Archive for April, 2022

Delaware Political Weekly: April 15-21, 2022

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on April 22, 2022 • 11 Comments

1.  Rethugs Find Themselves An Auditor Candidate–And, Yes, She’s Out There.  No, she hasn’t filed for the ballot yet.  But she filed her campaign committee this week.  Her name is Janice Lorrah, and if her name is familiar, it should be.  She filed suit to end Carney’s school mask mandate. Not, you know, because she’s […]

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Song of the Day 4/22: AC/DC, “Dog Eat Dog”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on April 22, 2022 • 0 Comments

Kevin McCarthy has never been among the sharper tools in the GOP congressional shed — he once voiced his belief, in front of witnesses, that Trump was on the Kremlin payroll — but he really should have seen that Rachel Maddow coming with that right cross. Maybe somebody should warn him that when push comes […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 22, 2022

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on April 22, 2022 • 9 Comments

DeSantis Vs. Disney: Can We Root For BOTH Sides To Lose?: Disney employs 38 lobbyists in Florida’s capital. Each election cycle, the company gives generous campaign contributions to Florida candidates on both sides of the political aisle. Its theme park megaresort near Orlando attracts around 50 million visitors a year, powering a Central Florida tourism […]

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Song of the Day 4/21: Frank Sinatra, “I Have Dreamed”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on April 21, 2022 • 6 Comments

Philadelphia disc jockey Sid Mark, host of the nationally syndicated “Sounds of Sinatra” radio program that aired locally on WPHT-AM as “Sundays With Sinatra,” died this week at age 88. He had been playing Frank Sinatra’s music over the airwaves for more than 65 years, and closed every show with this Rodgers and Hammerstein tune […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 21, 2022

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‘Hate Will Only Win If People Like Me Stand By And Let It Happen.’  One Democratic State Senator breaking from the torpor of the Democratic Party: When Michigan Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow stood on the chamber floor to take on a Republican colleague who had accused her of wanting to sexually groom children, she […]

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Burn the entire corrupt edifice down

Filed in National by on April 20, 2022 • 0 Comments

According to Senator Chris Coons, the bad liberals and progressives (who hold all the power in the Democratic Party) put us in this dire situation by not clapping hard enough for glorious centrism.

Trumpism Resplendant

There’s something much worse than losing the House, and possibly the Senate, that’s rattling top Democrats who are studying polling and election trends:The big picture: It’s the possibility of a re-elected President Trump with a compliant, filibuster-proof Senate majority in January 2025.

The bottom line: David Shor, one of Democrats’ most respected data scientists, has been sounding the alarm for months. “Unless we see big structural changes in the Democratic party’s coalition,” he tweeted, the 2024 outcome could be “Donald Trump winning a *filibuster-proof trifecta* [House, Senate, White House] with a minority of the vote.”

 

“Structural changes” in this context typically means even more vigorous obsequiousness and further watering down popular Democratic policies until they are 99.99999999999% water.

If that fails (and it always fails) Hunter Biden and the entire Biden family should have a jet fueled and ready on the tarmac.

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Song of the Day 4/20: The Doors, “Light My Fire”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on April 20, 2022 • 4 Comments

Believe it or not, kidz, this song was once considered a paean to weed because the first verse ends with the line, “Girl we couldn’t get much higher.” After “Light My Fire” reached No. 1 in September 1967, Ed Sullivan booked the band — but wanted them to alter the offending line. Jim Morrison didn’t, […]

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These Ten Incumbents Need Challengers ASAP!

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on April 20, 2022 • 20 Comments

This list does not include any incumbents who already have credible challengers.  It also does not include either Speaker Pete or Our PAL Val.  I just think that, with their war chests, it makes more sense to remove them from leadership by electing more progressives to the General Assembly.  We already have some good challengers, […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday April 20 2022

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I guess I’m a little age-ist. The Geriatric Party Biden is 79, but he is still younger than the entire House Democratic leadership. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are both 82, while Majority Whip Jim Clyburn is 81. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is a comparative spring chicken at […]

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Song of the Day 4/19: Dr. Feelgood, “Down at the Doctors”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on April 19, 2022 • 1 Comment

I hoped it was just rockin’ pneumonia or the boogie-woogie flu, but the test strip says it’s Covid. Lee Brilleaux and Dr. Feelgood claim to have a cure — he’s gonna shoot some rock ‘n’ roll in my arm. This isn’t the original lineup of the pub rockers who paved the road to punk — […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday April 19 2022

Filed in National by on April 19, 2022 • 5 Comments

Whackjob Trump appointed judge unilaterally sets new public health policy.  Remember when Coons worked feverishly to push through a mess of whack-job Trump judges by voting them out of committee, then covered his ass by voting “nay” in the full Senate?  Good times. A former caseworker and campaign aide for Rep. Madison “fun drives” Cawthorn […]

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Gov. Carney Owes Delawareans An Answer To This Question:

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on April 18, 2022 • 19 Comments

If a marijuana legalization bill reaches your desk, will you: A. Sign it? B. Let it become law without your signature? Or: C. Veto it? I ask this question because your stock answer, “I’m looking forward to hearing the debate on the floor”, doesn’t apply. As if it ever did.  You’ve by now heard countless legislative debates […]

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DL Open Thread Monday April 18 2022

Filed in National by on April 18, 2022 • 4 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern GOP…Crabs in a bucket. Trump holds bum fights in his Palm Beach palace to decide who he is going to endorse.

Also.. Coons did suggest more direct US involvement in Ukraine might be something to consider.

And… Guns, guns, guns.

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