Month: September 2017

Trump's economic advisor Gary Cohn said Thursday that an American family could save $1,000 under the Republicans' proposed tax reform plan, and that would be awesome for the economy because…

I'm seriously asking. Not what is Trump going to do, what are we going to do? What are the most practical, helpful things we can do to help out?

This Cape Gazette Editorial is chock a block with common-sense.

A reference in the Sept. 22 edition of the Cape Gazette stood out because of its unusual nature. An article discussed the experience level of a California contractor hired by Rehoboth Beach for its treated wastewater outfall project. The reference came in a discussion about the potential perception problem created by dumping treated effluent in ocean waters. A municipal employee for a California water district talked about an ocean outfall built to discharge extra-salty water left over from a reverse osmosis process that removes salt from seawater. The process provides fresh water for a parched region. People there were concerned that the effluent would make kids sick or harm marine animals. "Mulligan said the perception was ... mitigated by public confidence in California's regulatory climate, which is very strict."

You'd think Carney's willingness (eagerness?) to play ball with trickle-down, wingnut economics would buy him some slack among discredited deficit alarmist.

A new report has given Delaware an "F'' grade for its fiscal health.

Two breaking stories even before Roy Moore beats Big Luther Strange tonight: GOP Won't Even Vote On Graham/Cassidy. Sen. Corker of Tennessee Will Retire.  R nominee will almost certainly be…

Man-oh-man I've already had it with Carney.

Unemployment numbers in Delaware reached a two-year high, according to the latest preliminary data from the state's labor department. If the information holds true, it will mark the 12th consecutive month the state's unemployment rate has either climbed or remained the same. The rate, 4.9 percent, is the highest since coming in at 4.9 percent in May 2015. It hasn't jumped to five percent since February 2015. Meanwhile, the number hasn't fallen since mid-2016. "These numbers aren't where we need them to be, which is why we continue to be focused on our number one priority: helping businesses create good-paying jobs across our state," Gov. John Carney said. "I spent much of the summer talking to Delawareans and business leaders about ways to grow our economy, and we will keep working day in and day out on this issue."

Blah, blah blah. What a loser. "I've talked to people." Oy-vey! He doesn't dare mention his crony capitalism committee because it is already a stinking embarrassment. And yet, as far as stinking embarrassments go, the crony capitalism committee takes a second place to the clusterfuck GOP state budget he meekly signed after getting utterly pwned by the Republicans.

Lee Atwater let the cat out of the bag way back in 1981, and it is still true.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

So if Republican polices don't seem to make sense, it doesn't matter. They aren't supposed to. They are simply there to show that the GOP hates blacks. If their policies hurt middle and lower class whites, it doesn't matter as long as "blacks get hurt worse." That is the GOP that Tom Carper and Chris Coons want to find common ground with. That's Chris Coons' prayer group for you. And it isn't some kind of closely guarded secret. They've been using this playbook since Nixon.