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Desperate White House Releases Schiff’s Memo
The White House, under pressure about Jared Kushner’s inability to get security clearance as well as facing questions about Trump’s half-assed ideas about school security, tried to change the subject Saturday afternoon by letting Democrats release a redacted version of their rebuttal to the infamous Nunes memo, which you’ll recall was the biggest dud since […]
Open Thread Feb. 24: The ‘Guns for Teachers’ Distraction
Be prepared: The Guns for Teachers proposal is polling close enough to 50-50 to make it the top choice for Republicans who don’t want to talk about banning military-style assault rifles. As political communications professor Dave Karpf of Rutgers says, “It’s a ridiculous proposal. It’s an unserious proposal. It’s an offensive proposal. And the thing […]
Dirtbag Dan Short Whines About Carney’s “Knee-Jerk” Reaction
House Minority Leader Dan Short is the latest Delaware politician to pretend to care about the public while in thrall to the gun lobby. He criticized Gov. Carney’s call for banning assault weapons. “We had a federal ban on assault weapons between 1994 and 2004. It proved ineffective.” No it didn’t, shitbag. Look it up. […]
Carney Runs to Catch Departing Train
Here’s how obvious the changing momentum on guns is: Gov. John Carney heard the “All aboard!” call and is now running to catch the train. He issued a statement today — sorry, no news conference in a state with no TV outlets — calling for Delaware lawmakers to ban “assault-style” weapons. “In the coming weeks, […]
Know Your Firearm Fondlers: State Sen. Anthony Delcollo
Of all the blood-soaked members of the General Assembly’s gun caucus, none is more odious that Anthony Delcollo, the little turd who defeated Patty Blevins for the 7th District Senate seat that runs from his native Marshallton in the south to Hercules Road in the north. He used a ton of gun money to do […]
Trey Paradee Shows How It’s Done, Donates Gun Money to Shooting Victims
State Rep. Trey Paradee, who’s running for Brian Bushweller’s District 17 Senate seat, took a bold step this morning, as he announced here at Delaware Liberal: “Earlier this morning, I personally donated $500 to the Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund. The Committee To Elect Paradee gave an additional $500 to the Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund. I […]
Open Thread Feb. 23: Nudists Forced to Run for Cover
Boy, was I fooled. For a while there I thought Delaware had entered the 21st century — not on time, mind you, but within the 5-to-10-year lag period it always takes Delaware to catch up with the rest of the East Coast. Then I read Kevin Ohlandt’s item at Exceptional Delaware about — gasp! — […]
Delaware Lawmakers With NRA and Gun Lobby Blood on Their Hands [Updated]
![Delaware Lawmakers With NRA and Gun Lobby Blood on Their Hands [Updated]](http://delawareliberal.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/07/327116539-Bethany_A_Hall_Long.jpg "Delaware Lawmakers With NRA and Gun Lobby Blood on Their Hands [Updated]")
I can’t swear this list is comprehensive, but I checked out the Department of Elections web site for campaign contributions. Going back to 2015, these are the Delaware politicians who took money from the NRA Political Victory Fund. The Democrats are right there at the top: D Pete Schwartzkopf: $250, 4/23/15 D Bethany Hall-Long: $350, […]
This Is What Flailing Looks Like [Updated]
The NRA wants you to know that mass shootings are “ratings gold” for the media. I made this same point last week. I pointed it out to argue that attention to the shooters encourages people whose obsessions run in that direction, and that we should avoid turning the killers into celebrities. I fully support wall-to-wall […]
Open Thread Feb. 22: Why Is Dumbbell Dave Lawson on the Joint Finance Committee?
Every day the Joint Finance Committee meets in Dover, the village of Marydel has to do without its idiot. The state’s Medicaid people told the JFC that this year’s budget is $754 million, down $6 million from last year, and Sen. Dave Lawson used the occasion to bitch that sick poor people “have no skin […]
Stable Genius Plan for Schools: “A Lot of People That’d Be Armed”
A surefire field sign for Doofus Americanus is his propensity to “solve” long-standing, complex problem with “ideas” that have been given about 5 minutes in the EZBake Oven of his intellect. If it’s a white man of limited intelligence, bingo! You’ve spotted the Orange-Crested Booby! “You’d have a lot of people that’d be armed, that’d […]
The Gun Nuts Are Losing This Time, and They Know It
The signs are all over the place, including the comments here at Delaware Liberal: The jig is up. The fields of public discourse have been spread with all the bullshit they will hold. Whenever the right-wingers get nervous they take it out on liberal blogs, the same way an ape feeling his position threatened will […]
Open Thread Feb. 21: Prying the Guns From Their Cold, Dead Souls
There is nothing Republicans won’t defile in defense of their indefensible worldview. The RWNJ propaganda machine is in full meltdown mode over how articulate and passionate those Florida high school students have been about ending the mobius strip of thoughts and prayers, to the point that they are seriously claiming they are “crisis actors”. Think […]
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