March 5, 2014 – Delaware Liberal

Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” only works for whites

By jason330 March 5, 20145 Comments

This is total BS, and unfortunately, totally not surprising.

Florida’s State Attorney is pursuing 60 years behind bars for Marissa Alexander, a Black woman who fired a “warning shot” in the direction of her estranged husband and his two kids.

Wednesday Open Thread [3.5.14]

By Delaware Dem March 5, 201415 Comments

First Read reports on the Texas party primaries last night (which are as ridiculously early as Delaware's are ridiculously late):

"Yet if the GOP establishment largely won the battle last night, the Tea Party has already won the war. Every Republican running for office -- up and down the ballot -- did so by running hard to the right and hard against President Obama (even in races that have nothing to do with the president)... And in another example of how the Tea Party has already won the war, just check out the tweet that Sen. Lindsey Graham -- another establishment Republican facing a Tea Party primary field this year -- fired off yesterday regarding the situation in Ukraine: 'It started with Benghazi. When you kill Americans and nobody pays a price, you invite this type of aggression.'" "Bottom line: Establishment Republicans have figured out how to survive (for the most part) in these primaries, but the question is whether this has been good for the party in the long run."

Let me give you a hint: it will doom them in national elections, it will guarantee a Ted Cruz or Rand Paul nomination, and will result in a 400 electoral vote landslide by President Hillary Clinton. Now, some would say that is bad for the party. I disagree. I think Republicans love their base to be outraged so that they can be bilked. Nothing better for that than 16 years of Democratic control of the White House.

Code Pink Co-Founder Brutalized in Egypt

By admin March 5, 20142 Comments

Medea Benjamin, the indomitable co-founder of the women's activist group Code Pink has reported that en-route to a women's conference in Gaza, she was physically attacked at an airport in Egypt.

UPDATED: Good Morning Suckers – You are paying Mike Castle’s flood insurance premiums, and you are going to keep paying them

By jason330 March 5, 201420 Comments

Mike Castle can sleep in his beach house soundly knowing that you are on the job heavily subsidizing his choice to live next to the unpredictable Atlantic Ocean totally risk free. You feel good about yourself, right? Castle deserves his sound sleep. Actually, I'm not crazy about the set up. I happen to think that people who decide to live in flood plains should shoulder the risk of that reckless behavior. It is the one area of common ground I had with teabags, and it was the one positive outcome from the Democratic Party's adoption of austerity mania. We can't afford to cover Mike Castles flood risk, nor should we have to. For a while it looked like we were going to get out from under having to pay Mike Castle's beach house flood insurance premiums, but now it looks like that ain't happening

Daily Approval Rating — Results for Auditor Tom Wagner and Poll for Senator Tom Carper

By Delaware Dem March 5, 20145 Comments

Here are the results for Auditor Wagner: Approve - 59% Disapprove - 26% Meh - 16% Looks like another freep poll, but that's ok. The Republicans have so little to be happy about in Delaware that it is good to throw them a bone once and a while. I am not sure what there is to approve of regarding the job performance of the Auditor. But doing nothing is what Republicans really like and do best. Alright. Now have at Senator Carper.

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [3.5.14]

By Delaware Dem March 5, 20141 Comment