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Jake Tapper: “The Patriots Are Cheaters”
CNN’s Jake Tapper was interviewed on-air about his beloved Philadelphia Eagles, and he pulled no punches. “The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They’re a cheating team.”
Open Thread Jan. 23: How to Fold a Rat
So did Senate Democrats execute a simple, classic, cardboard-suitcase fold, or did Chuck Schumer craft some eleventy-dimensional origami? Lots of people are lamenting the seeming spinelessness, cursing the Gang of 30 as centrist appeasers. Digging deeper, some pundits claim this shifts the pressure to Trump. Some point out they had no choice because while the […]
Open Thread Jan. 22: Eagles and Catfights
As Philadelphia football fans continue chanting the longest word they’ve learned how to spell, life continues elsewhere, except in much of the federal government. The Jets and the Sharks in Congress couldn’t get their choreography together so now the whole government is shut down (suggested headline: This Bunghole Is Corked). You can’t swing a dead […]
Open Thread Jan. 20: Why Delaware Democrats Are Vulnerable
Want to know why Republicans in Delaware will have a chance in November, blue wave notwithstanding? Employment numbers. While growth has slowly but steadily improved nationally over the past two years, Delaware’s rate remains stagnant. No matter what happens elsewhere, that’s a problem the state’s ruling Democrats have resisted fixing. Of all the wounds inflicted […]
Lead Us, Bots, Into Temptation
As Puck noted on another thread, Twitter yesterday released the news that at least 50,000 Russian bots were tweeting about the U.S. election. To which I reply, so what? If Russian “interference” in the election amounts to nothing more than a handful of people at a troll farm pretending to be tens of thousands of […]
Open Thread Jan. 19: Dollars or Dreamers
Whatever else the government shutdown is about, it isn’t about saving money. Think tanks both liberal and conservative (well, libertarian, anyway) have run the numbers, and both found that expelling the 800,000 people who were illegally brought into the country as young children would cost at least $215 billion, according to the libertarian Cato Institute. […]
Here’s How Scared They Are
The defining characteristic of most modern politicians is cowardice. They are scared of everything, most especially the opinions of the people they supposedly serve. That’s in the best of times. In the worst of times — if, say, you’re a Republican Congressman in a suburban district that Trump lost to Hillary Clinton, as Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan […]
Open Thread Jan. 18: Let’s See His Girth Certificate
Politico sat down with Travelin’ Tom Carper to talk about infrastructure. He doesn’t say anything outrageous, but the story informs us, “Carper said he is not giving up hope that the parties could work together on infrastructure.” Yeah, that’s not news. Delaware Liberal readers weren’t the only ones to express doubts about the veracity of […]
Open Thread Jan. 17: No Tacos For You!
The folks who run the city of Dover have made a successful stand against the 21st century, killing plans to allow food trucks to park on downtown streets at lunchtime. Because nothing works to attract customers like the phrase, “You have no other choice.” From the Self-Fulfilling Prophecies file, psychiatrists had to cancel a panel […]
Open Thread Jan. 16: Would You Rather Live in a Hole or a House?
Turns out the guys who say Trump didn’t say “shithole” really meant that he said “shithouse” instead. Well, that’s much different. Never mind, then. The whole incident proves nothing beyond the fact that the Republican Party is now a cult of personality. Notice how similar this is to the “I/I’d have a good relationship” with […]
Lies, Liars and the Lying Liars Who Lie About Them Open Thread
As last Thursday recedes into the mists of time, what happened in that infamous immigration meeting gets murkier and murkier. Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue went from not remembering hearing it to being certain they didn’t hear it. Sen Lindsay Graham, credited by Durbin with confronting the tirade, says his memory has not evolved. […]
Open Thread Jan. 13: Tighty-Whitie Nationalist
I think Donald Trump wasted $130,000 if he really did pay off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about a relationship they had, according to the Wall Street Journal. Somebody pointed out on Twitter that bedding a porn star will boost Trump with his base even more than calling African countries shitholes will. Probably […]
Open Thread Jan. 12: Shithole Fallout
Maybe the mind is so shot that Donald Trump truly believes he didn’t call countries full of dark-skinned people “shitholes” yesterday. That’s certainly how he tried to play it today, claiming he has a “wonderful relationship with Haitians.” I’m guessing he employs some at his Florida properties — they work cheap. Sen. Dick Durbin put […]
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