Day: January 7, 2019

Coons gotta Coons.

Sen. Chris Coons said Monday that President Donald Trump's shift from insisting on a concrete wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to a steel slat barrier marks a "minor but important" step towards compromise on solving the ongoing government shutdown.

Coons (D-Del.), in an interview with Fox News's "Fox & Friends," urged the president to stick with his proposal, made to Democrats over the weekend alongside additional funding for other needs at the southern border. The lawmaker called the idea “a minor but important difference in technology,” with the caveat that Trump has at times been inconsistent in his demands and rhetoric on the issue.

“In the eyes of Trump’s base, whatever [he] is doing is the right thing, or he wouldn’t do it — it’s just that simple. Trump’s base is not holding him…

How do I know it isn't Carper? Well, for starters, it isn't 30,000 words. It makes sense and hangs together. It supports Sen. Chris Van Hollen's call to stymie other Senate business until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reopens the government. It treats Trump and McConnell as adversaries, not mildly confused friends. In short, this tweet has no Tom Carper DNA on it.

.@ChrisVanHollen is right. It can't be business as usual in Congress until @realDonaldTrump does his job and our government is reopened. Ending the #TrumpShutdown -- which is hurting American families and putting our national security at risk -- must be our priority.

Carper thinks Biden would be a good President because he gets along with Mitch McConnell. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?! Carper thinks that is what America is clamoring for? Carper thinks THAT is what will make the next President effective? You mean like the time Biden got McConnell to vote on the Merrick Garland nomination? Or maybe Carper is remembering the time Biden got McConnell to vote on reopening the government. I mean JESUS! Can Carper really be this stupid? Except.. yes. Carper could be that stupid.

I'm a sucker for a good cover, especially when it gives a new perspective on the original. "Crazy" was the hit off the 2006 album by Gnarls Barkley (a collaboration…

House Ethics Committee Chair, Valerie Longhurst, announced today that the committee will investigate what many have described as Mike Ramone's "brazen criminality, abuse of public office, and self-dealing" in connection with the recent election and a financial windfall he engineered for himself.

I don't see why we invest Iowans with the authority to pick who can and who can't run for President. So I'll vote for the Dem candidate who says "Fuck…