Archive for March, 2016
Wilmington FD Votes No Confidence in Chief Goode
Amazing, but once you think about it, not surprising. According the the NJ: The union that represents Wilmington’s firefighters on Thursday submitted a letter to the city’s elected officials notifying them they had “no confidence” in its leader, Fire Chief Anthony S. Goode. “It is with great regret that we report to you that the […]
DE GOP Poverty (?) Plan [Updated w/ link]
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When I first heard about the DEGOP Senate’s poverty plan, I had to let it sink in a bit. I figured it was a plan for further increasing poverty, like all of their plans – only just a little more honest this time. Turns out….I was right. More of the same, tax cuts, private school […]
I love this legal strategy
The President appoints and the Senate confirms. If the Senate abstains, the appointment stands.
There is a fun legal theory floating around advocating one way the Obama administration could resolve the mess over Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court. In brief, the theory says this: A few months from now, Garland could just show up at the Supreme Court building and start working.
Okay, it’s a legal theory, so it is much more complicated than that. But Garland pulling on his judicial robe and plunking himself down in Antonin Scalia’s seat without so much as a fare-thee-well from Mitch McConnell….
What we think of as the “advise and consent” process is nothing but the accretion of tradition. The GOP Senate has overturned tradition, so what is the new process? President Obama has a hand in forming that new tradition and seating a new Supreme Court Justice while the Senate abstains should be the next step.
New Castle County Government: A Police Family Business
This is a creation from our friends at NCCo. Politics on Twitter. This chart is brilliant.
Whomever is responsible for that twitter feed has also created some other clever graphics. Come inside and see…
‘Better Call Saul’ Catch up Thread
If you are living under a rock, ‘Better Call Saul’ (BCS) is a series on AMC created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Set in 2002, it is a spin-off prequel of Breaking Bad. Critics, namely me, consider it the best writing and directing on TV right now – or ever.
BCS follows the story of small-time lawyer James Morgan “Jimmy” McGill played brilliantly by Bob Odenkirk, six years before his appearance on Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman.
During the season one cold opening of BCS we find Jimmy playing the part of a sad sack manger of a Midwestern Cinnabon Franchise as he predicted in one of the closing episodes of Breaking Bad. (Wait a sec…is Jimmy “playing the part” of a sad sack manager, or is he a sad sack manager?) How does he get from “jimmy McGill” to “Saul Goodman” to this sad sack? I guess we’ll see. But for catch up purposes, I will not go into the plot, but look at the characters and chat about plot from now on.
Thursday Open Thread [3.31.16]
Gallup finds an enthusiasm gap in the Democratic Party. One candidate does 10 points worse than the other when their supporters are asked if they are enthusiastic to vote for him or her. But it is not who you think.
One of the things Bernie Sanders supporters say to boost their candidate’s chances is that Bernie has more enthusiasm and momentum on his side, while voters are just “meh” about Hillary. That talking point just died.
Hats cost money
COOPER: You always say you’re self-funding. How much do you think your campaign has cost – in the past you said $25 million. TRUMP: I can tell you, I’d say I’m in right now for – now, I’m in for about $35 million right now. COOPER: Okay. TRUMP: We take the small loans, the people […]
Donald Trump Speaks On Abortion – And It’s Just As Bad As You Imagine
Via The Daily Beast: There must be “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, Donald Trump said Wednesday afternoon Adding… “you go back to a position like they had where they would perhaps go to illegal places, but we have to ban it.” and the exact punishment would “have to be determined.” And […]
Wednesday Open Thread [3.30.16]
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Jonah Goldberg: “If Trump misses the mark by, say, 150 delegates, that would be significantly more than the delegate totals of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina combined. It’s one thing to deny the trophy to the guy who finished a few yards shy of the finish line. It’s another if he misses it by a mile. The bigger the shortfall, the easier it is to persuade delegates that they are not defying the popular will by denying Trump, particularly given the widespread conviction that Trump would be crushed in a general election (with the GOP being torn apart in the process).”
“Cruz would be the most likely victor in a floor fight, but that isn’t assured. The longer the balloting goes, the more likely it is that the bitter and bleary-eyed delegates will opt to order off-menu. That’s what Kasich is allegedly counting on. But Kasich is widely disliked, and it might be a good deal easier to find a unifying candidacy in, say, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Nikki Haley, or Mike Pence.”
Lawlessness in the City of Wilmington Starts at the Top
The News Journal published a remarkable story yesterday, detailing the escapades of a Wilmington Fire Marshal who was supposedly performing a residency investigation. Some quick background, new hires with the City of Wilmington are expected to establish residency in the city within six months of hire and then are expected to live in the city for 5 years. There’s a Residency Review Board that is supposed to review challenges of non-compliance. But here we find that somehow a WFD Fire Marshal is clumsily investigating WFD employees:
Which candidate was a client of the DC Madam?
A lawyer who represented the so-called “D.C. madam” says he has phone records that could influence the outcome of the presidential election, and he’s threatening to release one or more names on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court if he’s denied a hearing on his right to distribute them.
So let’s assume Montgomery Blair Sibley, the late “DC Madam” Deborah Palfrey’s attorney, does have information that ties one of the current candidates to some of the same prostitutes famously frequented by former Senator and presently disgraced pious blow-hard, David Vitter… which one is it? I have listed the candidates from LEAST likely to MOST likely:
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