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I think he is on Thursday… Oh, and love the spelling in the post…
Must be a lot of dead air time.
Empty headed voters who thought they were voting against Bush are responsible for the Delaware R problems, is what I think I’m hearing.
Smitty, however, is bringing the sensible.
Yes. The republican Party. Bogus War. 10 trillion in debt. Economic Meltdown. Tax gifts for the rich. Nothing for anybody else. Worst environmental record in history. Corruption galore. It will take decades to recover. Only someone with blinders doesn’t get the damage the republican party has done to this nation.
Jesus, people, a man voting 90% of the time for BushCo is hardly a thorn in anyone’s side.
All right, that’s it for me and this station. Apparently Maria thinks that we are all “boys” over here.
Which, if you think about it, is a pretty damn Republican mistake to make.
Delaware’s problems can’t be pinned on George Bush. I was talking Delaware politics, not national.
Politicians hate blogs and prefer talking to the News Journal, DTR, and WDEL because:
1. They can say whatever the hell they want, and know that nobody will ever be able to look it up again and hold them accountable, due to lack of archives, transcripts, and dead links (the “Delaware Memory Hole”). Unlike blogs where statements and analysis are readily available via Google, and
2. If things get too hot they can call the advertisers and shut down a particular line of questioning.
national doesn’t effect local…duh!
Cas,
don’t be done until after tomorrow when I bring the heat!
Thanks for reminding me it was on.
Aren’t you on Thursday, DV? I don’t want to miss it.
Smitty, however, is bringing the sensible.
I always said I love the blunt honesty of this blog!!!!
Eh, give Maria a break (to a point…it is quite fun to hassle the hell out of her). Her Repub views are like mine and she’s shit-full-tired of the jackholes that want conservatism in your private lives, who also somehow managed to make us fringe lunatics. Well, they left the doors to the asylum open and we’re gonna go shit crazy on them now.
The only thing I didn’t like was the tilt of the Northern DE Repubs were at fault. Maria didn’t say that, but I certainly heard that suggested more than once.
“If things get too hot they can call the advertisers and shut down a particular line of questioning.”
What a paranoid crock. I’ve worked at two of the three entities you mention, and no such thing happens. Blame your failures on yourself, thank you.
Slowly starting to think miscreant is a GMD hack. Hmm…
Delaware lives in the same economy as the rest of the US and is certainly living through their fair share of that very bad economy. Besides, voting against GWB locally is a vote against the conservative project, which local conservatives did very little to differentiate themselves from.
Thursday listening is unlikely as I have a meeting in Philly that AM.
But if anyone is listening, Al Mascitti is talking to Mike Protack which ought to be comedy gold.
I’ve worked at two of the three entities you mention, and no such thing happens.
LOL… they wouldn’t call YOU directly. You’d just write about it. But you are probably an exception.
Anyway, there is such a thing as self-censorship.
and one more thing…
I’ve worked at two of the three entities you mention, and no such thing happens.
It doesn’t actually have to HAPPEN to be effective.
How else do you explain why pols who never could be bothered to post to a free blog or even on their own websites, are all over the place at WDEL and DTR?
Christine O’Donnell now up on Al’s show.
“Slowly starting to think miscreant is a GMD hack. Hmm…”
GMD? You finally delivered a fairly substantive insult. I notice you’re still trying to play both sides in your quest for some minor recognition.
Good luck with that.
She sounds like she’s 12 years old.
Not for nothing, but we record and archive every minute of DTR. Even Donviti.
GMD? You finally delivered a fairly substantive insult. 😆
DTR is doomed. Sales will dry up after the election. We won’t have to listen to stupid political ads from the GOP.
Face it, anything with Dave Burris on it is bound to fail. Maybe the new or is it old State Rep from the 41st will appear in DTR?
Only a gut feeling, but most Delaware pols are old enough to think of media mainly as print and broadcast, a way to reach lots of people at once (which is also why their answers tend to be so bland).
The blogosphere is still fragmented. If and when a “mainstream” blog emerges, one that draws a large audience, politicians will start to pay more attention.
Another factor is the GOP’s reliance on old technology for its get-out-the-vote efforts. A new generation of Republicans should learn from the Obama campaign’s creative use of text messaging and the like. Candidates who are more tech-savvy will learn the value of bypassing media filters and taking their messages directly to voters.
Just my opinion, of course.
we record and archive every minute of DTR
I couldn’t find a link.
Everybody archives, even the News Journal. I am sure WDEL has tapes of every minute.
The problem is lack of easy public access (I know… bandwidth is expensive).
And even if audio archives are freely available, most citizens would be defeated by the lack of searchable transcripts. That fact is not lost on the guests.
As I said, the first economic move made by Governor Ruth Ann Minner that I recall was taking jobs making our license plates and outsourcing them to Canada. Our state has bled jobs for the 8 years she’s been in office, you can’t blame that on Bush, you CAN blame that on 8 years of ignoring job creation in our state.
Then there is the environmental disaster that has been the Minner Administration. Backing off regulations, allowing polluters to self regulate, focusing on doling out permits while turning a blind eye to the health and well being of the fine people of our state-again, none of that can be pinned on Bush.
Open government? We have a governor that hasn’t given a press conference in how long? And where does ole Thurman put that legislation he doesn’t like?
I stand by every word I said. Whine about Bush all you want, I certainly do, but Delaware’s problems were created right here.
The “no press conferences” was a good thing.Trust me.
The fact that the automobile industry is crashing as is the banking industry (both industries that are hemorrhaging jobs here) is hardly the fault of RAM. No matter how much tax money you want her to throw at the closing plants, the fact that these automakers cannot sell the cars they make is not something that anyone in Delaware was going to fix. Residential construction has also taken a hit, but the fact that the credit markets crashed and burned also is not RAM’s fault. No really forward-looking economic development team is certainly her fault. But Delaware is certainly not alone in having previously healthy industries get quite weak.
I’ll give you the environmental disaster that RAM has been as well as her intransigence on open government. I am amazed that you would somehow think it unfair that a nationwide repudiation of Republican party policies would actually include the Delaware version of Rs, when I would bet alot of money that if the tables were turned that you’d be chastising the Ds to remember that this is the way politics gets played.
“Throwing money at closing plants” I say absolutely NOT. NO Bailout for auto industry.
Unless the money is used to retool/retro the plants to produce vehicles that replace our severly depleted military vehicle stock and that of other government agencies.
Put People Back to Work Now!
Was I throwing tax money around? Don’t think so.
And some forward looking economic development work could have gone a long way. She’s ignored job creation for 8 years. A last minute junkett to Europe was too little too late.
She is a failure as a governor and we’re all paying the price for it.
Now what about those Senate D’s?
No one is arguing that she wasn’t a failure as Governor — and my almost outsider perspective on job creation is that no Delaware pol D or R would have done all that much about diversification from banking. They were all working way too hard to protect every bit of that industry they could from every lever of government they could push. Much like alot of underwater homeowners right now, all Delaware pols bought into the “markets always go up!” delusion and we see where everyone is now. Certainly none of the R candidates ran on any positive or detailed effort to grow real jobs here.
Which brings us back to the original point — if the entire party has been a failure on multiple fronts (especially the economy) and do not present any real ideas on remedying that failure, then why would you expect that voters would still vote for that party?
The dems refused to deal with the health care costs which drove the auto industry out of Delaware. The reason is simple the Delaware Public Policy Institute and its biggest lobby group Delaware State Chamber of Commerce line the legislature to make sure nothing changes in Delaware. I don’t think Markell will do much better as long as he keeps the lobbyists frothing at the legislature trough.
“Which brings us back to the original point — if the entire party has been a failure on multiple fronts (especially the economy) and do not present any real ideas on remedying that failure, then why would you expect that voters would still vote for that party?”
GOP failed nationally, but neither side presented any “real ideas” on fixing the economy.
As for Delaware, D’s have the Governor’s office and the Senate for quite a while with no ideas and no action on the economy, in fact, the Senate D’s even went as far as to scale back the BWW project from 300 turbines to 80. Those extra 220 turbines would have created more jobs for longer. But what the Hell, eh? We don’t need jobs OR clean energy in Delaware, do we?
Democrats failed in Delaware. They were rewarded for their failure by getting more control of the government in the state.
Nationally Democrats have had Congress for 2 years, now they have the Presidency and no excuses.
In Delaware Democrats have controlled the Governor’s office for 16 years and the Senate forever, now they have the House. Delaware Democrats also have no excuses.
The days of blaming Bush are coming to an end, now Democrats in Delaware and Nationally have to stand on their own merit. Good luck with that.
Democrats have the Senate in name only. No one will ever convince me that Thurman, Cooke, Venebles and DeLuca are Democrats. If they were, a lot more Democratic legislation would make it through both houses. Hell, the Senate Republicans from New Castle County are better Democrats than the downstate Dems and DeLuca.
but neither side presented any “real ideas” on fixing the economy.
Just because you didn’t want to hear any of those ideas doesn’t mean that they weren’t there. Nationally, they certainly were. And Jack Markell has an entire book of ideas.
But the days of blaming George Bush are NOT at an end. You neglect the fairly horrific R-caused recession the new administration is inheriting — and it is likely to last more than a year. Some of the fix to this recession is going to have to remediate some of the R failures, meaning deconstructing some of the structural ideology that’s been implemented. Every state in the union is going to be suffering for awhile and it is worse for states since they (mostly) don’t allow for deficit spending. Even Arnold in California is proposing new taxes to make up the shortfalls. And every state in the union will be suffering as a direct result of cherished and quite failed R economic policy.
Delaware Dems certainly have their problems, but they also have new leadership that fought its way though the usual suspects to get there. He has a very different board to play on, but it is the Rs that are being chased out of office. So perhaps most voters are wrong. But when you are lead by a team whose most serious policy proposal was the creation of DN and REC (with the concomitant growth of government that will require) and one of your Great Hopes was running a stealth Christian Nationalist campaign, the people you need to be angry at are all on your side.
You still have to earn votes to get into office and not just stand on the sidelines and bitch about what is not being done. Good luck with that!
I think that P.I. is quite right, we apparently still have something of a Dixiecrat faction.
The dems refused to deal with the health care costs which drove the auto industry out of Delaware.
Dear Dope:
And after leaving Delaware, in what state did the auto industry relocate to to obtain better health care costs?
It is the national R’s who refused to deal with health care who drove the auto industry out of the USA.
“The fact that the automobile industry is crashing as is the banking industry (both industries that are hemorrhaging jobs here) is hardly the fault of RAM. No matter how much tax money you want her to throw at the closing plants, the fact that these automakers cannot sell the cars they make is not something that anyone in Delaware was going to fix.”
Not every state is suffering the same fate. In fact, Mississippi’s opening new manufacturing facilities on a regular basis. So don’t try to absolve this administration by pretending that there’s nothing that could have been done.
No one is saying that nothing could be done — only that there are portions of the economy that no Delaware Governor is going to control.
And yes, pretty much every state is losing jobs.
Yes, Toyota and Mercedes run profitable plants in this country, employing American workers and paying them high wages. Why can’t Detroit do the same?
Detroit has to start by building cars that people want to buy.
Because foreign auto plants prefer non-union work forces. Hence Mississippi. To which I would add that my American-built German nameplate is, except for the engine, a piece of scheiße.
The dems refused to deal with the health care costs which drove the auto industry out of Delaware. The reason is simple the Delaware Public Policy Institute and its biggest lobby group Delaware State Chamber of Commerce line the legislature to make sure nothing changes in Delaware
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BINGO
Awesome and concise. The state has to make that stand and not wait for a national solution.
The DE Lobby in Minner’s world is one of the many special interests that take the incumbent Delaware Way for granted.
Because foreign auto plants prefer non-union work forces. Hence Mississippi
Ther goes Al baming the Unions again what about
the Corporate elites who are ultimately responsible for the cars that are designed and if the government had made the corporations fully fund pensions and other bennies back when GM Chryseler and Ford were profitable say in the 80’s and what happened in the 80’s Ronald Reagan and and unlimited corporate greed where instead of preparing for the future the CEO’s [posted what amounted to false reports of high profits thus insuring themselves big bonuses stock options and obsene salaries by mis leading potental investors in stock to buy higher than the stock was probably worth meanwhile the Pension funds were left underfunded and close to bankruptsy and the corporation left with hugh unmanageable debt but this is all the fault of those greedy Union thugs Al Masitti you are a fraud
Anon#39. Sorry, Chrysler happened on the dem watch. The biggest reason they left was because of health care costs. Of course the auto industry never addressed the “big car” industry because they thought gas would forever be low cost. When it was apparent to everyone we didnt want those big cars and Toyota and others started building smaller cars and selling the hell out of them, big car industry still didnt get the message.
Most business in this country are going under because they can’t afford to pay the health care, pensions and give a 401K. Many of those car companies went to Mexico so they wouldnt have to pay health care.
Its a fact that labor told everyone that would listen it was “health care” that was driving them out. The dems still want to tinker around with health care, keep the for profit system rather than deal with the issue! In Delaware you can blame the De. Public Policy Insitute and the Del. State Chamber whose lobbyists convinced the legislators they should keep what the current system. Its the corporate interest, special interest model that corporate Delaware is protecting at the expense of our auto industry.