Big Announcement From Sen. McBride?
Yes, according to the News Journal's Scott Goss: Scott Goss ✔ @ScottGossDel Being told Senate President David McBride is going to make "a big announcement" around 4:30 p.m. today.…
Song of the Day 1/9: “Blind Willie McTell,” The Band
Most people, myself included, think this is one of Bob Dylan's greatest songs, but almost nobody would have heard it if The Band hadn't plucked it from obscurity for their…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 9, 2019
Yesterday was All Ceremony. Congratulations to all. Let's get down to business. According to press reports, the General Assembly has two must-pass bills for January: The second leg of Delaware's…
Open Thread – Trump’s TV Show Ratings Sucked
To be honest, I don't know how Trump's address did in terms of TV ratings. I suspect he bombed. I didn't watch. Did any of you?
Apparently, it was terrible. His eyes were squinty and his expression flat.
The words, which often sounded more like a speechwriter’s than Trump’s own, were delivered with such slow and deliberate articulation that comic Seth MacFarlane tweeted that the 9-something-minute address “had the cadence of a Wheel of Fortune contestant solving the puzzle.”
BREAKING: Laura Sturgeon To Chair Senate Education Committee
Of course, Exceptional Delaware had it first: https://exceptionaldelaware.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/sokola-out-as-chair-of-senate-education-committee-sturgeon-will-be-chair/ Dave will still be on the committee, but, as chair, Sturgeon will have a lot of influence on the state's education agenda. …
Sussex County Young Republican Chair Quits the GOP – Citing Republicans
Butthurt that his candidate didn't win the Senate primary, complete gun nut and SCYR Chair Hunter Hastings, suddenly discovered that Sussex County Republicans were a bunch of a-holes. Read his…
Open Thread – Trump Show “Live” Tonight & “Hummers” Parade Dead
Trump is expected to declare some national security emergency tonight because 4 people on the terrorist watch list were once stopped at our border with Mexico. So all other news…
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., January 8, 2019
Please excuse me while I jump into the Wayback Machine to pay a visit to January 2017 in order to do a cut-n paste. Be back in a jif... ...I'm…
Song of the Day 1/8: “American Tune,” Crooked Still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1GvZkxRbQ Paul Simon once said this was the closest he came to an overtly political song. He wrote it shortly after Richard Nixon's landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972,…
Coons Sides with Trump on “See Through” Border Wall During Fox & Friends Segment
Coons gotta Coons.
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.
Quote of the Day
“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…
Someone is writing tweets for a comatose Tom Carper
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.
Doddering Tom Carper on why Doddering Joe Biden Should Be Prez
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.