Day: September 26, 2017

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.

Lindsey Graham still thinks it can pass, and who really knows. The bill sponsors and White House are throwing billions around in "block grants" to states. That strategy may still turn a Democratic head or two. Isn't it strange how they horrifying "National Debt" isn't so horrifying when Republicans are in charge? A balanced budget? That is for suckers. But that's inside baseball. Consider this larger point - the whole shit show hangs on whether or not Insurance companies will have the ability to gouge people who happen to already be injured or sick. The GOP is OPENLY saying that insurance companies should have no civic responsibility WHATSOEVER, and that their only responsibility is to their bottom line profitability. We Democrats can't beat that noxious proposition at the ballot box? Truly - we suck.