppression efforts, blocked Medicaid coverage, cut pre-Kindergarten funding, cut federal unemployment benefits, and gave itself the authority to intervene in abortion lawsuits.