Year: 2017

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.

REV got to the heart of the new economic board's shameful secrecy in his letter to the News Journal.   This is no way for a Democracy to do business.

I found this at Redstate.com of all places. The DEGOP reminds me of Solzhenitsyn's cheaters in the back of the room. They don't have the guts to stop applauding, but they exchange knowing "this is bullshit" glances as the applauding for the Dotard in Chief goes on and on. Those glances, I suppose, are their flimsy alibis when this really go south. Their threadbare arguments that they never really bought into Trump in the first place will hang on those thin reeds.

Not my headline, although I wish I wrote it. The Democratic Party has experienced an 11 percent drop in support from black women, that's headline worthy. But it isn't just black women. The country is waking up to the fact that the DLC-Clintonomics-Banks First-Democratic Party, is full of shit. How else can you explain people voting for dotard carnival barker, Donald J Trump? Sadly this article strays into the reductive nonsense that frames any conflict within the Democratic Party as a conflict between "white working class" and the non-white - when in fact the factions are the John Carney, Tom Carper, Chris Coons, Clintonite 1%ers versus (literally) everyone else. Nevertheless less, it is refreshing to see another interest group becoming aware off the fact that the Democratic Party isn't safeguarding their interests.

Dear Jack, I’ve just finished reading your N.Y. Times op-ed and I feel it’s my obligation to Delaware’s taxpayers to respond. I’d like to think that your most recent missive…

He appears to be the one guy in the GOP who puts the best interest of the country ahead of the corrupt interest of the Republican Party.