Archive for June, 2022
REV and Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial Part 10: Spiros! Yo, Spiros Mantzavinos..where are you scurrying off to all of a sudden?
The cold open alone is worth getting off the wallet and setting up a recurring patronage. Beyond that Horsey is a Kent County/Eastern Shore name. There is a Horsey Blvd in Dover. I think Christopher Horsey was recently the Kent County (MD?) employee of the year or some shit. Patricia Joan O. Horsey wrote a […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday July 28 2022
Cable news has had “Roe V Wade” obituaries in the can and ready to go for months, but there was zero White House plan for this ruling beyond the utter embarrassment of the “give me $15 for November” fundraiser. (see video) Oh Wait! The White House is planning to barnstorm on this… …hold on…, what? […]
Support the First State Abortion Fund
We all know that the sisters, wives, daughters and granddaughters of Supreme Court Justices and US Senators will always have all the access to abortions and whatever reproductive health care they need. Row v. Wade was not overturned to stop wealthy people from getting abortions. It was overturned to beat up on poor people. Full […]
Minority Rule
Al, this graph really puts what you’ve been saying about minority rule into sharp focus. If the United States had a functioning Democratic Party, this would be a real problem for the Republicans.
Song of the Day 6/27: Colin Hay, “Beautiful World”
I apologize for the mellow streak, but laid-back music is about the only thing that keeps the rage at bay these days. This Colin Hay song from his 2001 album “Going Somewhere” actually addresses the need to take solace in the simple things as a refuge from the deluge of doom. The verses list his […]
REV and Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial Part 9 – “This is what you wanted, Right!?”
Why not use your state issued P-card to throw these guys a recurring five or ten dollar patronage?
As the Kathy McGuiness trial ended its second week, Kathy’s hyper-paranoid office shenanigans are explored by even more witnesses. Also, is Judge Carpenter finally tamping down on the razzle dazzle?
“The inappropriate comments between counsel are stopping today.”
DL Open Thread Monday June 27 2022
Very important action item from Sean Lynn below, but first…
Chris Coons Heaps Praise on John Cornyn While John Cornyn Heaps Shame on Himself
Coons: I am proud to partner with Senator Cornyn on this bipartisan effort to support scholarship on civics, the preparation of civics educators, and the training of a new generation of active citizens.”
Just days later Senator John Cornyn provides a civics lesson via tweet:
@JohnCornyn
Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education.
Quote Tweet
Barack Obama
@BarackObama
· Jun 24
Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
You read that right. The very guy who Coons is “proud” to call his partner, just quote tweeted Barack Obama and said that now that Roe is gone, Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education should follow.
There is literally nothing they can do or say that can do to shake Coons’ faith in the goodwill of his Republican partners.
Coons Gloats Over Glorious Bipartisan Work with Rob Portman While Portman Gloats Over the Destruction of Woman’s Reproductive Health Care
Coons can’t help it. He has to provide sloppy on camera BJs to any Republicans who is willing to put out a press release with the word “bipartisanship” in it. Chris Coons (D(?)-DE) VIDEO: “First I just want to thank Senator Portman for being a great partner on many different things…so first let me thank […]
Song of the Day 6/26: Stubby Kaye and Peter Palmer, “The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands”
Today’s song comes from the 1959 Broadway musical “L’il Abner,” and it shows that hayseeds have been bitching about the same crap for generations. My memory was jogged last Sunday when I heard the tune on Geo. Stewart’s radio show “Crazy College,” which airs every Sunday at 6 5 p.m. on WVUD. Last week’s episode […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 26, 2022
Republicans, drunk on their own minority-rule power, think they now have a shot at banning abortion nationwide. If all they have to do to achieve it is outwit our feckless Democratic politicians, I’d say they have a chance. But I don’t think this ends the way conservatives think it does. Anti-anti-abortion violence has already begun. […]
Senator Chris Coons Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Rebranding as the “Shocked, Sad, Disappointed & Betrayed” Caucus
You’d have to be a stone cold dummy to go around saying that this is all some kind of surprise. Or, I suppose, you could act surprised if you were some kind of cold blooded cynic who knew people would swallow whatever lies bubbled out of you.
DL Open Thread Saturday June 25 2022
Good mornin’, starshine
The Earth says, “Hello”
You twinkle above us
Coons, Biden and LBR twinkle below…
The Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry is partying like it is 1868.
Essentially, Justice Alito argued that for an unwritten liberty right to be legitimate, it must be deeply rooted in the nation’s history and have been understood to exist when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Back then, he wrote, many states had criminalized abortion and there was no understanding that women had a right to end their pregnancies.
Many people are wondering how this leaves Justice Clarance Thomas marriage to insane rightwing nutcase Ginni Thomas intact, but invoking the well known precedent of “LOL, Fuck YOU!” Thomas seems ready to damn the torpedoes.
Collins is shocked.
Biden thinks Dems need to vote HARDER!
Coons thinks this came out of the blue, (had nothing to do with the US Senate where bipartisan compromise is still possible [see recent gun deal crumbs scoffingly served up by Mitch McConnell]).
Lisa Blundt Rochester (rightly) thinks the work of the Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry will fall “disproportionately on women of color and in rural communities across the country” but (wrongly) thinks the answer is to VOTE HARDER.
Can someone let me know when the Democratic strategy of offering nothing to voters other than scolding admonitions to “VOTE HARDER!” has actually worked? Because from where I’m sitting it seems like offering voters nothing except scolding admonitions to vote harder is exactly the strategy that got us here.
REV & Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial (Day 6) – The Auditor Who Really Needed an Auditor
The very office that is charged with rooting out the state government’s “waste fraud and abuse” was a hotbed of waste fraud and abuse.
It’s 6 days in and the trial finally touches on the fact that while Kathy was doing all this shit and bringing on her daughter and her daughter’s buddy and making up loyalty oaths and misusing the state seal to glorify Kathy McGuiness, the thing she wasn’t doing was her fucking job. Now that’s not a crime, but it should be judged like one by the voters.
More witnesses on Day 6 of the Kathy McGuiness trial: more haters, more p-cards, and more hostile workplace environments. We also learn more about the man, the myth, the legend: Thomas Van Horn.
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