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Sunday Daily Delawhere [3.10.13]
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The St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Wilmington, usually held on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, from a few years ago. At the terminus of the parade route is a party held at St. Patrick’s Church, where the church serves beer to hundreds or parade-goers.
Saturday Daily Delawhere [3.9.13]
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We begin Irish week here at Daily Delawhere. My favorite Irish pub in Wilmington is at Catherine Rooney’s, on Delaware Avenue in Trolley Square.
Friday Open Thread [3.8.13]
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Yesterday, as I traveled the Pennsylvania mountainside, I listened to all the Rand Paul Filisbuster Aftermath, and I have to say, I contemplated driving myself off a mountain when I realized I agreed with Senators McCain and Graham in what they said in rebuking Paul. First, I must say that I enjoyed the filibuster if for the simple reason that it sparked a good debate on the Senate floor, it was basically theater, and it showed the country and these fucking cowardly traditionalists in the Senate how a good a talking filibuster, a real filibuster, can be. I hope Majority Leader Reid listens to his deputy, Dick Durbin, and revists filibuster reform today. Now. Make the talking filibuster the norm.
Now, back to McCain and Graham…..
Job Growth Surges
The economy in February added 236,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate dropping to 7.7% from 7.9%, the lowest the main rate has been since December 2008. The economy would have grown by 10,000 jobs more (246k) if austerity measures had not resulted in the loss of 10,000 public sector jobs. Hopefully the economy will continue to grow so that the impact of the Sequester spending cuts, which will not be overturned. Indeed, in my view, while the cuts are bad and dumb, they at least give the President a rejoinder to the idiocy from Boehner and McConnell whenever they or any Republican says “The President got his tax hikes (or new revenue).” We can say, “Yes, and you got your spending cuts. So if we don’t get any new revenue, you don’t get any new spending cuts. There, we can be petulant children too.”
Friday Daily Delawhere [3.8.13]
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This is St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, on Union Street in Wilmington. The church is the center of the Forty Acres neighborhood, which was settled by Irish immigrants in the 1860s through 1880s. St. Ann’s was built in 1887.
Thursday Daily Delawhere [3.7.13]
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Alexis I. DuPont built St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church, which is located on Old Church Road, near the intersection of Montchanin Road and Delaware Route 141 near Greenville. The church was built in 1841.
Wednesday Open Thread [3.6.13]
Marc Ambinder agrees with Jason that Jeb Bush will never be President (even though his moves this week clearly show that he is running):
“Bush is an ideal Republican presidential candidate. He has a national stature, an enviable record as governor, a solid temperament, and nothing significantly scandalous in his past. He is one of his party’s best voices on immigration. But he is a Bush. That’s going to be a problem. It’s not going to be an insurmountable problem, but the Republican base is definitely wary of the Bush brand and will not embrace him, no matter how hard he tacks to the right.”
It’s not the base that is weary of the Bush name. In fact, the GOP teabagging base loves them some George W. Bush. I am sure you have seen the billboards and the Facebook post with the Chimperor smiling and waving saying “Miss Me Yet?” The base loves Bush. What the base does not love is anyone that disagrees with them. And with Jeb Bush being a successful moderate Governor, that necessarily meant that he disagreed with the base over issues. Exhibit A was Immigration Reform, where until Monday, Bush was for a Path to Citizenship. Now he is not, all to appease the base, whose votes he needs in 2015 and 2016. It is the GOP Conundrum. Any candidate they have that is potentially a viable and attractive general election candidate cannot win the GOP nomination without abandoning that which made them a viable and attractive general election candidate.
Wednesday Daily Delawhere [3.6.13]
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A statue of Louis Redding, in front of the Louis Redding City/County Building on French Street in Wilmington.
Richard Forsten’s Response
I have decided to take down my previous post “Delaware is a small state” about a conversation overheard in a local restaurant about alleged plans to hack DL. Our tipster took a picture of the alleged plotter, and since I had no idea who it was, I posted it here in order to identify the man and dissuade the alleged hackers from attacking the site. The gentleman was identified at Richard Forsten by our readers and by other sources. Mr. Forsten then commented on the post, offering a response and, to my mind, a reasonable explanation to the overheard conversation. I am posting that response below and offering our apology.
Tuesday Open Thread–The Progressive Calendar [3.5.13]
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We have a lot of local progressive events coming up, and I wanted to use this open thread to highlight them. From the PDD meeting tomorrow on gun control (weather permitting) to a forum on Drones on Thursday, to a Delaware Death Penalty Repeal rally next Tuesday in Dover, to a Town Hall on Delaware’s Budget in Newark in two weeks and a panel debate on Governor Markell’s gun control legislation on March 19, the calendar is packed with interesting events.
Tuesday Daily Delawhere [3.5.13]
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The Wilmington Institute Library, on 10th Street across from Rodney Square in Wilmington. The library was built in 1923 with funds from Pierre S. DuPont. The library was meant to be one of the cornerstones of Rodney Square, along with the DuPont Building, City Hall and Courthouse, and Post Office.
Monday Open Thread [3.4.13]
Michael Kinsley chronicles how Republicans, and their affiliated media, are complaining “loudly about feeling bullied by their opponents.”
“Big, bad President Obama, creepy Harry Reid, that B-word Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the gang of toughs called the Democratic Party are picking on the poor defenseless GOP. As a campaigning theme, it seems insane. The GOP has long prospered by portraying Democrats as the wimps, dangerously weak and unfit for command. Does the name Michael Dukakis ring a bell? And in really heady moments, like 1984, when Reagan earned his second term, or 1994 and 2010, when sweeping victories in off-year elections seemed to foretell an imminent landslide, Republican fantasies of one-party rule involved the triumph of their party, not humiliation by the other side.”
“In fact, moaning about how weak you are compared with the opposition seems so obviously a political mistake that we can only reach one conclusion: This must be sincere.”
Remember, it is the bullies themselves that always cry loudest about being hit back.
The Polling Report [3.4.13]
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We have compiled polling results over the last couple of weeks to show you how much better President Obama and Congressional Democrats are polling compared to their Republican counterpart. Meanwhile, we have new polls out in dozens of Senate and Gubernatorial races in 2013 and 2014.
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