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The Open Thread for Friday, August 2, 2013
Republican governance, a contradiction in terms, or an oxymoron, reached a fever pitch this week as the GOP tried to wrap up the legislative calendar and pass some necessary appropriation bills before going on vacation. Of course they failed…
Jonathan Chait: “Yesterday, the House of Representatives pulled a bill from the floor for lack of votes — the sort of scrambling chaos that occurs routinely in the chamber where John Boehner presides like a trembling child monarch. But this defeat was different. The bill concerned the funding of housing and transportation programs, though its failure represented more than just a programmatic setback, or even a setback for the Republican economic strategy writ large, but the potential ruin of its entire posture toward Obama. Since taking control of the House two and a half years ago, Republicans have fomented a series of crises that seemed to have no end in sight, explicitly refusing to negotiate with Obama and implicitly denying his legitimacy as president. The crumbling of that wall is far from certain, but yesterday a wide crack opened up.”
Andrew Sullivan: “Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the current GOP’s refusal to do anything but propose to slash spending is that “propose” is all they really want to do. They cannot actually stomach the actual cuts their abstract ideology demands. And so what happened yesterday, when the House leadership suddenly yanked a bill slashing transportation and housing spending, is of a piece with the growing incoherence on the right.”
So now the House GOP has revealed to all that not only will they refuse to pass any Democratic budget or spending bill from the Senate, but they also cannot pass any Republican budget or spending bill of their own.
Around the Horn for the Week of July 26-August 1, 2013
Our weekly look at the other blogs in Delaware, of all political stripes.
Retired in Delaware has a message to all the gays who are upset that they do not have marriage equality yet in their states like we do in Delaware: either get to work to change that like we did in Delaware and stop crying, or move. Either way, shut up.
Elizabeth Scheinberg of the Children & Educators First blog has a post up about the Cape Henlopen School District’s recent controversy over offering an elective Bible in History course.
Pat Fish at Delaware Politics tells her story of going up against county government in a zoning and property dispute. Despite the site’s conservative civil war, and its conservative if not batshit politics, I think this story is universal, and it is amazing how similar to New Castle County Sussex County sounds like when it comes to coddling developers.
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The Open Thread for Thursday, August 1, 2013
You don’t realize how dependent, and how addicted, you are to the internet and email and just computer databases in general until the servers crash and you have no access to anything. That was me yesterday at work. No email. No internet. No computers. Well, we could turn on our computer and type something, but our network is set up in such a way that we could not print what we typed. So yesterday, my office was literally back in the 60’s and 70’s. We used an old typewriter for letters that had to go out.
Seriously, how was business conducted back then?
Anyway, thanks for Cass for picking up the ball I dropped.
Here is some polling goodness….
The Open Thread for Tuesday July 30, 2013
If immigration reform is going to get done, this is why:
“More than 100 Republican donors — many of them prominent names in their party’s establishment — sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday urging them to support an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws,” the New York Times reports.
But it will only get done if these donors not only threaten the withholding of their big money donations, but also start doing it. Defunding the RNC and other various Republican Party organizations and candidates is the only message Republican congressman will understand. Condemnations about their bigotry and racism doesn’t work because, in their circles and in their districts, their racism and bigotry are commonplace and not a source of shame. And they no longer care about losing all of the Latino vote since they have convinced themselves that they can somehow win all of the white vote.
44 and 45
Word is that Hillary is having lunch with Joe Biden today, after having lunch with the President yesterday. The combination of lunches tells me that she is informing them that she either is or is not running in 2016.
The Open Thread for Monday, July 29, 2013
A new Gallup Poll finds that if given the opportunity to vote on a law legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, the slight majority of Americans, 52%, say they would cast their vote in favor, while 43% would vote against it.
Now, that is a little misleading. The poll is not saying a majority of the respondents in all 50 states are in favor or marriage equality. What the poll is saying is a majority of the respondents across the country as a whole are in favor of marriage equality in all 50 states. Indeed, there is one region of this country were a majority of the respondents are bigoted and against equality. But even there, it is a bare majority. Can you guess where?
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