Year: 2015

It's starting to get nasty! Trump also went after Carson yesterday for being a pathological liar, which is correct. Fiorina, also a pathological liar, defending her fellow pathological liar by saying on Facebook:

“Donald, sorry, I’ve got to interrupt again. You would know something about pathological. How was that meeting with Putin? Or Wharton? Or your self funded campaign? Anyone can turn a multi-million dollar inheritance into more money, but all the money in the world won’t make you as smart as Ben Carson.”

And she is also right. Donald does lie as well, creating meetings with world leaders out of whole cloth, lying about self funding his campaign. He was born with a silver spoon. The only thing Carly gets wrong is this: Ben Carson is not smart.

Here at Delaware Liberal, we will always have a soft spot in our hearts for Christine O'Donnell. Her primary victory over Mike Castle not only delivered a Senate seat to the blue team when it was going to go red, but it also gave DL our highest traffic numbers ever for a few months. So we continue to keep tabs on Ms. O'Donnell. And as you know, she is currently being sued by the FEC for using her campaign donations to pay her personal rent at her Greenville townhouse during the campaign. She hired a lawyer to defend her, but then stop paying that lawyer. Lawyers like to get paid for the work they do, and when they don't get paid, we stop doing work. Of course, as a Republican, Christine looked upon her lawyer as a servant/employee that was indentured to her, no matter if she paid him or not. So she was surprised when said lawyer moved to withdraw from representing her, and further surprised when the motion was granted. But somehow, she received an email between her former counsel and opposing counsel for the FEC, and now she thinks there is some huge conspiracy against her.

I don't know what a Chief of Staff does. (Gives out raises to insiders?) I know Dave from the early days of blogging, and I will say this much - I like him. He is a nice guy. Good family man, upright citizen who wants the best for his community. A throw back. Of course he has a head full of nonsense regarding "right to work" and eliminating the estate tax being beneficial for society - but I could chalk that up to his being raised by people with heads full of nonsense. My point is that this feels like a step in the right direction for the DE GOP. Burris doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would put defunding Planned Parenthood on a list of priorities.

The University of Delaware is going to select their new President next week, which I suppose means that the next President of the University will not be Vice President Joe Biden.

Get a load of Copeland's response to the recent NJ editorial in the city of Wilmington. It would be funny if the stakes were not so high.

GOP Reaction to News Journal Editorial

Newark, DE -- The Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party, Charlie Copeland, released the following statement this afternoon after reading today's News Journal editorial "Wilmington, our broken city, must be saved": "The News Journal has hit the nail on the head, and I commend them for their editorial this morning. I was particularly struck by the line, 'We must work to improve access to high-quality education in the city. We must work to ensure our young people have employment opportunities and the resources to succeed. We must stem the tide of guns flowing onto our streets'. "Republicans have not held a significant seat at the table in the City of Wilmington in over 40 years, and we have not controlled the Governor's Office in 24 years. This has left the City in the hands of one party control, and the results of that have been devastating. Our Party is well aware of this fact, and we have begun to reengage in the City to offer residents a real choice when they go to the ballot box. "Republicans feel strongly that our party has real solutions to the very real problems that face the City of Wilmington. We are prepared to meet with the Mayor, and others who have an interest in saving Wilmington, to work in a bi-partisan way to make things better.

So...What are they, these solutions? Why the secrecy? Can it be because the GOP's "solutions" amount to a handful of tax cuts for the businesses and individuals that are already getting a pretty good deal? Maybe we've taken tax cuts as far as they can go, and now Charlie is going to propose direct subsidies to our wealthiest businesses and individuals. I wouldn't put it past him.

I've been stewing about what is wrong with Democrats and the Democratic Party for a long time. What's I've arrived as is a pretty simple realization. The American left, and…

Brian Beutler says the Republicans have no answer to a key 2016 question:

[T]he most revealing question of the first half of the debate, addressed to Carly Fiorina, posited that Democrats will point out, accurately, that the labor market has performed better in modern times under Democratic presidents than under Republican ones, and that it performed particularly poorly under the previous Republican president. "The Democrats will inevitably ask you and voters to compare the recent presidents' jobs performance," said moderator Gerard Baker. "In seven years under President Obama, the U.S. has added an average of 107,000 jobs per month. Under Clinton, the economy added about 240,000 per month, under George W. Bush, it was only 13,000 a month. If you win the nomination, you will probably be facing a Democrat named Clinton. How are you going to respond to the claim that Democratic presidents are better at creating jobs than Republicans?" Fiorina, quite tellingly, had no answer. [...] “When Hillary Clinton runs, she’s going to say, ‘The Republicans gave us a crappy economy twice, and we fixed it twice. Why would you ever trust them again?’” Kevin Hassett, a Republican economist at the American Enterprise Institute, said earlier this year. “The objective for the people in the Republican Party who want to defeat her is to come up with a story about what’s not great.”

What's not great is income inequality, but Republican policies of tax cuts, union busting and deregulation have created income inequality, not lessened it. So the GOP cannot campaign on that either.