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Oct. 9 Open Thread: This Just In… Tom Carper Loves Big Pharma…That Is All
The State News looked into the anti-Carper full-page mailers attacking him for his Big Pharma ties. They found the Patients for Affordable Drugs Action but didn’t get a whole lot of answers about any kind of strategic connection among the group’s targets. They did find that the money comes from a Concerned Billionaire while the […]
Song of the Day 10/7: RIP Martyn Jerel Buchwald
Song of the Day would be remiss if it ignored the recent death of Martyn Jerel Buchwald, better known as Marty Balin, founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, the band that towed the banner of the San Francisco scene. His start in music came much earlier, though, and his career went through several permutations. First […]
Oct. 7 Open Thread: Mopping Up the Puke
America today is like Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale dorm bathroom: Vomit-stained as a result of a depraved display of privilege, power and irresponsibility. And though Democrats made it close for quite a while, some argue they dropped the ball by failing to react to Kavanaugh’s angry outbursts with any kind of real-time passion. Josh Marshall points […]
Oct. 5 Open Thread: Drunken, Lying, Privileged Partisan Hacks Are People, Too
I’m starting to wonder if the Republicans haven’t overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh. For a day or two they gained ground in polls by stoking the fires of white grievance, even stampeding the press and people who should know better (lookin’ at you, Nate Silver) into believing that Republicans were so angry about his […]
Coons Disparages FBI ‘Investigation,’ Heitkamp a ‘No’
From the New York Times, quoting Chris Coons after his turn reviewing the 1,000-page whitewash of Brett Kavanaugh: “The materials I just reviewed did not answer all of the questions that I have. And in some ways, I am left with more questions than answers.” Also, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent, announced […]
Scott Walker’s Crazy Train Pulls Into Lunatic Junction
What does a guy have to do to get himself committed for psychiatric evaluation these days? GOP congressional candidate Scott Walker seems determined to find out. I missed this when it came out a couple of days ago, but Walker, who has talked before about his problems with alcohol, took his cell phone into an […]
Flyers New Mascot ‘Gritty’ Goes Antifa
When Trump visited Philadelphia on Tuesday, he was greeted by about 100 protesters and a truly horrifying sight: Gritty, the new Flyers mascot, who has been adopted by Antifa forces in the city. The Liberation Project, a Philadelphia-based social justice group, said Gritty is inherently Antifa. “Gritty is a symbol of Philadelphia,” the group told […]
Oct. 4 Open Thread: That’s Justice Partisan Ratfucker to You
Knowing what he knows now, Donald Trump probably would have nominated someone other than Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. We know that from the Washington Post, which laid out how Kavanaugh is Don McGahn’s last act in the White House, and reports that Trump is furious (when is he not?) with McGahn for dropping […]
Did Coons’ Question Prompt Kavanaugh to Lie Under Oath?
Here’s a nugget from last week’s questioning of Brett Kavanaugh that I overlooked until I read William Saletan’s article asserting that, far from a “fishing expedition,” questions about Kavanaugh’s drinking cry out for investigation. Saletan uses this to buttress one of his points, but it’s worth emphasizing here: In the hearing, Sen. Chris Coons asked […]
A Recall Process for Electeds Belongs on General Assembly’s To-Do List
Delaware is the least small-d democratic state in the union, the only one in which citizens can neither vote directly on issues (referendum), introduce bills directly to the legislature (initiative) or recall lawmakers. The lack of referendum and initiative isn’t going to change, because lawmakers don’t want the hassle to interrupt their busy schedule of […]
Confidential to Anon
We’re not interested in anything you have to say. About 90% of what you have said is personal attacks; the other 10% doctrinaire Boy Libertarian bullshit. What you say is nothing unique, and we can find that almost anywhere, thanks all the same. This is not a forum open to anyone. I don’t invite people […]
Oct. 3 Open Thread: Stop the Presses, Trump Is a Tax Cheat
Raise your hand if you thought the Trump family fortune was achieved by following all tax laws to the letter. Yeah, thought so. Still, the New York Times deserves credit for investing thousands of man-hours to ferreting out all the ways the Trumps cheated the IRS, and for determining that the “$1 million loan” with […]
Oct. 1 Open Thread: Coons’ Pyrrhic Victory
So Chris Coons did all that for nothing. Republicans have made clear that they won’t actually investigate Kavanaugh, because if they did they couldn’t get him confirmed. They’re OK with that, having decided that the House is already lost but fighting for Kavanaugh will help the GOP’s chances of keeping the Senate. Expect the clamor […]
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