Is Senator Chris Coons Completely Useless?

Is Senator Chris Coons Completely Useless?

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When it comes to standing up to Trump, Coons really is winning the "most spineless" derby. In a recent Slate Podcast Coons spends 15 minutes rephrasing all of Dahlia Lithwick's questions about the beating that the Constitution is already taking, without ever answering any questions. The closest he comes it an answer is to opine, from on high, about that fact that the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution sets up a "fascinating conflict" between originalists and people who think that the Constitution is a living document. Could there be a more entitled approach to Trump's multiple and egregious conflicts of interest? "fascinating conflict" JESUS!

How Tom Carper’s Positions and Votes Screw People and Help Rethugs Screw People. Volume 3

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Perhaps no issue defines who Carper represents in the Senate and who he doesn't represent in starker terms than his leadership in screwing families down on their luck in favor of the big banks and credit card operations. MBNA, to be more specific. In Carper's world, any feigned empathy consistently takes a back seat to the banking and financial interests who fund his campaigns.  While there is so much to dislike about his record, this issue, in my opinion, is the clarion call for his replacement in 2018. You see, Charles Cawley and MBNA had a dream. A dream that came to them almost every day and night.  They dreamt of a world where down-on-their-luck folks could no longer get out from under huge credit card balances by declaring bankruptcy. No exceptions. The dream was funded by campaign contributions. Huge sums of money dating back to the early 1990's.  One of the earliest beneficiaries of MBNA's largesse was then-Sen. Joe Biden.

Coons MIA, Bonini Shadow Governor, Carper spoiling for fight (over climate change?)

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A couple of takeaways from yesterday's NJ front pager from Adam Duvernay. 1) Coons is signaling a desire to just be left alone for four years. Fat chance of that happening. History has its eyes on this Congress. Will it be the one that sells out the Republic for a little peace and quiet and some highway money? The coons response to that appears to be a stage whisper, "Hell yes"

The December 6, 2016 Thread

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“The problem for the Democratic Party is not that its policies aren’t progressive or populist enough,” writes Fareed Zakaria in a Washington Post op-ed. “They are already progressive and are substantially more populist than the Republican Party’s on almost every dimension. And yet, over the past decade, Republicans have swept through statehouses, governors’ mansions, Congress and now the White House. Democrats need to understand not just the Trump victory but that broader wave…Hillary Clinton’s campaign, for instance, should have been centered around one simple theme: that she grew up in a town outside Chicago and lived in Arkansas for two decades. The subliminal message to working-class whites would have been “I know you. I am you.” It was the theme of her husband’s speech introducing her at the Democratic convention, and Bill Clinton’s success has a lot to do with the fact that, brilliant as he is, he can always remind those voters that he knows them. Once reassured, they are then open to his policy ideas.”