Archive for March, 2022
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 27, 2022
Fascinating Portrait Of Vladimir Putin. Why he is the way he is. Well worth a NYTimes subscription. Too much to even excerpt. Read it online, or try to find a newspaper edition. Basically, he hated being humiliated. OK, just one excerpt: In 1993, Mr. Yeltsin ordered the Parliament shelled to put down an insurgency; 147 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 26, 2022
Rethug Congressman Found Guilty Of Lying About Illegal Campaign Contributions. Poor guy, after his conviction, he read a letter from his daughter saying how much she loves him anyway: A federal jury on Thursday convicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign […]
Delaware Political Weekly: March 18-24, 2022
1. Whither SD 3? I’ve pretty much got only questions. I’m counting on you to provide information and/or speculation. Following her destruction of police reform, can or will Sen. Lockman run for reelection? I don’t think she can, but never underestimate the self-delusion of politicians. Who will run for the seat? I mean, you’ve got […]
Song of the Day 3/25: 10,000 Maniacs, “Peace Train”
How could a song that advocates peace become controversial? Well, how about if the guy who wrote it later supported the assassination of an author for blasphemy? Even when it was released on 1971’s “Teaser and the Firecat,” Cat Stevens’ first US Top 10 hit wasn’t universally admired. With the war in Vietnam still raging, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 25, 2022
Money For Nothin’. The coming-together of Carney’s brain-dead ‘budget-smoothing’, the lack of virtually any guardrails on that windfall of Federal money, and the cynicism of the Delaware General Assembly. Because there are apparently no problems that need addressing in Delaware. We have the region’s dirtiest streams and rivers? We’re overridden by pollutants? We have too […]
Ginnie Thomas and the End of the Elite Consensus
If we elites could only get together behind closed doors and hash things out as God and nature intended – then we wouldn’t have these lower class QAnon rabble and leftist BLM whackos trying to throw the economy in the toilet.
Elites, like us, ultimately all want the same things. Stable markets, less onerous regulation, occasional insider trading info, and lower taxes for the wealthy. Sure we’ll argue about abortion or whatever – but that is a little show for the rubes.
Coonsian bipartisanship and the fetishization of “cooperation” isn’t so much about people with different views on the issues getting together. It is much more classist than that. It is about class affiliation and agreement among elites on some big worldview items, and not about political parties “finding middle ground.”
Or it was that, anyway. It is a very strange view for Coons to continue to hold these days when the elite consensus with regard to trading off control of the White House and Congress every once in a while has completely broken down.
I mean, Ginnie Thomas is going to make the next cocktail party at Bezos Manner very awkward with her nonsense. Very awkward, indeed.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is Not Going to Make It – I’m Sorry to Have to Break That News to You
I never thought she stood much of a chance. First of all, she made the mistake of having been nominated by a Democratic President. That’s damming info, right there. But there is also Murkowski and Collins looking wobbly as they don’t want to be seen going to bat for a child molester.
With those two gone, President Joe Manchin makes the call and you know, it is just so political and partisan to be nominating justices in this environment. Also, Biden never consulted with the GOP on this nomination. So there is that.
When she was nominated, quite a few people speculated that a lot of Republican senators would vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination, given that “no” votes would almost certainly be futile. The members of the GOP’s rapidly shrinking club of senatorial bipartisan fetishists could therefore indulge their particular kink at no practical cost, with the extra added benefit for them of proving how totally not racist or sexist they were by voting for a black woman.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Wow, a good day! Much of it memorialized in the press, which always makes my job easier. SS1/SB 101 (Townsend), which provides legal assistance to renters in landlord-tenant disputes, cleared the House Housing And Community Affairs Committee. Huge shout-outs not only to Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, Rep. Bud Freel, and committee chair Kendra Johnson, but also […]
Song of the Day 3/24: U2, “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of”
As the Ukraine War grinds into its second month, this seems like a fitting commentary on Vladimir Putin’s predicament. Bono wrote the song, which appeared on the band’s 2000 LP “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” after the suicide of his friend Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS, as an argument against suicide. Seems like […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Looks Like The Manhattan DA Ran Interference For Trump: Trump ‘Guilty Of Multiple Felonies’: The question, of course, is why did this Alvin Bragg pull the plug on the investigation? One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it […]
Sedition. Simple as That.
This statement released by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on the occasion of Trump pulling his endorsement of Brooks should be bombshell news that pushes all other news into irrelevance. It will not, of course. Our 4th estate is useless. President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
False advertising. At least for the most part. I couldn’t shut off my brain following what happened with LEOBOR Reform yesterday. I’m not sure my thoughts will make any more sense as I write them down, but I’m gonna try. In one inexplicable regard, what Tizzy Lockman did yesterday is unprecedented when it comes to […]
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