The Delaware Audubon Society has called bullshit on the Coastal Zone Gutting Act, refusing to participate in the “workshops” at which the state intends to collect comments before ignoring them. This is a perfect illustration of liberalism/progressivism vs. the Democratic Party. Scott Goss’ story points out that this is backed not only by the state Chamber of Commerce but by its unions as well. Gutting the environment for jobs is what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin. It’s not a liberal thing to do. These are the people we must oust from leadership of the party, or the party is dead.
The GOP tax bill continues to get worse, ostensibly because giving more to the rich was the big problem with the bill before. Even with the rush job through Congress, the public is not fooled — the polling shows it’s supported almost exclusively by Republicans, possibly because they haven’t been told what’s in it by the folks at Fox.
Here’s an interesting echo of the Roy Moore case from downstate Delaware. A 42-year-old man fathered a child with a 16-year-old and was convicted of rape. His appeal of his absurd sentence of 395 years for what sounds like a consensual relationship was denied by the state Supreme Court, naturally. One of the arguments it rejected was that his conduct was “consistent with rural-American cultural practices.” His biggest mistake, apparently, was not winning elective office before he met his victim.
Reaction to the New York Times profile of an Ohio Nazi continues, with Slate’s Jamelle Bouie weighing in with an important point: Racism in America always has been a banal part of white middle-class privilege.
And, on the oust-Trump front, more signs are pointing to Gen. Mike Flynn co-operating with Robert Mueller’s probe, a development that would spell lot of trouble for the Trump “administration.”
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