DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 14, 2020

5 Million Americans Have Lost Health Insurance During Pandemic.  Government programs are helping only some of them.

White House Shoots The Messenger (Fauci).  Of course, they distort his words to try to make their case. And then deny that they’re doing what they’re doing.  This quote from former Pa. R congressman Charlie Dent pretty much sums it up:

Charlie Dent, a former GOP congressman from Pennsylvania, was an exception. Fauci, he tweeted, “has not been well-schooled in bootlicking and sycophancy.”

TX Rethugs Can’t Hold Their State Convention.  The TX Supreme Court basically ruled that, while R’s have Constitutional rights, they don’t have the right to pollute an arena and subject workers to infection.  The judges saved them from themselves.

Miss. (!) Governor Blisters Anti-Mask Conspiracy Theorists.  ‘Herd immunity’ ain’t coming through that door any time soon.

NJ Puts $578 Mill In Corporate Tax Giveaways On Hold.  We need a governor who will do something just like this in Delaware. Our current governor created the secret bank that provides corporate giveaways to undeserving recipients here.  Who’s that guy primarying Carney?

One-Third Of Sussex Correctional Inmates Have Coronavirus.  One thing that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Delaware Corrections Commissioner Claire DeMatteis have in common: Embarrassingly premature victory laps.

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