DL GOP Fantasy Pool Update – Rand’s Hissy Fit & Jeb!s Continuing Deathwatch

A: "Some people have been in touch, and they want to give me all these millions to run for President, even though nobody, AND I MEAN NOBODY, can stomach the idea of another Bush being President after my Bro f#cked it up so bad. Well, I guess I can take the millions if they are so fixed on giving 'em to me."
Q: What was Jeb! thinking? That's the most plausible explanation for the Bush campaign that I can come up with. His campaign has weeks, not months left to soak some rich idiots. Rand Paul is also in trouble, so he is going ROGUE !!
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., Jan. 12, 2016.

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., Jan. 12, 2016.

My outlook for January: Real interesting real fast. Just like today's Al Show will be. The second session of the 148th General Assembly kicks off today.  Since it's not a new General Assembly, everything that was in place on July 1 remains in place today.  It's gonna be a wild and wooly month.  You can look forward to: 1. Votes on overriding the veto of HB 50-the 'opt-out' bill. The bill passed both houses with veto-proof majorities.  The House vote was overwhelming, 36-3, so it should get through the House in comfortable fashion. The final Senate vote was 15-6, so that is the chamber where Markell might be able to flip a couple of senators.  I will be especially interested to see whether her run for Lieutenant Governor might play into Sen. Bethany Hall-Long switching sides.  I'd like to point out that HB 50 has already had a key impact.  The decision by the Department of Education to cancel the 'Smarter Balanced' test for juniors in favor of the SAT would almost certainly not have been made without the catalyst of HB 50.  In fact, you may recall that Sen. Bryan Townsend introduced and passed an amendment extending the opt-out provision to high school juniors.  That amendment is no longer necessary, for the best of reasons. More inside...

Ted Cruz’ Mom was a Canadian in 1974

I, for one, am glad to have Ted Cruz ruled ineligible to be President. He is creepy and probably a secret Cuban Communist. While I'd prefer he was ruled out based on his whack-ass politics, I'll accept his being ruled out via crazy internet lynch mob.
"So when they knock on doors, they ask them: are you Canadian citizens, are you 18 years of age or older, and are you a resident in this facility and how long have you been living here?"
Monday Open Thread [1.11.2016]

Monday Open Thread [1.11.2016]

Dan Balz: “The more the Republican candidates have amped up their rhetoric, the more they have triggered a sharp response from the Democrats. Hillary Clinton, who said last fall that she is proud to think of Republicans as enemies, never seems happier on the campaign trail than when she is denouncing the other party as one captured by extremists.”

We Can Be Heroes

David Bowie has died. Out of all the musicians I listened to, Bowie was my first and lasting love. I'll leave you with my favorite Bowie song.
A State of the Union to Remember

A State of the Union to Remember

I was essentially beyond words when Christy told me. Braeden’s been to the White House twice before, when he won in 2013 and when he was asked back to speak at the Kids’ State Dinner winners in 2014, and both trips were humbling and amazing, but this one is something else. To be asked to sit in a room with Congress, the Supreme Court justices, most of the president’s cabinet, and listen to one of the most important speeches the president can deliver, to be interviewed and featured by Time Magazine, to have your bio posted on the White House website, I don’t even know what to say. I couldn’t be more proud of Braeden and the ideas he’s come up with, the way he’s implemented them, and how he’s stuck with it for the last 3 years.