Archive for March, 2019
Delaware Gun Nuts Urged to Call Their Senators Re HB63 – But Why?
A gun nut site that I don’t want to link to is urging readers to help protect the right of irresponsible gun owners to act irresponsibly. That’s predicable, but someone help out understanding this part of it: The gun nut’s opposition is based on the “fact” that HB63 makes it impossible for gun nuts to […]
Lisa Blunt Rochester Sent a Letter
Your rep in Congress would like you to know that she sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. What she did with the other 97% of her workday remains shrouded in mystery.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) led all Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma. The letter calls for HHS and CMS to make public any and all documents, including results of studies, briefing presentations, and data sets, including econometric models and individual-level experiments, regarding the effectiveness of marketing and outreach efforts for the Affordable Care Act.
“If we are to stabilize the Affordable Care Act, we need to take a 360-degree approach that revisits the cost of prescription drugs, how we incentivize new states to establish state-based markets, and how we attract younger, healthy people to sign up and get covered,” said Congresswoman Blunt Rochester.
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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 28, 2019
A ‘Just the facts, Ma’am’ edition due to time constraints and a few glitches in the legislative information system. (Memo to Legislative Council: You might want to take LIS for a test drive. It’s been a little temperamental lately. Nothing serious, though.) Don’t worry, ‘Teh Snark’ will return as warranted. The Senate unanimously passed legislation […]
Song of the Day 3/28: The (English) Beat, “Stand Down Margaret”
British pop lost another voice this week when Ranking Roger of the English Beat died of cancer at just 56 years old. The Beat was at the forefront of England’s ska revival, and Roger Charlery’s island-flavored vocals were at the forefront of the Beat. Roger was just 16 and drumming for a band called the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 27, 2019
Four D state reps voted against one of the most innocuous gun reform measures you could possibly imagine. Keeping loaded firearms away from kids would seem to be as cut-and-dried as you could get. Not to Andria Bennett, Bill Bush, Lumpy Carson, and Quin Johnson, it isn’t. Of the four, only Lumpy could even claim […]
Time for a “Moms Demand Action” primary challenge of the NRA’s Quin Johnson & Andria Bennett
The NRA is on the run in Delaware and it is time to drive the blood-soaked caucus out of the state once and for all. Moms Demand Action has been very effective and the logical next step will be setting up candidates to primary these Democrats who toe the NRA line: Andria Bennett Bill […]
Biden Condemns ‘White Man’s Culture’
One of Joe Biden’s quirks is that he thinks nobody notices when he changes. He’s had two hair-plug operations and an eye job, but nobody ever talks about it so he thinks nobody noticed. Now that he’s running for president as the only Democrat in the field who voted for the war in Iraq, he’s […]
Song of the Day 3/27: The Walker Brothers, “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
UK music critics and fans are mourning the March 22 death of Scott Walker, pop idol-turned-avant garde composer. He’s most widely known as lead singer of the Walker Brothers, a Los Angeles trio that reversed the British Invasion formula by hitting it big in England in the mid-1960s, first with the Bacharach/David classic “Make It […]
2020 is the only play and it always has been
This dude knows what’s going on. And this from TPM: In the late 19th and early 20th century, German military strategy, influenced by the work of the historian Hans Delbrück, became obsessed with the distinction between Ermattungsstrategie (exhausting strategy or more loosely attrition strategy) and Niederwerfungsstrategie (knockout strategy). This distinction played itself out in history […]
Delaware is Solidly Blue, So Why is Coons Running as Republican-Lite?
Coons has built a brand ID in the Senate as the GOP’s favorite Democrat. That makes no sense when you look at the state that he was elected to represent. 538.com’s “Partisan Lean” is the average difference between how a state voted and how the country voted overall. Delaware is 13% more Democratic than the […]
Rethugs Looking For New State Chair
Mike Harrington is stepping down as Chair of the State Republican Committee. From Matt Bittle’s Twitter feed: Republican Party Chairman Mike Harrington is not running for a second term. “Unfortunately, a number of personal matters have stepped in the way. They are items that I cannot postpone. They will monopolize my time,” he writes in […]
Breaking: Lisa Blunt Rochester Statement on Mueller Report Non-Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) issued the following statement following Attorney General Bill Barr’s non-release of the report of the Office of Special Counsel headed by Robert S. Mueller:
New Jersey Harshes the Legal Marijuana Mellow
The road to recreational marijuana legalization was closed for repairs in New Jersey yesterday, when a wide-ranging bill that would have both legalized weed and made it easier to expunge old convictions was withdrawn because it lacked the votes to pass. Lex Wilson at the News Journal tried to assess what it means for a […]
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