Archive for June, 2021
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 27, 2021
It’s been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness, just like most right-wing boogeymen. While some LGBTQ activists are disappointed that the ruling didn’t improve much else where rights are concerned, the just-completed census […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 26, 2021
Keep This Bill Dead And Buried. When the bill passed the House quite awhile ago, I thought it was a done deal in the Senate. Thankfully, it’s languished in the Senate, where it should remain. We’re talking about moving the primary to April: The end-of-summer primary is uniquely Delaware and uniquely effective. Titans have been […]
Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Reveals Itself Momentarily – Goes Immediately Back into Hiding
The 14 Republicans who signed Wednesday’s bipartisan statement in support of the pared-down to nothing infrastructure bill are:
- Sens. Richard Burr, of North Carolina;
- Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana;
- Chris Coons, of Delaware;
- Susan Collins, of Maine;
- Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina;
- Joe Manchin, of West Virginia
- Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska;
- Rob Portman, of Ohio;
- Mitt Romney, of Utah;
- Mike Rounds, of South Dakota;
- Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona
- Thom Tillis, of North Carolina
- Todd Young, of Indiana
- Jerry Moran, of Kansas
Here is the list of Republicans Senators who will vote for the actual bill:
- Chris Coons, of Delaware;
Coons Gushes About Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Work on Infrastructure Deal as Infrastructure Deal Falls Apart
McConnell put the kibosh on the pared-down to nothing infrastructure deal in real time. No matter. Coons rushed to take credit for saving America. All hail BIPARTISANSHIP!!! All hail the SUPER SECRET BIPARTISAN CAUCUS!
Q: You were a part of the larger group of 20 bipartisan senators who have been meeting on this. Tell us your thoughts about the impact and the import about what we just heard from the president and your colleagues at the White House.
Sen. Coons: Well, Dana, this is a great day for President Biden, for the determined group of ten Democrats and Republicans who you just heard from – from Kyrsten Sinema and Rob Portman, from Joe Manchin and Susan Collins and others who have been hammering away at this for days and days. And now the work begins to build it out, to make sure that beyond the 21 of us who have publicly been supporting it and urging them along, we get more supporters in both caucuses. Over the next eight years, this represents $1.2 trillion in investment and infrastructure. That really is a big deal. And this framework has $[579] billion in new spending. To get an agreement on that on a bipartisan basis took a lot of very hard work.
So I just want to congratulate the folks who were just over at the White House with President Biden. This is a significant accomplishment. Something that should not go unremarked is that the Senate of the United States also just passed in the last hour and a half a bold bipartisan bill on climate change in the agriculture sector. Senator Stabenow and Senator Braun were the leads on this. There are good bipartisan things happening here in the Senate. I do think for us to accomplish most of President Biden’s boldest agenda in the American Jobs Plan and Family Plan, we will still have to proceed by reconciliation – which I support.
But as you just heard, a Republican senator from Louisiana celebrated the White House. This package has $47 billion to do climate resiliency work. It is great to hear Democrats and Republicans legislating together around something as urgent as combatting climate change and as significant as creating great high-paying jobs, building American infrastructure for this century.
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 25, 2021
A Message To You Rudy: You can’t practice law in New York State: In its 33-page decision, the court said that Mr. Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. “The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be […]
North Sea green energy could overtake oil and gas by 2030, says study
The UK’s half-century legacy as a leading offshore oil and gas hub will be eclipsed by the North Sea’s fast-growing green energy industry within the next decade, according to new research. An academic study by the Robert Gordon University, based in the oil industry capital of Aberdeen in Scotland, has found that by 2030 most […]
Song of the Day 6/24: Tom Cochrane, “Life Is a Highway”
In honor of the Senate’s infrastructure deal, which apparently will be confined to not much more than highways. This one pops up all the time on classic rock radio, and to be honest I never knew when it was released. I don’t recall it ever being a new song — it just started showing up […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday 24, 2021
Dispatcher: “Adam-12, Adam-12, we have a Gold Alert on SB 147 and SB 148. Both have gone missing and have been unaccounted for for at least 48 hours. Please respond.” Trooper Pete: “Roger, Roger. I have them in protective custody. They’re not going anywhere. Over and out.” The preceding dialogue may, or may not, have […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, June 24, 2021: The Sellout
Enough Democrats in the Senate have sold out their party to come up with a skinny infrastructure bill that won’t raise any taxes to fund $600 billion worth of repairs, which means rich fucks skate again thanks to Chris “I’m a rich boy, how ’bout you?” Coons. A couple of former NRA honchos got the […]
Does Kyrsten Sinema have an intellectual disability?
Is “intellectual disability” the correct clinical wording for someone with a very low IQ? Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) defended her opposition to abolishing the 60-vote legislative filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday night, saying to do so would weaken “democracy’s guardrails.” “My support for retaining the 60-vote threshold is not based on the […]
Song of the Day 6/23: Ohio Players, “Funky Worm”
Have you seen any stories about this invasive species of Asian “jumping” earthworms that’s tearing up forest land in the Midwest? Check the link and prepared to be creeped out. But do it while you listen to the Ohio Players’ first charting single, from their 1973 LP “Pleasure.” It was a No. 1 R&B hit, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Pretty much every bill we discussed yesterday passed yesterday. The one exception, HB 122 (Heffernan), which would require that persons with disabilities be paid a minimum wage, is at the top of today’s House Agenda with an amendment by the sponsor. Meaning, all is well with this excellent bill. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. […]
Open Thread Wednesday June 23rd 2021 – Delaware, Fuck Yeah!
What about that Delaware Senate? Fuck Yeah!
What about that Network Delaware? What about that Delaware United? What about that PDD? What about that Common Cause?
Fuck Yeah!
Fuck Yeah!
Fuck Yeah!
What about that Mom’s Demand Action? What about that Highland Bunker? What about that Delaware Call? What about so many others? What about that Activist Democratic Party? Sure…there are some tired old fossils shuffling about, but the new day has dawned and light is streaming in the windows.
Fuck Yeah’s all around.
It’s just amazing how far progressives have come in this state since I first attended a Howard Dean meet up in the Newark on a dark night in January of 2004.
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