Democrats: Look What Two Parties By And For The Rich Got Us.

Democrats: Look What Two Parties By And For The Rich Got Us.

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Hey DNC and State Party Chairs: Look at our reality. We've got the Presidency for two more years; the Repugnant party has both houses and the Supreme Court. What's more, they've got 68 out of 98 partisan state legislatures and 31 governorships. We, the party "of the people" came up just a bit short but your reaction seems just a bit muted given these dire circumstances.
Jobs For Delaware Graduates = Jobs For Political Hacks

Jobs For Delaware Graduates = Jobs For Political Hacks

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Does anybody here remember the inception of Jobs For Delaware Graduates? I do. Pete duPont created this repository for some of his less-qualified lackeys back in 1978. It was basically modeled after other Federal jobs programs, but with the bar set so low that it could claim success even when said success was dubious at best, and would never have been accepted under federal requirements:
It was designed in 1978 by five working groups in Delaware, drawn from business, educational, workforce, labor union, and community leadership. The purpose of the organization was to address simultaneously with Delaware’s unemployment rate and the dropout rate (?).
So, you're saying to yourself, well, Steve, this is all well and good, but, so far your headline is false advertising. Ladeez & Gentlemen, meet the new President of Jobs For Delaware Graduates...STATE SENATOR NICOLE POORE. major conflict: Didja know that this ostensibly 'private non-profit' gets about $1.4 million annually from the Grant-In-Aid bill? Taxpayer money appropriated by the same General Assembly to which Sen. Poore belongs? And now she's drawing a salary from them. From the same $1.4 million?
“Carper, meanwhile, is a fake.”

“Carper, meanwhile, is a fake.”

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Carper's perplexing support for the Keystone Pipeline (because it will "clear the decks" and usher in an era of bipartisan peace and prosperity) is helping people understand what a D-bag Tom Carper is. Bill McKibben writing for Salon is the latest to call our Carper for his self-satisfied and vacuous praise of the climate agreement with China, and his outright assholery for saying that the climate deal with China is so awesome that it will "outweigh" the ecological catastrophe that is the Keystone pipeline. I don't have any great hope that the Democrats will be able to replace Carper, but his astonishingly tone-deaf and horrible representation of Delaware in the Senate is leading me to the belief that a non-Teabag Republican would be an upgrade. A non-Teabag Republican siding with the GOP on this would only be hurting the country. Tom Carper hurts the country by supporting the equivalent of 400 new coal burning power stations. But he is also doing long term and permanent damage to the Democratic Party.