Delaware GOP No Longer Has An AG Candidate
Not surprising since I doubt that anyone can remember they had an AG candidate. For the record, her name is/was Peggy Marshall Thomas. In announcing that she was dropping out, …
Re: Looking at Carper’s shitty record, it’s like the flood gates have opened
Carper was one of only three Democrats who voted against the amendment to prohibit any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid resulting from Trump’s tax bill.
Aug. 13 Open Thread: Supremacists So White They’re Invisible
Did the Unite the Right organizers really need to bother with a permit for their Sunday march in Washington? It attracted about 40 people, perhaps the biggest conservative crowd since…
Song Of The Day: Aug.13, 2018
A week of train songs? How about a month? Let's start with a week and see where this train takes us. Leadbelly as channeled through Little Richard and Fishbone kicks…
Carper’s record laid bare
When you lay the whole Carper record out, like Ryan Grim does in this Intercept piece, it really is a fucking train wreck.
Aug. 12 Open Thread: Russia Helped Unite the Right
There's little to learn from the weekend's flood of Charlottesville anniversary stories, except for this one, which has gotten almost no coverage: Rep. Tom Garrett, the Republican who represents Charlottesville…
Song Of The Day: Aug. 12, 2018
Boz always had a gift for the hook. Especially a blue-eyed soul hook. We close out Boz Week with one of my faves:
Grassley Announces Kavanaugh Hearings To Begin Sept. 4
Chris Coons will get a national stage for his maniacal bipartisanship showboating.
Aug. 11 Open Thread: DNC Caves to Fossil Fuel Industry
Two months ago, the Democratic National Committee announced it would reject donations from the fossil-fuel industry. This uncharacteristically populist move lasted all of two months before the mainstream organization reversed…
Song Of The Day: Aug. 11, 2018
Boz wrote some great ones, and he knew great ones when he heard them. Like this Allen Toussaint-penned classic:
Dover Mayor’s Wife Leading Online Smear Campaign of Sean Lynn – Part 2
When wingnut firehose of vitriol opens up it can be a shocking experience. The level of hate and bile that Trumpers can muster up at the drop of a hat is unsettling. But is it honestly felt emotion based on the kind of legitimate differences of opinion that are baked into democracy - or is it concocted? The working out of a grievance that they will not address directly?
The hate-fest directed at Lynn appears to have been concocted by the NRA and Cindy Christensen, the wife of the Mayor of Dover. As far as the NRA's role goes, this quarterly financial report is the smoking gun.
Tom Carper has only himself to blame
Money for bombs is free and easy to find. Money for medicare-for-all will break the bank. The jig is up Tom. Washington (CNN)Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned why Republicans…
Aug. 10 Open Thread: It’s Racists All the Way Down
When Jason330 wrote the other day that Ken Simpler must be a racist simply because he's a Republican, I probably wasn't the only reader who winced. But Jason isn't the…